The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Public MoneyI used to work on a very expensive project in which over £200,000 a year of European money was spent in doing bugger all. Where do I start?
- Public funding is normally matched by other funds. In this case, the university put 50% of the money in. This "money" came in the form of fake staff. The head of finance would forge their time sheets.
- You have to give the number of people you've helped at the end of a project. Not enough? No worries, someone will fill in fake forms for them! Don't want to be found out? Tick the "I do not wish to be contacted" box. Easy.
- Retire? Why do that? Move 350 miles away and still claim a salary even though you're not doing any work.
- Want to run a happy clappy Christian church? Take a job as a project manager on this project - don't even bother coming into work. No one will mind! You're just replacing the last person who did this, didn't turn up in the office once in 6 months and took £30k home for the privilege.
I've left now, thank god.
(, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 12:08, Reply)
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