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[GrahamH]

I remember bus drivers having similarly complicated payment calculations - phased out in the 1970s or 1980s I think  We had special routines in the payroll system just for them.

Graham

[GrahamH]

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[Redroger]

When on contract mileage a driver could work Monday- Wednesday, Off Thursday-WEdnesday, Work Thursday- Wednesday Off Thursday - Saturday etc. etc. earnings over £30K mid 1990s.

[Nick29]

The best job I ever did was when I worked in a union closed shop.  It was a licence to print money.  These days you'd have to go into banking to make so much for doing so little 

[GrahamH]

The best job I ever did was when I worked in a union closed shop.  It was a licence to print money.  These days you'd have to go into banking to make so much for doing so little 

Or become an MP 

Graham

[Redroger]

Hardly Graham, a failed banker, Goodwin has REDUCED his pension to £375K, almost double the Prime Minister's salary, and 6 times that of a back bench MP>.Remember for all their failings the MPs have to sort out the failures and dodgy dealings of the bankers.

[tomkin]

Remember for all their failings the MPs have to sort out the failures and dodgy dealings of the bankers.

   Then why haven't they!!!!


          Tomkin

[Redroger]

Good point, But it's a work in progress. So few people understand the crisis, and so many bankers etc. have their own agendas, and don't really care if the system crashes so long as their own nests are feathered.There are also limits to what can be done in a democracy, particularly one where the government suffers constant harrassment from a hostile press!

[GrahamH]

I was thinking more of the expenses Roger 

It would be nice to see MPs go through the same sort of Job Evaluation process that local government has had to undergo in recent years. Could well end up in their salaries being cut.

As for bankers salaries - and footballers etc for that matter - the only way to curb excesses in the private sector is through legislation.

Like your point

don't really care if the system crashes so long as their own nests are feathered

Didn't realise Microsoft had opened a bank 

Graham