Crown Transformation - Cat's Out Of The Bag...

[billyhayes]

Then I hope to see him walk past my picket line in the coming weeks, supporting all his overpaid, underworked strikebreaking managers on the counter.

[The BFO]

Thank you Richard.

This is the real Mc Coy folks.

Subbie

Is ‘subbie’ a pseudonym for Mrs Barker?

[rwbarker]

I think you should leave Mrs Barker out of this - she has enough to put up with living with me, without getting abuse on here. Still very happy to discuss pay (or anything else for that matter) but not on public forum. Administrator saw fit to remove my 'phone number (but left the personal abuse, I note). Mobile number is easily found on intranet. Richard

[BELIAL]

For the benefit of Claire 1.9 - and anyone who reads her post - in common with other senior managers inthe Royal Mail Group, I have not had a pay rise for the last two years. Richard

I know it's not polite, but just in the interest of furthering the debate ,would you be prepared to let all know what your basic salary plus bonus amounts to I'm sure you have nothing to hide and can justify all remuneration,but it might add perspective,don't you think

Still very happy to discuss pay (or anything else for that matter) but not on public forum.

Is your salary not on public record then ?
Fair enough you choose to with hold detailed info. , but just to put your initial statement in context and in the interest of advancing the discussion you could answer 1 general question
Is your salary closest to ;
A) £80 K
B) £100 K
C) £120 K
D) £ 167.5 K

[rwbarker]

Don't understand this obsession with my salary.

[kathleen1]

I haven't got an obsession with your salary, i couldn't care less, but don't try and cut my wage by £5k and everyone else in the crown office network when you and your cronies are filling your boots with £3.9million bonuses you arrogant man!!!!

[BELIAL]

Don't understand this obsession with my salary.

I do understand your not understanding ,but bare with me. When you claim

in common with other senior managers inthe Royal Mail Group, I have not had a pay rise for the last two years. Richard

It may well be true and honest (leaving out your pension accruements ,of course), but a pay freeze on £160k will not be half as painful as a pay freeze on £ 8-£16K. Take a drop to £16K ,that will give you a better insight into the day to day business operation,Knowledge is inconvenient ?

[POSTMAN]

I think you should leave Mrs Barker out of this - she has enough to put up with living with me, without getting abuse on here. Still very happy to discuss pay (or anything else for that matter) but not on public forum. Administrator saw fit to remove my 'phone number (but left the personal abuse, I note). Mobile number is easily found on intranet. Richard

Just send the email,it aint that hard is it.

[The BFO]

Don't understand this obsession with my salary.

There are a couple of things I don’t understand:

1. How a senior leader can be so out of touch with his front line subordinates and the actual business they conduct.
2. Why said person should make himself known on this forum, be so obsessed with proving his identity, and then make no worthwhile contribution whatsoever.

[rwbarker]

It's not me that's obsessed with my identity!! It's everyone else wanting me to prove it.

Stupidly, I thought this forum might be a place where there would be some serious and possibly thoughful debate about some of the issues we all face.

Clearly I was wrong. I won't waste my time any further.

Richard

[The BFO]

It's not me that's obsessed with my identity!! It's everyone else wanting me to prove it.

Stupidly, I thought this forum might be a place where there would be some serious and possibly thoughful debate about some of the issues we all face.

Clearly I was wrong. I won't waste my time any further.

Richard

There are many arguments in our favour, amongst them:

1. Who says we should make a profit, and what about the social need of the service we offer? Is the National Health Service profitable?
2. If you accept that Crown Offices should be run on purely commercial lines, then how is ‘Income’ attributed, and is it done so appropriately – the obvious example being the difference in Travel Money Margins, and the ‘Income’ attributed to the Branch. There are other questionable items in this regard.
3. Further, if we are not to be credited fully for our ‘Social Role’ then why do we continue servicing the needs of the ‘Financially Less Sophisticated’, and less able in society?
4. Why should we pay the price for mismanagement? We all see daily huge waste, caused by poor direction.
5. Ms Vennells cites wide disparity in Throughputs across Crown Offices, and implies this is our problem, when clearly Senior Management has failed to keep this under control.

I did ask before...

[Barkers Boy]

Please Please leave dear old Richard alone,can't you see how upset this is making him,he is so lovely and cuddly.

[POSTMAN]

It's not me that's obsessed with my identity!! It's everyone else wanting me to prove it.

Stupidly, I thought this forum might be a place where there would be some serious and possibly thoughful debate about some of the issues we all face.

Clearly I was wrong. I won't waste my time any further.

Richard

Look,you can't come on here and claim to be someone and not confirm it.
You could be anyone.
You can have serious discussions on here but you could be the cleaner from some PO.
No offence to cleaners btw.

Now get real and prove who you are,so the guys on here can talk to you accordingly.
It aint hard is it!

[POSTMAN]

It's not me that's obsessed with my identity!! It's everyone else wanting me to prove it.

Stupidly, I thought this forum might be a place where there would be some serious and possibly thoughful debate about some of the issues we all face.

Clearly I was wrong. I won't waste my time any further.

Richard

Look,you can't come on here and claim to be someone and not confirm it.
You could be anyone.
You can have serious discussions on here but you could be the cleaner from some PO.
No offence to cleaners btw.

Now get real and prove who you are,so the guys on here can talk to you accordingly.
It aint hard is it!

Ok people,it has been confirmed,he is the real Richard Barker.
Don't blow it,you now have your chance to question him directly.
And also please remember...

KNOWN PERSONALITIES WITHIN ROYAL MAIL AND THE CWU

It is fair to say that those in the 'top jobs' come in for a lot of criticism on this forum, please post constructive criticism and nothing else. Any libellous or slanderous posts will be deleted or amended, in no way should these personalities have any abuse aimed at them, period.

[subbie]

I told you.

Subbie