OPTUS BEEF !
My Chance now...
Every month, I'll be in here unleashing a torrent of anger upon some
Optus dogma. Any other info I think you might need to know, I'll put in
here too.
SEPTEMBER:
Well it’s the second month of Optus Beef and we’re going along
nicely. Thanks to all those who sent in there mails to us, you’re support
is why we’re here!
RESOURCE PLANNING
Can anyone tell me, was there ever a need for this department and the
people working in it?
I can understand the need for one or two people to be handling issues
relating to staffing levels and what is coming and going, but with the way
things are now, why the hell are even those two here?
I do not think there is one person left within Optus who likes the way
the shifts are now. It was understood by all of us that we would be doing
shift work, and that was one of the parts of the job.
But is it really necessary to have people working more than 50% of their
weekends and a huge number of their nights in this place?
We do like to have lives too, and the stress this sort of employment
is taking on the staff is completely ignored. Relationships suffer, people
find themselves increasingly isolated from their lives because all they
do is work, sleep or have time off with no one else as their friends/spouses/partners
are working.
Resource planning don’t even get the rosters out on time. Struggling
to organise any time we can with people we want to see, the stress is compounded
when we don’t know what we’ll be working the following week.
Yes we know that the agreement is signed by us saying that the least
number of days required for notification is 7 days. But if Optus was serious
about treating their staff properly, they would realise how hard it is trying
to have a life when you don’t know what you’ll be doing in seven
days.
So what do resource Planning do? Stuff around doing god knows what and
ensuring that none of us know what is going on in our lives. It’s nice
and easy for those of us who get to work 9-5 weekdays, but try it our way
sometime.
One week of putting up with what happens to us, I’m sure they’d
be working like they are mean to be.
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