POST OFFICE SCANDAL: Cringe moment ex-boss tries to defend only working '1 & half days a week' 

This guy is so arrogant and annoying! He's PROUD of himsef and lecturing all of us peasants about how wonderful he is. He's really the most offensive one of them all.

Well he thinks he's very special doesn't he.

Wow! The arrogance is astounding.

He's the worst I've seen so far in this sorry line up of entitled and privileged who think they are untouchable . Go to jail young Timothy.

He's so smug....he's behaving as if he's chairing this meeting

Arrogance personified.

What a complete arse. No wonder POL was run like a shipwreck.

He didn’t spend enough time to attempt to understand the biggest problem in POL’s history. What a tool!

I've listened to him today and he gives the air of finding the inquiry is beneath him

Wow! 208 days of work every 4 years. Wow! £5,000 per day of work. This country is messed up

Entitlement man as perfect example of the terrible class system in this world

Where on earth did they get these people from? It's been a steady parade of useless and dishonest employees from day one of this enquiry.

Jason Beer is truly a knight, which makes this Parker bloke truly a count (and I think I spelt that incorrectly !).

I think he deserves the most jail time.

Unbelievable arrogance ! Incredulous!!!

Paula Venells must pay back £2.2 Million she received in a bonus.......She failed 100%.

Joker! We should all become post office chairmen with chairmen wages!

The cheek of the man. He was arguing that his job was multi fascited. When pointed out to him that he was working very little he said Beer did,nt understand

Guy has absolutely no capacity as a human being - how on earth do these people get into these positions ??

waffle. That's how the post office is a mess

What makes an effective chair is overseeing the problems with the Post Office, 2 days a month would never cover that.

They are all so smug. What was his 1 1/2 day salary and when it was 2 days a month was the salary reduced?

Lock him up & a haircut

This guy sounds so laid back I´m surprised he is sat upright in his chair. How much did he get paid, five bob a week sounds like overpayment.

What the hell were they paying this weirdo for his precious time? Second, he should be in prison just for that haircut.

How effective can a Chairman be working 2 days a month? I reckon I would be able to tackle my job with high energy working 2 days in a month. Were they consecutive days? By the time he's spoken to his PA, ordered his coffee, rearranged his mail he will have used up his 1st hour....then there's lunch, was it a working lunch with employees or customers and how much of his day did that occupy? What time did he get into the office and at what time did he leave? Does he sound like a hard grafter to you?

Yet another high ranking PO employee who was hopelessly out their depth.

Totally unaccountable. Same as to all CEO'S of public companies. They should all lose pensions and bonus

I need to remind you there's a lot going on here. Which is why I worked 6 days a month and asked for a reduction to 2

On the information gleaned from this arse and aĺso from the horrendous Alice Perkins, what the chair of a business does is get paid and pass bits of paper around (you dont have to read the paper, just pass it on to someone else.) The only bit of paper you need to read is your payslip each month.

Lazy Barsteward

He is typical of what was wrong at PO.

Tim Palmer was deeply patronising to the point of offensiveness in the chair today. He appeared to have no clue that it wasn't just his tone that was sneering, but his body language - the leaning his knee on the desk as he answered one of Stein's questions at the end; the villainous smirks as he replied to Angela Patrick, Jo Hamilton's lawyer. He refused to answer simple questions with a Yes or No. He enjoyed the sound of his voice and being centre-stage. He patronised the entire court, but he'll probably be sitting at home with a glass of fine wine congratulating himself on a "bloody marvellous" performance whilst the rest of us wonder how in hell any of these people took on executive positions and try and find those clips where Beer put him right in his place (moments of golden genius - all done with a straight face)

Goodness Wurzel Gummage was certainly a revelation, completely and utterly out of touch with society and people. He’s known as the prince darkness due to the way he administered other companies by getting rid of people. I sat absolutely incredulous at his attitude - he resigned from post office two days before enquiry started!! Wurzel certainly wrecked the post office during his tenure😢

Why are people like him and there are quite a few of them that have been through this enquiry so far still in employment and seem to think this is a bit of a joke and a waste of their valuable time. Those at the coalface work dam hard for a hell of a lot less and are totally competent in the work they do with no handshakes.

