How do we get our bit of the £150m?

[minestrone]

So it's to keep seats warm rather than to buy new seats? Sod that.

I noticed in the press that they appointed an IT startup tzar a few months ago. Only 10 years late. He probably gets 150 grand a year to go to meetings and say things like "synergize" all day. I am not sure he has a background in IT either.

I was told that they might was well just chuck the 5 billion quid they get a year out the windows, it would be a fairer system.

[RichardCranium]

I noticed in the press that they appointed an IT startup tzar a few months ago. Only 10 years late.

46 years.

"The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated methods on either side of industry." Harold Wilson, The White Heat of Technology speech, 1963.

[Menelaus]

I noticed in the press that they appointed an IT startup tzar a few months ago. Only 10 years late. He probably gets 150 grand a year to go to meetings and say things like "synergize" all day. I am not sure he has a background in IT either.

I was told that they might was well just chuck the 5 billion quid they get a year out the windows, it would be a fairer system.

FFS "IT startup tsar" - if s/he's that s/he'd still be doing it not sitting around Scottish Enterprise muttering about synergy and producing the square-root of **** all.

[Sysman]

Bum.

linky winky



It's just money for quangos.

Gits.

I can hear the plummy accents from here.

[sasguru]

Indeed, Tarquin, old chap...

What ho old bean! What a jolly jape this IT lark is eh?

I would laugh if it wasn't so true and so sad.

[Menelaus]

Farquhar?

[sasguru]

Farquhar?

Farqutoo

[Sysman]

Indeed, Tarquin, old chap...

A chap I worked with in the early 1990s did some digging into quangos and found that they were typically earning 40K a year (per quango). Not bad for a couple of days work a month.

[Tingles]

I'm getting the Govt to pay for a high proportion of my training - I'm well 'appy!


T

[mrdonuts]

I'm getting the Govt to pay for a high proportion of my training - I'm well 'appy!


T

how do you go about that then