As Lin Homer walks away with a £2.174million pension pot (lifetime allowances anyone?) we should not be too envious as, according to HMRC:
"Her pension is actuarially-reduced, because she is leaving before retirement age. She is receiving no severance compensation.”Additionally, as and when she starts to look for work again after a summer break, she will try not to take a "revolving door" type role:
"I will be fully sensitive to the responsibility and care that senior HMRC officials should take when considering the appropriateness of potential roles and organisations."That's fine then, because no other ex senior HMRC has ever taken up a "revolving door" role!
In the meantime, I did try to call her to congratulate her. Unfortunately there is at least a 45 minute waiting time on the lines, and were I to send her a congratulatory card it would not be opened until after she had left.
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As Cameroon said;
ReplyDelete'We are all in this together'.
Indeed! The awards system was well in disrepute before this farce and insult to all was bestowed upon her.
Time will tell, what she says vs. what she does?
Odds on, an appointment to one of what has reduced to The Big Four (see Wiki.)
Civil Service, Head of Change Management or similar?
ReplyDeleteWhy not? Steve LAMEy is back in the CS fold on some bull consultancy gig. Remember how he was?
DeleteWorth every penny? A disgrace. If i want yo leave i have to wait years ro claim a reduced pittance that may buy a sandwich?
ReplyDeleteWe have to do work we know feck all about with no training with offices closing further to travel more expense for a reducing salary. While she can sit on a private yacht sipping pimms in the sun reflecting on the legacy she has left us. No she wont think about it, while we sort the mess thats left. Disgusting.
Hope she does a Maxwell on that yacht. Vile woman.
DeleteA Dame in the honours list and over 2 million in her pension pot, it's alright for some. Meanwhile after 35 years, a promotion and good annual reports I can look forward to being on minimum wage in a few years. Thank you so much HMRC you're such a great modern employer.
DeleteHomer afloat? Sail or power?
ReplyDeleteDas Boote?
Group up, full ahead, load tubes 1 - 4, open bow doors, full spread, on my mark................
You forgot to flood the tubes, bully the crew and shag the XO.
DeleteNine mine uberleiutenant, ze toobs ver already flooded, ozerwise de meckanicksism vil not fire ze fishy's, Dumbkopf!
DeleteIn addition, the crew were already bullied and I would not shag the XO with yours...
Up scope!
Fuck me! Laugh? I almost worked at HMRC once....
DeleteThe latest rumours re redundancy packages in my office are that we are looking at a possible 6 months wages - has anyone else heard/know anything this? It will either be that or a move to UTC?
ReplyDeleteI know 3 people currently off sick with stress, health related issues and it's only going to get worse, as many others on here have said...
HMRC staff have been shaking their heads in utter disbelief at the decision to make this woman a dame BUT on the other hand the news about her "jumping" ship has not been a shock or surprise to the majority.The feeling is that the majority of HMRC staff have treated her with the contempt that she fankly deserves. The changes that she has overseen (staff/pay/terms&conditions,working practices,etc) have left staff totally disillusioned and let down by her and her "top table" cohorts. There have been lunatics running the asylum for years now.It's time that they were all dismissed and carted away for the good of all HMRC staff AND the country.
ReplyDeleteThis imbecile has done exactly what they wanted her to do...run the public sector into the ground....and they dont give a fuck....we are cannon fodder!!!
DeleteHomer's Pension Pot - should have restricted her leaving present to Homer's Piss Pot
ReplyDeleteFunny really. As Homer shrunk HMRC to 60,000 she grew the Senior[un]Civil Service number to 420. That is more than DWP who are twice our size. At 85k or more p.a. a go basic wage - say 110k p.a. total unit cost that's over 46 million a year to maintain her power base as most of these lot do nothing except squabble with each other. And they moan about size of the Queens staff? wtf? Think what you want about your supposed legacy Lin, 60,000 of us truly revile you and what you did.I doubt the general public thinks much better.
ReplyDeleteHey Lin. Why don't you go marry Fred The Shred? Only public relations disaster you haven't committed.
DeleteShould someone who did such a bad job as CEO of HMRC (and previous public sector role at Birmingham City Council) and who ruined the careers and lives of many staff via the bullying which she endorsed, have been made a Dame??? What justification was there for it??? Fred Goodwin lost his knighthood for much less; this really does need looking at as it undermines the honours system for the deserving people who should get every recognition!!!
DeleteUnfortunately making an absolute mess as a senior mandarin gets you promoted or a gong. Can't possibly admit the Eaton boys made a bad call on appointing someone. Shambles of a career though.
DeleteHey bigamy might do the trick if she doesn't divorce first?
ReplyDeleteThe awarding of honours to anyone who brings the system into disrepute would be a matter for the Honours Forfeiture Committee.
ReplyDeletePity there wasn't a cooling off period on gongs or Her Majesty could have reviewed this decision for what it was. The Civil Service equivalent of PPI selling.
ReplyDeleteLin Homer is the least deserving person to have ever been made a Dame. When one considers World Cup 1966 winners were not all given knighthoods, and others who have spent their lives voluntary working for the community good & frontline emergency service personnel etc etc have been overlooked for honours, this really did, and does, bring the system into disrepute. IF she had any common decency Homer would have turned down that part of her generous taxpayer funded severance package.
DeleteDoesn't it just cheer you up when you get up at 5am to do a day's hard graft to fund the TAXPAYER funded gold-plated pension of a useless incompetent who achieved nothing in her career other than to cause chaos???
ReplyDeleteIf HMRC staff witness, or are victim to, misconduct/corruption, then of course it is their duty to do the right thing and report it.
ReplyDeleteI blew the whistle on issues around bullying, discrimination and the criminal law-breaking of one manager.
HMRC saw fit to cover it all up. Even when confronted with compelling evidence, HMRC believed it was their perfect right to construct a dishonest, false narrative. Their blatant deception even extends to creating false documents to collaborate their narrative.
HMRC's behaviour can be described as nothing less than threatening and brutal. They will go all out to crush truth tellers and persecute the whistle blowers.
It is always the right to stand up to such corrupt thugs, however I cannot tell people it is safe to do so. The way the psychopaths persecuted me was absolute psychological torture and they clearly had sinister motives.
I was left broken and suicidal. They don't care about that. It's a 'we will do as we like' culture at HMRC and they will not hesitate to unleash the full, cowardly, force of their inhumanity on those who attempt to stand up to them.
There are clearly governance issues within HMRC, which nobody is getting to grips with. The way they bully staff is horrendous but what will shock taxpayers is how adept HMRC are at telling lies.
How can taxpayers trust anything they do or say?