A couple of winners were celebrating in the D&D last night, buying drinks all round, after finally being paid.
OK, so they had to wait 4 months, but to compensate them, SAP paid twice. Apparently this made up for all the extra administrative charges and interest they had incurred in the struggle to get paid at all.
Halfway through the evening, another yokel rolled in with an even broader grin on his face. He had also been paid, and, wait for it, hadn’t even sent in an invoice! Drinks all round once again.
Now if I tell you that all this merriment and drunken revelry was taking place at the North end of the bar … then perhaps you can guess what happened next?
Because down at the South end, sullen losers whose payments are four months overdue were still drowning their SAP sorrows, and hearing that someone had won the SAP Lottery without even buying a ticket, their mood turned even uglier than usual.
According to Daffer, the ensuing fracas, and the landlord's panic stricken 999 call to the Police ("no-one in the area, sorry", needless to say), were instrumental in helping Jonesy to finally admit that the game was up.
So he's given a paltry 2 weeks notice, and after this month's payday will leave us a memorable legacy:
Chaos;
Confusionism;
Jonesian Mathematics (aka x+y=200 million);
Discredited Local Democracy; and
The SAP about to hit the fan!
It's hard to believe they're all being so polite about it. Consensus down at the D&D is
Good Riddance!
:-)
We also think it would be nice if he could take some of his noodly appendages with him. Or is that just being greedy?
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Please can the author of this blog contact BBC Somerset on 01823 323 956.
Dear BBC. Alan is the most approachable man and I have no doubt that a call to your former colleague Simon Clifford would help smooth the way to a meaningful conversation with the author of this blog - namely Alan himself. Yours helpfully.
http://theofficialalanjonesblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/dont-blame-software.html
The plot thickens.....law suits next?
So Alan has finally taken the hint and is moving on, but with a generous severance package I don't doubt, IMHO he ought to repay the council for the compensation they have had to pay to former staff because of him, £140k would be a start.
Savings all partners now £400m!!
Richard Crouch "Je ne regret rien"...
http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2009/07/17/51478/hr-shared-services-interview-with-richard-crouch-head-of-hr-at-somerset-county-council-on.html
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