The most difficult job in the world
Imagine you land a job where you get paid £161-50 a day for each day you turn up (even if you stay for, like, 20 minutes) plus £86.50 a day for food, drink and taxis, and an additional £75 for office costs, without producing a single receipt.
And you can’t resign even if you wanted to. What sort of workplace would let you do that?
Some people would tell you that your boss is either a saint or an idiot of the highest degree. Everyone at work takes the piss and the whole shop functions like a joke, with average attendance rates standing at just over 50%.
Until one day, under pressure from auditors, the board, or sheer financial hardship, your gaffer decides to see sense and announces he’s going to tighten the belt.
‘Course you’d expect the “reforms” to bring in more scrutiny on costs and expenses (i.e. producing receipts) as well as a wage freeze or even a pay cut.
But no. You turn up to work (it’s not even compulsory, there’s no attendance levels, you see) and, much to your delight, you find out that the dreaded toughened up rules are so tough that you wage is actually higher – from £161-50 a day to £200!
More, you also get £140 a night for accomodation expenses and you’ll still be spared from submitting receipts, as long as you declare you’ve performed “appropriate duties”, whatever that means. Sure, now you’ll be required to clock in, but a couple of hours will do, so no worries if you get bored or your colleague’s annoying voice is getting on your nerves.
Dream job, right?
Well, welcome to the world of Unelected Peers in the House of Lords. And you know what the Senior Salaries Review Board people said (those who drafted the reforms)? “We are sending a strong signal: if you’re swinging the lead, don’t do it.”
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On the other hand they do do a better job of scrutiny than the commons.
(Not saying much I know.)
All good fun, Claude. But we need them to teach our kids it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
Not to mention the ex jailbirds.
Yeah, but at least with the new rules the Lords and Ladies have a chance of staying honest. Under the old rules, it was very, very, difficult.
The official excuse for the mess was that it would all be sorted out when the definitive reform of the Lords was put in place. So the mess is down, once again, to our government.
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