What is Mdec?
1.
One of several centres of severe embarrassment to Royal Mail, employing teenagers and women to manually input address data that the very expensive mail sorting machine can't read. For the risk of running carpel tunnel syndrome and repetitive strain injury a small annual pittance is renumerated to these fortunates; with added benefits of no recognition, no reward and promotion only by bed hopping with unattractive male managers. If you would like the word DOORMAT tattooed on your head, then working at the MDEC would be an ideal employment opportunity for you.
This town is a shit hole, the only job I can find is at the MDEC.
2.
Manual Data Entry Centre. Royal Mail's idea of legalised slavery, paying sub-standard wages for a job that is no longer what was stated in the employees contract. Run by suit wearing gibbons, and run by the evil overlord, "two jags" peter "erm erm erm, i dont know anything" fenton.
3.
Manual Data Entry Centre. A massive office containing 500 data entry keyers, all keying addresses for the Royal Mail, enduring sub-standard wages/working conditions. Features include managers that walk around/watch everyone else work and seem to serve no purpose except to get paid a lot and do f*** all.
I can't believe i'm still working in the MDEC 1 year later, anyone would have thought i'd have a *proper* job by now.
4.
Hell on earth
the only thing I got out of this place was the drive to work for myself for the rest of my life.
A hellhole data entry centre that is populated by teenagers and useless managers, paid nearly twice as much as the people they make do all their work.
5.
A place where 95 percent of employees are happy to work in reasonably relaxed surroundings getting paid above average wages for the role with quite generous bonus incentives. 5 percent of employees attend to loaf, meet other loafers and take Royal Mail for a ride until their comeupance is due.
continually complaining with a negative defeatist attitude but know there is no better job out there where their lazy, tedious attitudes would be accepted.
6.
A place featuring the suffering of hell mixed with the mindless tedium of purgatory.
The minnions (or WGMs) are gernally fat greasy males or attractive young blondes who have bedded the fat greasy males, who patrol the area, strutting around looking important, and making sure that the mortals (or Keyers) keep looking at their screens at all times.
Common phrases often heard at MDEC are:
"You should be back keying by now" (meaning "you are 15 seconds late back from break and I'm trying to impose my authority. My God I'm so important.")
"Would you like to see your seeds?" ("You dared to make a mistake last week and I'm going to mull over it with you")
"Sick absence is still too high" ("We make you book your annual leave 18 months in advance and now you tell us you need a day off?")
"I quit" ("I quit")
The average "life-span" (the time it takes for a keyer to become so desparately bored with the job that they run out crying) is 18 months.
You don't want to work at the MDEC.
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7.
Contrary to what some of the imbeciles have already written, the MDEC is a decent working environment with a reasonable salary for what the job entails. Admittedly it isn't the best job in the world, but perhaps some of the losers that constantly criticise should get off their spineless arse and try and better themselves if they don't like it. The managers have a difficult job to do there, unfortunately some of these half-wits have no perspective on life other than their own miserable existence and fail to see how managers have to be able to help people, with personal as well as work-related issues and ensure that the business unit is performing. There are many keyers who have become managers having been developed and have acquired skills that are transferable in any management role. Managers even have to key when it is busy, even though they are not contracted to. All I would say is that there has hardly been any need for recruitment for the last 18 months, so people can't be leaving there in droves, can they?
The MDEC is a major Plymouth employer unfortunate enough to have a significant number of whingers on its books
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