You know what, if I had managed to negotiate a future income of 25 grand a week, fine wines, country houses and as many girls as my tongue could cope with1 from a government that could not find its arse with both hands and a map let alone navigate a path to future prosperity I would most certainly be going "Fuck you" when said government came back and said "er, that deal we negotiated, it's really become politically embarrassing so would you mind handing that seventeen million quid back"
Look as you know I work for Banco di Haggis I'm not really meant to comment but let's say that should Sir Fred ever cross my path he'd be getting both nostrils set to "crispy" and not just because he's a fucking knight but he made a great place to work into a laughing stock and every time we get summoned to a manager's pow-wow we're all sat there going "ooooh fuck... here it comes"... and don't get me started on the sodding ABN merger. That said though if the government, B de H's major (only?) shareholder makes such an epic FAIL then one really cannot blame Fred The Shite for taking the cash and running whilst no doubt grinning like a loon at his good fortune.
Mind you we now have to watch NuLab throw good money after bad as they will no doubt in their socialist spite start a court case to get the cash back. When they do I really hope that Fred opens up and spills the whole story of the backroom deals and political chicanery that went on "that weekend" and thus hammers yet another nine incher into the coffin of Gordon the Monocular Cunt.
1 (c) Ben Elton, back when he was funny.
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Did wonder what you thought. I suspect the answer is that govt. is crap at negoiating wages (see the GP fiasco) with anyone who is even slightly financially literate.
Good look over there with life, at least one city based programmer has pointed out that there will be a wave of new legislation (and presumably risk management systems) working it's way through so techies will probably have a shitty year or two then it'll be time to make hay.
Meanwhile we're happily flogging stuff to the police which while it's not perfect makes us less worried about the recession.
Oh yes. I figure so long as I can hang on for a year or so it will be back to big fat pay-checks. I specialise in risk as well and I wrote a goodly chunk of Merrill Lynch's capital adequacy system back in the day so with fair luck and a following wind I'll be coining it.
The other great thing will be that now bonuses are going to be frowned upon we can all look forward to bigger base salaries and not having to get too concerned when annual appraisal time comes around which is a WIN in my book.
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