Collingwood Board: Christine Holgate thrown under a Bus?

[eddiesmith]

Albo will be happy, he wanted action and got it

[K]

Huh? So quickly? They haven't even had the investigation.

[What'sinaname]

Holgate has resigned. She was thrown under a bus by Scotty from Marketing.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/fede ... 56ask.html

She wouldn't resign if she knew she was right. She knew she made an error.

She only need to blame herself for her complete lack of awareness of public accountability.

[K]

I'll be keeping my well-deserved Cartier watch.

WPT can keep his party-sized Kit Kat.


Cartier watches v Kit Kats. How about a better bonus for our posties?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/cartier ... 56c6u.html

"Back in November 2018, when Holgate gave four Cartier watches totalling $19,950 to four senior executive employees, you know what workers here received? A free party-sized Kit Kat with a motivational slogan that read: "Pause, Breathe, Reset". “There they were receiving super expensive wrist watches as gifts, and we got a bite-sized chocolate," my former postie, who did not want to be named, told me. "It was so insulting it was like an episode from The Office.”"

[David]

[stui magpie]

The world has been going made for years and is getting worse.

Seems like this particular one was started by a group of licenced PO's who were very happy with her as CEO.

BTW, I'd hardly call her "ultra rich" and even if she were, that doesn't excuse bullying. This is one case I would agree with WPT that Morrison got badly wrong.

[David]

But was she bullied, really? Morrison's intervention hardly qualifies, unless I'm missing something here.

[Tannin]

The arsehats who got rid of her deserve a good roasting. No question there.

However, she presided over a spectacular boondoggle using public money and should certainly have been sacked for it - her and quite a few others. As for her incredible stupidity in appearing before the parliament to explain it wearing a watch far more expensive than all four put together of the $5000 ones she gave away using public money, words fail me.

You are asked to explain giving away stupidly expensive watches, so you turn up in front of the inquiry flaunting an even more expensive one? Strewth! That's not "a tin ear", that's not "failing to read the room", that's just naked stupidity. There is an employee you'd want to supervise very carefully if you gave her a job sweeping floors.

[David]

[stui magpie]

But was she bullied, really? Morrison's intervention hardly qualifies, unless I'm missing something here.

Technically no, you're correct. Bullying is generally defined in different legislation as repeated unreasonable behaviour. Was still a shit act though.

The arsehats who got rid of her deserve a good roasting. No question there.

However, she presided over a spectacular boondoggle using public money and should certainly have been sacked for it -.

If the CEO of a Health Service did it, yes it's public money as it's taxes that have been allocated out. Australia Post is a Government owned business that generates it's own funding, so she didn't spend a cent of tax payers money and considering the amount of revenue those 4 had locked in for Aus Post, I don't think the watches were unreasonable.

By example, a woman whoe used to work for me, her husband worked for an electronics company, might have been Cannon, and every year he would win an all expenses paid trip for 2 to some place in Europe as a reward for performance.

Holgate's only crime was this incident being made public at a time when Morrison was happy to throw her under a bus as a distraction.

[Tannin]

It is the post office. I own it. So do you. That is public money up, down, or sideways.

someone who is so accustomed to extravagance that she has long since departed from any capacity to recognise how regular people live.

Yes. Exactly.

[stui magpie]

It's not public money.

Australia Post is a self funded Government Business Enterprise.

https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/ausp ... report.pdf

Giving 4 people reward and recognition to the value of $5k each should only be of concern to small minded people.

[5 from the wing on debut]

Apparently her employment contract allowed her to approve payments of up to $150k without seeking other approval, but the executive as a whole approved of the bonuses of $20k for the 4 watches.
Storm in a teacup. A $20k bonus in relation to $60m is insignificant and not remarkable in any way.

[David]

[Culprit]

After she smashed them in the Senate enquiry I expect Scotty's personal Photographer to busy for the next few days. Anyone who had/s Shares in Blackmores appreciates Holgate. The IPA/LNP needed her gone so they could sell Aus Post to their mates.