Op 30-3-2012 11:47, Martin schreef:
>>> That's licence payers money they're saving.
>>
>> And it's standard policy in a lot if not most companies.
>
> What is standard policy? The point is that it isn't standard policy in
> the BBC and should be whatever.
In most companies it's standard policy to have some conditions on which
someone can have a party: whether it's celebrating XX years with the
company, or a goodbye party.
Apart from that you're free to organize something with your mates: have
a booze up or go out for a bite, whatever.
I don't see why the BBC should be different in that respect. Or rather I
do see: they're funded with the license payer's money, that's why.
And it's not exactly that we're talking about underpaid, malnourished
and mistreated workers, is it?