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Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - Lilith7 - 23-05-2024 The Reverend Paula Vennells finally appears in court over the disaster with Brit Post offices. Some people committed suicide, some were sent to prison. She doesn't appear to understand either the harm done or contrition. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/rev-paula-vennells-innocent-subpostmasters-jail-post-office-ceo-victims Quote:The former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells would like the victims of the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history to know that she hasn’t actually done anything deliberately wrong, and that she honestly doesn’t understand how all this has happened. I guess she’s asking all the jailed and wrongly convicted subpostmasters to try to imagine being swept up in a Kafkaesque nightmare of undue blame. So … please add the murder of irony to her notional future charge sheet. RE: Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - harm_less - 23-05-2024 Paula Vennells was portrayed as a heartless corporately minded POS in the dramatisation of the situation and it would seem they had her characterisation spot on. RE: Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - Lilith7 - 23-05-2024 (23-05-2024, 12:53 PM)harm_less Wrote: Paula Vennells was portrayed as a heartless corporately minded POS in the dramatisation of the situation and it would seem they had her characterisation spot on. It certainly seems so - difficult to understand someone like that. You have to wonder whether they're genuinely incapable of understanding - which surely would mean a complete lack of empathy, & indicating sociopathy - or doing an excellent job of pretending not to care. RE: Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - Lilith7 - 25-05-2024 And now it seems she's blaming everyone else. How unsurprising. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/24/paula-vennells-names-five-executives-she-blames-over-post-office-scandal Quote:Paula Vennells, the former Post Office chief executive, has named five executives who she said were to blame for the Horizon scandal, including a missing IT expert and a former in-house lawyer who has refused to appear at the public inquiry. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11e45n3p5o Quote:The room was packed with people, including many former sub-postmasters. RE: Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - zqwerty - 25-05-2024 What a mess, brought on by people believing that computing machines and in particular software is infallible plus a good helping of management and middle-management incompetence and ignorance plus a lack of empathy and caring for fellow human beings plus possible maliciousness/greed amongst unknown persons with fingers on keyboards through remote access. RE: Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - Lilith7 - 25-05-2024 (25-05-2024, 01:27 PM)zqwerty Wrote: What a mess, brought on by people believing that computing machines and in particular software is infallible plus a good helping of management and middle-management incompetence and ignorance plus a lack of empathy and caring for fellow human beings plus possible maliciousness/greed amongst unknown persons with fingers on keyboards through remote access. And its amazing that it was allowed to continue for so long too, when it must have been apparent that something was badly wrong. RE: Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - harm_less - 25-05-2024 And Paula Vennells has been stripped of her CBE https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68384240 RE: Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - Oh_hunnihunni - 26-05-2024 I bet though, she will never take on the idea she was in the wrong. Sometimes we human beings simply cannot step out of our own created reality to 'see ourselves as others see us'. Probably just as well, in some cases. The shock would be shattering. RE: Reverend Vennells, of the Post Office disaster - Lilith7 - 26-05-2024 (26-05-2024, 08:27 AM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I bet though, she will never take on the idea she was in the wrong. Sometimes we human beings simply cannot step out of our own created reality to 'see ourselves as others see us'. It must have been difficult for her to hand it back, & you have to wonder how she managed to justify that to herself. I hope all those affected by this will be properly compensated, preferably very soon. |