david putman 🚐 vw T6.1

coding since the early 1980s, training and coaching coders and managers since the early 1990s. Married to Gaynor

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Tips for Paula Vennels today from your colleagues so far:
No 7: Always refer to the issues as "Horizon" issues, especially when giving an 'apology' i.e. I'm sorry for the problems that Horizon has caused.
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Tips for Paula Vennels today from your colleagues so far:
No 6: Oh, and don't forget answering a different question or just talking about random stuff.
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Tips for Paula Vennels today from your colleagues so far:
No 5: Volunteer information about how the inquiry has negatively affected you personally
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Tips for Paula Vennels today from your colleagues so far:
No 4: When cornered, start your sentences with "so..."
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Tips for Paula Vennels today from your colleagues so far:
No 3: Respond immediately and enthusiastically, remembering all of the detail, when someone else was obviously at fault.
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Tips for Paula Vennels today from your colleagues so far:
No 2: Pretend someone else was responsible for the detail and play down your role as supervisor.
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Tips for Paula Vennels today from your colleagues so far:
No 1: Pretend you don't remember anything at all it was so long ago.
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

I'm stunned that a member of the Post Office executive team has actually made a proper apology for their own past behaviour. Whatever it turns out he is culpable for, kudos to Alisdair Cameron, for making a proper apology and accepting responsibility for his actions, or lack of.

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Anyone that believes that computer software is inherently reliable has obviously not spent more than a week in Software Development.
#PostOfficeInquiry #PostOfficeScandal #softwaredevelopment #SoftwareEngineering

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

"I have no direct recollection of the case but that's not the reason she was aqcuitted, the judge definitely didn't say that the Post Office case had been a sham and I remember the jury was out for a long time"
#PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

"The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of a superior does not relieve them from responsibility. "
#NurembergDefence
#PostOfficeInquiry
#PostOfficeScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

A good indication of the type of people employed by the Post Office.
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry
BBC News - Post Office investigator says cleared sub-postmaster was guilty
https://t.co/LV2oeEQ1Hg

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Post office investigator uses the Nuremberg defence.
BBC News - Post Office: I was only doing my job, says investigator
https://t.co/xL8RFgrc9I
#PostOfficeScandal
#PostOfficeInquiry

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

"I was only doing my job, " said the investigator that didn't investigate but prosecuted anyway.
#postof

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Fujitsu boss describes Post Office behaviour as 'shameful and appalling' https://t.co/hY2GFrUyhB and appalling via @computerweekly

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

"I was just following orders" has now officially been superced by "this would've been handled by people more senior than me"
#PostOffceScandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Let's be clear. This is not a 'miscarriage of justice' this is a series of deliberate criminal activities in pursuit of financial gain.
#postofficescandal

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Wow! That's some reality distortion field they have at the post office

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

I love the way the Post Office's corporate website calls it, "The Horizon IT Scandal" and the "Horizon IT Public Inquiry"
They still don't get it do they?
https://t.co/BHNa4Oiutn

[david putman 🚐 vw T6.1 @davidputmanUK]

Fraudulently prosecuting innocent subpostmasters enabled the Post Office investigations team to steal the PO's reputation and integrity in pursuit of bonuses