Seems this superannuated Teddy Boy put more time and effort into his quiff than his responsibilities.

I cannot believe he has the barefaced cheek to say that he was an effective chair on one and a half days a week! INCREDIBLE! HOW DID HE GET AWAY WITH WORKING LIKE THIS ?!!! WHO SAYS THAT THIS IS OK?!!!!

This is the guy who screwed up the National Trust as well. It's a good job the Chairman of this Inquiry isn't just spending a couple of days a month at the job. A Chairman devotes as much time as required to the job.

How much was he paid for working 1 and a half days a week.

Total arrogance.

It gets worse and worse…..jaw dropping infact…….

two days a month ???? he should do a month in jail for every day he worked

Has this man a bigger ego than Everest?

How do you go sick if you're only there for 1.5 days a week.. You go off sick in your own time

He asked to work 2 days a month!!! Ffs

Paid how much for 1 1/2 days, and not learning how the post office works.

Me tbinks Mr Parker is a Smart Arse minus the "smart" ! Very up himself and believes in self absolution.

the hairdo will get targeted in prison

What was his pay packet for 1and half days a week ? Sounds like that was to much hard work ,so asked for it to be reduced to 2 days a month. It must be nice to be payed well and only have to work 2 days,month!

Worth 300 million chair of 5 companies at the time

His arrogance is quite extraordinary! he "spent time to understand the business" REALLY? - Gary

Full of himself this guy. Awful lot going on ..so very busy at the time I’m not a lawyer but I only worked a minimum of 1.5 days a week .. I gave it plenty of time, / days a month in fact! I had so much experience anyway, with capacity to understand business problems, I rebutt that, I was very active energetic in fact …

I am just completely dumbfounded. Bizarre and I agree with others this man needs jail time. This might, just might bring a glimmer of recognition that he, himself participated in the destruction of people lives. He should have an opportunity to mix with people not from his 'caste' while incarcerated, but he may need a long time to have this sink into his delusional brain.

Two days a month! He should have asked what he would have been paid for those two days.

Yet another who has been employed beyond their capabilities. Who appoints these people that allow lawlessness corruption and dishonesty to run rife through the post office. Not one of them at any point has done the right thing. Above all so many of these people remain in post office employment. STAGGERING.

He needs a couple of days a week for his coiffure and nails.

How did understanding the business allow this travesty of justice to happen?

I thought Lily Savage had come back to life He looks like a chair a wooden one

Pompous slime: still thinks he’s at the head of the table.. Meanwhile, Beer’s clipped, marvellously tongue-in-cheek “Thank you.”!

Not enough time , he’s passing the buck another thing never trust a man who wears a syrup , funny handshake brigade close racks , they all knew about horizon wasn’t working properly , letting those postmasters prosecuted some ending in prison

While the bar is extremely high, this man may well be the most despicable yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Incredible.

"Theres an awful lot of things going on and an awful amount of stuff that needs addressing. And that's precisely why I chose to dedicate a FULL 1 and half days per week to it". The poor lamb had to dedicate the rest of his week to his barnet.

PUBLIC OWNED COMPANIES MUST BE RUN EFFICIENTLY AND AS COST-EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE. IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE WAGES GET SOMEONE WHO DOES the public are ripped off with their TAXES AND DESERVE BETTER 2 days a month!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is he implying he was effective when we’ve seen months of testimony from incompetent employees, lawyers and contractors? I guess he thinks spending time reviewing criminal prosecutions and finding the causes was a distraction from his other duties. Dilusional.

How on earth was he allowed to work only one and a half day week for the salary he was on? He talks as a proper Civil Servant. Proper snob of a guy and cannot see any justification in him being questioned about anything that was wrong in the Post Office.

