An Post’s ‘rubber room’- An abuse of privilege

AN POST’S “rubber room” symbolises all that is dishonest and wrong about our public service and semi-state companies.

The “rubber room” is where managers who are “surplus” to requirements are deployed. Hidden away might be a better description. It is so called, a helpful union representative tells us, because “people were banging their heads off the walls because they were doing nothing”.

An An Post manager, a “rubber room” incumbent, has been awarded a bonus of €11,000 on top of his €95,000 salary despite doing little or nothing but marking time until he collected a bomb-proof, better-than-inflation pension.