Record fine over BBC's phone-ins
Pathetic. As is every payout from such as an NHS Trust if there is no personal penalty for the transgressors.
All you are doing is shunting more of the public's money around the ridiculous bodies that run or oversee these abuses.
Gaurdian - Cost of the BBC's deception scandals: nearly £1m of our licence fee money - Losing friends and not influencing people?
Aunty has been bad.
So we give another government-related body our money to atone (not extra, just taken from budgets for 'essential services', probably). No one, of course, is responsible... or accountable.
No wonder she, various quangos and the mob that presides over the whole sorry lot are losing friends... even here.
Sadly, I work in the private sector, and it's possible I may one day look the wrong way at a favoured minority group. Unlike serious fraud, I'm guessing I'd be headed for Gitmo.
Spectator - NEW - Ofcom justice: fine the victims
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Eating your words
Bernard Matthews to rebrand and focus on British roots
I'm having a bad day today.
First I saw the headline and thought they were going vegetarian with carrots, swedes, etc.
Then I saw 'big green tick' and... well...
I'm having a bad day today.
First I saw the headline and thought they were going vegetarian with carrots, swedes, etc.
Then I saw 'big green tick' and... well...
Friday, July 25, 2008
It's Friday, it's two thirty, and it's tax attack!
Are you in favour of a new internet tax on downloaders?
Cripes. I was going to say 'who using a net connection would vote for a tax on something they may not use just because a bunch of grasping numpties can't figure out how to separate and/or address those breaking the law from those not', and then I looked at the split. I remember at school the whole class being kept in because someone had misbehaved and we either couldn't (be not knowing) or wouldn't (D'uh) shop him. Yes, he got a rinse in the loos for not owning up, but the teacher lost many, many friends with access to chemicals and still maturing moral compasses.
Cripes. I was going to say 'who using a net connection would vote for a tax on something they may not use just because a bunch of grasping numpties can't figure out how to separate and/or address those breaking the law from those not', and then I looked at the split. I remember at school the whole class being kept in because someone had misbehaved and we either couldn't (be not knowing) or wouldn't (D'uh) shop him. Yes, he got a rinse in the loos for not owning up, but the teacher lost many, many friends with access to chemicals and still maturing moral compasses.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Responsibility and Accountability
But almost never any consequences.
A piece on the BBC news that was worth being aired (can happen).
One side only putting their case, so there may be more to to it, but this was about a pensioner having to fight their PCT for access to a drug.
Thing is, as pointed out, the PCT is throwing tens of thousands in legal fees fighting this when they will soon have to supply it upon NICE approval.
If this is as outlined, it defies logic that the person who made this decision remains in their job.
A piece on the BBC news that was worth being aired (can happen).
One side only putting their case, so there may be more to to it, but this was about a pensioner having to fight their PCT for access to a drug.
Thing is, as pointed out, the PCT is throwing tens of thousands in legal fees fighting this when they will soon have to supply it upon NICE approval.
If this is as outlined, it defies logic that the person who made this decision remains in their job.
Worth Every Penny
Just watching BBC Breakfast News, with a slot on Prince William on Royal Navy duty somewhere exotic.
Reporter, who has, one presumes, flown there for this 'story', addresses busy heir to throne as he passes with this stunning question: 'How's it going, sir?'
HRH: 'Fine'.
Top stuff.
Reporter, who has, one presumes, flown there for this 'story', addresses busy heir to throne as he passes with this stunning question: 'How's it going, sir?'
HRH: 'Fine'.
Top stuff.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Starting anew
Moving between account management and creative......
I had a Civ. Eng. Degree and a spec. porty.
So I became a an account exec. and added 2 years experience to my ad CV whilst haunting the creative dept. in the evenings. Also attending creative seminars run by young creatives like Steve Henry (it was a while ago).
Then I took a risk and quit to make it in creative.
Dorland needed a copywriter on the Caterpillar account. I knew big toys, how accounts worked and had the porty to prove it. Got hired and a year later fired (happened a lot subsequently) when a new CD arrived and 'I didn't fit with the culture'.
15 years later I was co-owner and CD of one of Asia's most respected indies, with Christian Dior, Microsoft, SAAB, Porsche & NWA as clients.
Get in any way you can. Then you can figure your next move. Trust no one and always be ready to leap. There is no loyalty:)
'Course, the 'system' may be a lot different to then. But at least you're young, which has to be one point in favour. Whilst proving what you can do is not as important as who you might have been in the room doing it for, who you know still seems the best way forward.
I had a Civ. Eng. Degree and a spec. porty.
So I became a an account exec. and added 2 years experience to my ad CV whilst haunting the creative dept. in the evenings. Also attending creative seminars run by young creatives like Steve Henry (it was a while ago).
Then I took a risk and quit to make it in creative.
Dorland needed a copywriter on the Caterpillar account. I knew big toys, how accounts worked and had the porty to prove it. Got hired and a year later fired (happened a lot subsequently) when a new CD arrived and 'I didn't fit with the culture'.
15 years later I was co-owner and CD of one of Asia's most respected indies, with Christian Dior, Microsoft, SAAB, Porsche & NWA as clients.
Get in any way you can. Then you can figure your next move. Trust no one and always be ready to leap. There is no loyalty:)
'Course, the 'system' may be a lot different to then. But at least you're young, which has to be one point in favour. Whilst proving what you can do is not as important as who you might have been in the room doing it for, who you know still seems the best way forward.
Monday, July 7, 2008
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