He wouldn't inspire confidence.

So 1½ days was too much for him? 2 days a month was enough to check his salary & expenses had been paid?

Postman - "I would like to work 2 days a month for the same salary." Post Office - "Don´t be ridiculous. No-one can do their job properly if they only work two days a month. You´re sacked!" Chairman of Post Office - "I have so much to understand, so many issues to deal with, so many people to build relationships with that I´d like to go from 6 days a month to two". Post Office - "Of course. No problem and here´s an enormous salary in appreciation of your hard work!"

He could not be effective in any way shape or form keeping n touch with 'everything that was going on in the PO'.

The words bell and end spring to mind

What a sick world we live in when you look at him what a waste of Space

I think a lot of people would like to work 2 days a month for their remuneration , but I’m sure a company wouldn’t survive long

what a sleaze

Appalling arrogance & greed was obviously a requirement to be employed at a senior level in the Post Office ,throw in incompetence & it all adds up to the biggest scandal & injustice in British history costing millions & ruined lives

How much was he paid for 1&a half days a week?&who employed him😮

At the end of giving his evidence Tim unfortunately broke his arm patting himself on the back !

laughable ,how much was this imposter paid ?

Well, that was a word salad

Bet he spent more time spending the money than the one and a half days he supposedly worked. The “energetic” chair presided over a cover up. No escaping that fact. Maybe if he’d spent 2 and a half days he might have uncovered the crooks were not in the post offices but in the corporate building.

Well the tour de France is on and it's awash with the latest aero cycling helmets 🥴

What makes an effective chair...not employing him in the first place to be a chair, be it a CEO of a company or an Armchair which he comes across as being 🤷‍♀️

Is that a wig ?

I trust any company employing him now will realise he isn’t fit for purpose.

Very arrogant witness

He was so good at his part time job that nothing bad happened at the Post Office…errr, wait a minute…errr….

You would say it nobody else would say it

Soooo privileged.

Went on to work at National Trust and upset many of the volunteers

Also Chairman of The National Trust and look what's become of that once fantastic Trust.

He’s not mentioned his salary or hourly rate for his compensation package plus benefits……for the 1 1/2 days

He didn't much care for Mr Beer's questions on the amount of time he "worked" did he? After pointing out he had a massive workload at the Post Office which meant he couldn't focus on Horizon problems, Mr B revealed Mr Parker wanted to go to 2 days a month from 1 1/2 days a week. This former Chairman apparantly gets more done by reducing the time he works by 66%.

"It was just one of those things....small chuckle....that was what I was advised" Incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he had no way to consult another attorney????????????? Hands were just tied!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had no way to google the legal parameters of legal privilege!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These people just get worse and worse and worse!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really just bizarre!!!!!!!!!!!!1

He's got his head in the clouds.

Tim Parker tries to nonchalantly talk the whole scandal into the long grass. Mr 1½ days a week then Mr 2 days a month....no doudt having multiple other directorships running simultaneously.....and being paid perhaps for 2 days a month more than a hundred full time postmen or SPMs would earn in a year. Some would say he's a self serving useless parasite. .

I want this guy to tell my boss to pay me an extraordinary amount of money to work 2 days a month 😂😂😂😂😂

Great gig if you can get it but I suppose it depends on ‘what school’ you go to!

Only did the chair for 2 days per month! and how much was he paid per year ? ......

Two days a month is more than sufficient to get know the key personnel. Well, in his conniving mind it clearly is. What was his fee?

As he said he did 60 meetings a year which would take half a day, so that leaves one day. I take it half of that day was combing his mop while preening in the mirror, 2 hour lunch and day over as he likes to leave early.

I assume that he was non exec chairman, as chairmen usually are. Then that one and half days is more than the normal two days a month. Incidentally, it is incumbent on non execs to make themselves familiar with all aspects of the business.