Why is it central government's role to tell councils what employment package, salary, perks, etc they should use for a role? That should be up to the council who will know better than Whitehall … (View Post)

That is an AI summary which is regurgitating details of a 2024 right wing gripe about HMRC furniture spending. It is approximately useless for telling us anything about this recent contract. (In gene… (View Post)

The details of the contract are going to matter here. Is this 11 million for a one off complete refurb of all offices? Or is it 11m to provide new desks and chairs and replace broken ones "on de… (View Post)

I'm not convinced about "retires without being ousted", unless you mean to include in that "is practically speaking forced to resign but doesn't formally lose a leadership co… (View Post)

Relative over Christmas told an anecdote about an ex-nurse friend of theirs: intensive care nurse, burnt out during the pandemic, quit and is now a nail technician -- and is making more money than sh… (View Post)