AusPost job shares asking senior staff to double deliver

In addition to being Holgate’s general counsel and corporate secretary, Macdonald has been handed back Dalidakis’s general manager of corporate services duties, too.

This is a bit like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

The rapidly diminishing ranks in Christine Holgate’s inner sanctum means those still on her executive team are having to pull even more weight.

Just ask 18-year AusPost veteran Nick Macdonald.

On Monday, Margin Call revealed the shock resignation - effective immediately - of former Victorian Labor minister Phil Dalidakis as Holgate’s head of corporate services after just seven months in the gig.

Before Big Phil was appointed last June, the job was being temporarily filled by Holgate’s head lawyer Macdonald.

When Dalidakis joined, Macdonald got to hand the extra duties back.

But then in December, when AusPost company secretary Erin Kelly was made redundant (not long after she had returned from maternity leave), Macdonald was asked to take up that role too.

Now, in addition to being Holgate’s general counsel and corporate secretary, Macdonald has been handed back Dalidakis’s general manager of corporate services duties, too.

Might be time three-headed juggling hydra Macdonald asked for a payrise.

As for Dalidakis, who was celebrating his birthday on Tuesday, it was back to AusPost headquarters in the morning to say farewell, before heading off to look for a new job in the private sector - as far away from government, apparently, as he can get.

Meantime, when Post chief operating officer Bob Black heads off for six months in the middle of the year, his role will be taken over by a senior member of his existing team.

At least the toe cutters will be pleased.