Hosta, yes I noticed his/her back feet seemed back to front. I have to assume they’re the right way round. I only usually see evidence of them when I find a hole dug into a large ant nest. They are what I called “anteaters” when I was a kid.
So the Boss of TSB stands down after the massive cock up affecting over 2,000,000 customers yet he still walks away with £1,700,000. Can anyone explain why he's being paid for this? Most of us in the real world would just get sacked.
As my old nan would say" it's the rich what gets the gravy it's the poor what get the blame!" i suppose the rich could pour the gravy on the grass to kill weeds!
I got asked to leave my job, because of ill health, no question of incompetence. It took me a year to sort out my pension, during this time I was paid nothing.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
recently , I think G4S lost contracts to run prisons because they'd "failed" yet we , the taxpayer had to pay THEM compensation. Surely , if they were in breach of contract, ie NOT running the prisons properly, THEY should have been sued for breach of contract and paid US , the taxpayers, compensation?
When most folk cock up, they get sacked, they don't get their salary paid until the end of the year though. Have I missed something?
Ah but he resigned, he wasn't sacked. The money is for working his notice (his annual salary was about £4m, I think I read somewhere). @punkdoc you presumably didn't employ quite such a whizz lawyer to draw up your personal contract when you took the job. Likewise the contracts that most of the big private companies sign to work for the government - they have extremely favourable terms regards termination of contract for any reason. When you employ a builder to do work on your house, you (if you're wise) have a contract which is based on a presumption they'll probably fail, so the terms are in your favour if they do. If the builder won't sign, you find someone else who will. The government always goes for minimum price. There aren't many companies in the world able to take on a prison contract or the PFI contract for a district hospital. A sensible contract with 'normal' terms would cost a lot more, because the half dozen companies able to do the work would refuse to sign it unless they were getting a massive 'risk' payment. So the government gives very favourable terms in order to get lowest cost up front and then keeps their collective fingers crossed that it doesn't go wrong. But you get what you pay for, so it often goes wrong.
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Can anyone explain why he's being paid for this? Most of us in the real world would just get sacked.
i suppose the rich could pour the gravy on the grass to kill weeds!
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It took me a year to sort out my pension, during this time I was paid nothing.
When you don't even know who's in the team
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Likewise the contracts that most of the big private companies sign to work for the government - they have extremely favourable terms regards termination of contract for any reason.
When you employ a builder to do work on your house, you (if you're wise) have a contract which is based on a presumption they'll probably fail, so the terms are in your favour if they do. If the builder won't sign, you find someone else who will. The government always goes for minimum price. There aren't many companies in the world able to take on a prison contract or the PFI contract for a district hospital. A sensible contract with 'normal' terms would cost a lot more, because the half dozen companies able to do the work would refuse to sign it unless they were getting a massive 'risk' payment. So the government gives very favourable terms in order to get lowest cost up front and then keeps their collective fingers crossed that it doesn't go wrong.
But you get what you pay for, so it often goes wrong.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”