Paula Vennell Post Office Enquiry

[Rontomuk]

Re: Paula Vennell Post Office Enquiry

So, what does your typical CEO do exactly to merit these vast sums so many of them earn?

Usually bankrupt the company and make you redundant.

[MacAdder]

Re: Paula Vennell Post Office Enquiry

She's a priest too ?

Good god

Probably why she keeps breaking down in tears the prospect of spending a lot of time in purgatory.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Probably why she keeps breaking down in tears the prospect of spending a lot of time in purgatory.

She's really getting on my tits now

[BLUETIT]

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She's really getting on my tits now

Bet yours are bigger than hers ?

[jon1959]

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Exactly, if she was genuinely unaware of all of the things that were going on, she was probably being paid a fortune to do a job that was well beyond her capabilities.

Paula Vennells, Post Office chief executive 2010-2019

Ms Vennells earned £5.1m during her time at the helm of the Post Office, peaking at £718,300 in 2018. That year her base salary was £253,800 and she earned £390,800 in bonuses (plus pensions and other benefits).

7 Apr 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-...her%20benefits).

[jon1959]

Re: Paula Vennell Post Office Enquiry

She's a priest too ?

Good god

Was in the running to become the third most powerful/influential person in the Church of England:

In January 2024, BBC News reported that Vennells had been shortlisted to become Bishop of London back in 2017, with two sources stating that the Archbishop of Canterbury himself had pushed her application and was regarded as a supporter of hers.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/paula-vennells-reduced-life-now-32860486

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Bet yours are bigger than hers ?

That's not in question

[bobh]

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This guy is going for the jugular.

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This guy is going for the jugular.

And to be fair the Welsh chair is giving her a chance and trying to ensure it's a due process

I think she's full of it but she's quick on her feet

[Vindec]

Re: Paula Vennell Post Office Enquiry

So, what does your typical CEO do exactly to merit these vast sums so many of them earn?

I don't think there is such a thing as a typical CEO job and can only speak from personal experience. In one of my jobs I worked for an organisation with about 3000 employees. Then the person at the top of the pyramid wouldn't have a clue what I was doing or who I was. What that person did is a mystery to me. When I worked for a smaller company with around 50 employees the CEO knew of everything. In the case of the Post Office there were around 60000 employees and I would not therefore have expected a CEO to get involved with the nitty gritty. That was the point I was making to reinforce my conclusion that Vennells was doubly culpable even though I think my minority opinion that she is putting up a reasonable defence of her untenable situation remains.

Perhaps you have a different experience although I fully expect you to disagree.

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Re: Paula Vennell Post Office Enquiry

I don't think there is such a thing as a typical CEO job and can only speak from personal experience. In one of my jobs I worked for an organisation with about 3000 employees. Then the person at the top of the pyramid wouldn't have a clue what I was doing or who I was. What that person did is a mystery to me. When I worked for a smaller company with around 50 employees the CEO knew of everything. In the case of the Post Office there were around 60000 employees and I would not therefore have expected a CEO to get involved with the nitty gritty. That was the point I was making to reinforce my conclusion that Vennells was doubly culpable even though I think my minority opinion that she is putting up a reasonable defence of her untenable situation remains.

Perhaps you have a different experience although I fully expect you to disagree.

She's quick on her feet

Is this enquiry able to lead to prosecutions ?

She's seems completely incompetent but is doing a good job of defending herself

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So, what does your typical CEO do exactly to merit these vast sums so many of them earn?

There's always going to be a better pay renumeration in the private sector

It's worrying when ceo of Caerphilly Council is alleged to be on 200k

Mind , the mental health charity also pay stonking amounts to the executives

[splott parker]

Re: Paula Vennell Post Office Enquiry

Paula Vennells, Post Office chief executive 2010-2019

Ms Vennells earned £5.1m during her time at the helm of the Post Office, peaking at £718,300 in 2018. That year her base salary was £253,800 and she earned £390,800 in bonuses (plus pensions and other benefits).

7 Apr 2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-...her%20benefits).

Let’s start a Go Fund me page. It’s only fair.

[Cleve van Leef]

Re: Paula Vennell Post Office Enquiry

I don't think there is such a thing as a typical CEO job and can only speak from personal experience. In one of my jobs I worked for an organisation with about 3000 employees. Then the person at the top of the pyramid wouldn't have a clue what I was doing or who I was. What that person did is a mystery to me. When I worked for a smaller company with around 50 employees the CEO knew of everything. In the case of the Post Office there were around 60000 employees and I would not therefore have expected a CEO to get involved with the nitty gritty. That was the point I was making to reinforce my conclusion that Vennells was doubly culpable even though I think my minority opinion that she is putting up a reasonable defence of her untenable situation remains.

Perhaps you have a different experience although I fully expect you to disagree.

Don’t think the Horizon software problems, the prosecuting of sub-postmasters could be described as the “nitty gritty”. She was in all probability completely aware of what was going on..

[Vindec]

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The nitty gritty to which I was referring was to do with the fact she was arranging meetings, deciding who should attend and the fact she took ownership of some of the minute details and not the entire Horizon problem to which she has to be involved. Of course she should have been involved with decisions relating to the prosecutions but that is not the point I was making.