The Poolie Bunker

According to an article in the Mail Council chiefs have admitted staff morale "isn't great" but stressed they are doing "everything we can" to improve matters while also highlighting the impact of negative social media posts.
The quote was from Denise McGuckin whose salary is £167000 a year, how can she improve matters,in my line of work it was either shape up or ship out unfortunately it’s very difficult to move people on where they know it’s very difficult to move them on.

If I was on 167k a year, I’m sure I could cope with any criticism…and wonder what I was getting criticised for.
Was the so called staff morale the morale of the top managers….there, there.

WTF.
So our extortion council tax goes on their huge wages while the greedy bastads charge us extra to dispose of brown bin garden waste.
Then they blame lack of government funding for cut backs.

Shirt n tie n blouse wearing burgling vermon.

Kin ell- 167k a year in Hartlepool - that's outrageous given the levels of deprivation suffered by the many. How could that possibly be justified?

I'll do it for 100k - and donate the other 67k to the food bank. I'd jack teaching in, and move the thick end of 200 mile in a heartbeat. I'll start AFTER Xmas!

stay where you are. i,d guess they,ll be paying more in northants where the average wage will be higher than in hartlepool.

Council sweat rarer than rocking horse shit.

Surely the cost to the taxpayer would still be £167k.

In 2019 6 employees of the council were on over £100000, those are the most up to date figures I can find.

That’ll be…..

1. The Director of Staples and Paper Clips.
2. Executive Imperial Officer of working at Home.
3. Supreme School Playtime Co-ordination Officer.
4. Inspector in Chief of Zebra Crossings.
5. Woke Co-ordinator of Nonsense and Bovine Excrement for Net Zero.
6. Bloke who makes the tea…..and does the the finance thingamebobs.

I couldn't have put it better Kev, Well I could but don't want to get sued!

Fair point Mr D- I'll just take the 100k for myself-l will probably be not far off the equivalent of 167k darn sarf.

Number 3 for me- as and when it's available!

Wonder how many of these top earners actually live in the town.

Gill Alexander C.E for 5 years on £160k plus a year left, the Rev. Gill Alexander, who was the serving chief executive of Hartlepool Borough Council, has joined the benefice of Haydon Bridge and Beltingham and Henshaw.

The total remuneration for the Chief Executive and six other senior manager posts came to £1,008,392 in 2019-20, up from £938,529 the previous year.

She was useless, that’s all I need to say.

just need to go to most towns in the country and see what the biggest and most fancy building there is there. the bloody council office/ town hall where money seemed no object when building them or a bigger replacement even if the population of that town lowers.

Boiled my piss when the Council closed the Grey Art Gallery Museum and turned it into Council Offices.

What do they actually do in the offices….

possibly a bit more than they did a few years ago when everyone had an assistant to an assistant working there. when i left school they seemed to be the biggest employer in my area with so many leaving getting jobs there in different departments. once it was regarded as an easy job, not that well paid but a job for life if you were willing to fill a dead mans shoes eventually by the time you were 50.

In 2024/25, the Council has an overall pay budget of £79.9m (excluding school staff) including on-costs for its workforce. It employs 2,044 people excluding those who are employed directly by schools in Hartlepool, in a variety of diverse roles.

School Staff, the one wage you were never allowed to know.

Haven't got a clue what department is based in there.

I hear a "rumour" that the council staff may be getting relocated to the old Binns building.
Apparently the Red Palace (Kremlin) is falling apart (like North Tees Hospital).

Anyone got an inside steer on this one

I was at meeting a few years ago when Drummond was the mayor he more or less stated then the place needed refurbished. I find it hard to believe a building which was only completed in the late 70s is falling to bits.