When it's not right to be wrong

For more than a year now, I've tried very hard, with the very able assistance of Bob, to understand the way you humans act and think. Sadly, and probably because I'm a frog and therefore, not human, I'm fighting an incredible losing battle. Croak!!!

Bob told me that during his younger years, life was frequently made all the more harsh by the actions of a few selfish groups of people. Those were, he assures me, the days when strikes in the workplace were all too numerous and quite often frequent. Although many years have passed since that time, a time when humans should have learned by their mistakes, some of you are at it yet again. Croak!!!

This time, the postal workers are up in arms trying to get a better, and perhaps more fairer deal, from those who call themselves their bosses. Now, whilst I understand what they are trying to achieve for themselves, history has shown and proven time and time again that strike action simply doesn't work. The media tells everyone that the post office is losing millions, which is probably another way of saying that it has a crap service.(I bet this sounds familiar?) Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I understand it right, bosses who can't make a business work for itself, well... they don't deserve their jobs. After all, would you employ someone like Adam Crozier, the PO's Chief Exec, if that person was losing your business millions? Too damned right you wouldn't! It's time that the PO got someone who can do the job properly. Croak!!!

Further, those postal workers who are on strike, are they really sorry for disrupting your lives? After all, it's the customer who pays their wages, so why do these PO workers persecute everyone else just to get their revenge on their bosses? Perhaps it's that they think it's great to ruin other people's lives, just because their own is quickly going down the pan? Let me tell you this: when you had your first strike early this year, Bob, along with thousands of others, switched their ability to draw their pensions from the PO, and now quite happily draw it from their bank accounts instead. You do something to the innocent customer and, like many people who are fed up with strikes that go nowhere except to inflict a lot of suffering, they have now retaliated by taking their custom elsewhere. Ribbit!!!

Bob says that he lives in the world of the computer and electronic mail, and since it's far quicker to send an email message than a message in an envelope via the PO, you lot can strike all you want. You don't care about what happens to his way of life, so, he doesn't give a toad's backside about yours either. Ribbit!!!

Don't forget what I've said, it's the customer and who pays your wages. If the PO loses its customers, and it is doing if the media has it right, it is you who will lose in the long run, not only your wages, but also your jobs. It'll cost you more to go on strike than you'll ever get back once it's all settled. Croak!!!

Look before you leap, stay safe and I'll be back with you all again real soon, Ribbit!!!

Froggy