Most of these execs seem to be attending meetings with no knowledge of the subject, allegedly. If so why were they there and what were they being paid to do?
Oh dear another board director with absolutely no experience of such a role or any relevant business knowledge of retailing. The mind boggles! Who on earth approves these appointments. Sir Wynn this appears to me a major concern that needs to be addressed.
I agree. In a previous life working in John Lewis as a trainee manager, I soon picked up on the notion that a department manager is a department manager, and that product knowledge was largely irrelevant. I would largely agree with that in a department store context, however, the managers all new how to work the till, i.e., make that all important sale, if need be. Applying a similar notion to the managers, executives, board members and ministers overseeing PO activities, it is clear that some grass-roots, hands-on experience, or at very east curiosity, would have been revelatory. Apart from SPMs being bound to an unfair contract (the litigation seems more based on contractual responsibility to make-good losses than any compelling evidence of missing money - hence the push for false accounting rather than theft), their work was blighted, catastrophically in some cases, by a clunky, user-unfriendly accounting system. In short, such a disconnect between the movers and shakers, and those at grass-roots levels in an organisation, is potentially a recipe for disaster. Fortunately, the Post Office is pretty much unique in that it can (hopefully, soon to be could) prosecute its own, but this should be a wake-up call to those at the top that grass-roots lives also matter. Unfortunately, we have mainly seen lawyer coached defensive witnesses playing the don’t recall trump card, some paying lip service to their faults, and some issuing insincere apologies. At worst, we have seen incompetent, arrogant, and haughty characters, determined to distance themselves from the very real consequences of their lack of interest in the lives of the “little people” the exceptional (Sir) Allen Bates and a few other honourable campaigners never gave up on.
The main question to ask is what where you paid and how much recieved in bonus payments and when??
For the past 2 days my streaming has been odd… anyone else? The video is running fine but I get audio problems.. skipping words
Same here
@@martinphilcox Same here.
Most of these execs seem to be attending meetings with no knowledge of the subject, allegedly. If so why were they there and what were they being paid to do?
Oh dear another board director with absolutely no experience of such a role or any relevant business knowledge of retailing. The mind boggles! Who on earth approves these appointments. Sir Wynn this appears to me a major concern that needs to be addressed.
I agree. In a previous life working in John Lewis as a trainee manager, I soon picked up on the notion that a department manager is a department manager, and that product knowledge was largely irrelevant. I would largely agree with that in a department store context, however, the managers all new how to work the till, i.e., make that all important sale, if need be. Applying a similar notion to the managers, executives, board members and ministers overseeing PO activities, it is clear that some grass-roots, hands-on experience, or at very east curiosity, would have been revelatory.
Apart from SPMs being bound to an unfair contract (the litigation seems more based on contractual responsibility to make-good losses than any compelling evidence of missing money - hence the push for false accounting rather than theft), their work was blighted, catastrophically in some cases, by a clunky, user-unfriendly accounting system.
In short, such a disconnect between the movers and shakers, and those at grass-roots levels in an organisation, is potentially a recipe for disaster. Fortunately, the Post Office is pretty much unique in that it can (hopefully, soon to be could) prosecute its own, but this should be a wake-up call to those at the top that grass-roots lives also matter. Unfortunately, we have mainly seen lawyer coached defensive witnesses playing the don’t recall trump card, some paying lip service to their faults, and some issuing insincere apologies. At worst, we have seen incompetent, arrogant, and haughty characters, determined to distance themselves from the very real consequences of their lack of interest in the lives of the “little people” the exceptional (Sir) Allen Bates and a few other honourable campaigners never gave up on.
How these people earn six figure salaries with this ignorance and lack of intelligence! Mind boggling😢
Yes audible hiccups with words missing