Royal Mail

Polyhymnia

... or should I say 'Angard [STRIKE]stuffing[/STRIKE] staffing' ?

I've come on this forum to ascertain if I'm the only person to find them horribly incompetent and slow.

The story begins in May when I applied for a 12-month casual contract to work for Royal Mail. It seems that the casual thing works both ways as it took Angard stuffing a whole FOUR months to book me a document checking session.

It then took them a month to mail me a contract. (I shouldn't complain-at least it did not take another four months :mad:)

I promptly mailed the contract back and regularly contacted them to see if my application was problem free (yes it was probably annoying for them but I was desperate for this job ) I was assured that everything was hunky-dory and that I would be sent an ID through the post.

After a Month of phone calls I'm told that they never received my contract and that I would have to send another one; judging from their previous performance I'll probably start work in 2067 if they ever get this contract.

Does anyone else have a similar tale???

Lith

That's disgusting that,


I, applied for an xmas cas with Angard, got the text last week about my 6am till 2pm shift,


now its a waiting game on the actual start date.

Thanet62

Angard are probably the worst, most incompetent agency on the planet. If you want regular work, be paid on time and correctly for work done, be phoned for work by a withheld number don't get involved with them. If like me your desperate for work and got signed over to them having worked as a casual under Royal Mail then had your contract terminated accept its money for Christmas (but 16% less than last years Christmas pay) then look elsewhere.

custardy

this seems to be standard for Angard (which is actually Royal Mail)

fedster

Forgive my ignorance here, i just want to ascertain the facts, was Angard created as a way to get round the new Agency rules?

custardy

fedster wrote: »

Forgive my ignorance here, i just want to ascertain the facts, was Angard created as a way to get round the new Agency rules?

well I would imagine RM wanted control to ensure they could avoid them.

Thanet62

custardy wrote: »

well I would imagine RM wanted control to ensure they could avoid them.

Royal Mail already had a 12 week contract rule in place for casuals and at the end of each 12 week stint you had to take a two week break before a new contract was signed. Because Angard are "in house" the new rules don't apply and your on a 38 week contact but to be honest Angard are hopeless at giving any work out. Even now I am getting fed up seeing a race to get new casuals employed for Christmas whilst those of us already on Angards books are somehow ignored and already I have seen 2 weeks pass without a single shift.
Your just a body to them, Casual employees somehow count for nothing even with a years experience and a great and diligent work ethic, I am treated as a nothing....welcome to work 2011!

Polyhymnia

Thanks for the replies. I can honestly say that I share your pain.
It just beggars belief that in a time where there are so many, cutbacks, redundancies and competition, Angard staffing continues to exist.

custardy

Polyhymnia wrote: »

Thanks for the replies. I can honestly say that I share your pain.
It just beggars belief that in a time where there are so many, cutbacks, redundancies and competition, Angard staffing continues to exist.

continues? it was just created