Reply to: How do we get our bit of the £150m?

[Tingles]

how do you go about that then

Sent you a PM...


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[mrdonuts]

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


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how do you go about that then

[Tingles]

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


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[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.

[sasguru]

Farquhar?

Farqutoo

[Menelaus]

Farquhar?

[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.

[Sysman]

Bum.

linky winky



It's just money for quangos.

Gits.

I can hear the plummy accents from here.

[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.

[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that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated methods on either side of industry."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.

[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.

[Menelaus]

prrrrrp

global warming!

[chef]

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

prrrrrp

[Menelaus]

That's OK, we can share it.

I asked a friend who works at scottish enterprise what were the chances of getting funding for a business plan I had, he basically told me to forget it and that if I had made facebook and asked them for startup cash they would have told me to bugger off.

In my exp the money is handed out to established companies to keep a few bums on seats, they do not understand the startup enterprise mindset.

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

[minestrone]

I most certainly linky winky did!

That's OK, we can share it.

I asked a friend who works at scottish enterprise what were the chances of getting funding for a business plan I had, he basically told me to forget it and that if I had made facebook and asked them for startup cash they would have told me to bugger off.

In my exp the money is handed out to established companies to keep a few bums on seats, they do not understand the startup enterprise mindset.