Your accomodation for the Olympics is ready Gentlemen,....
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Nice to see we treat everyone involved in the Games to a little bit of luxuery and consideration.....
Oh, and Major Bloggs, that holiday you had booked to Barbados - please tell your wife and family you are not going..... (true storey, just dont know his name).
Cheers G4S, you've made so many peoples' summer.
Oh, and Major Bloggs, that holiday you had booked to Barbados - please tell your wife and family you are not going..... (true storey, just dont know his name).
Cheers G4S, you've made so many peoples' summer.
Edited by TTmonkey on Wednesday 18th July 11:33
rohrl said:
You're forgetting the real victim here. Mr Buckle of G4s has been struggling by on a basic salary of £830,000 before bonus and now he's probably going to lose his job soon with only a pay-off of a million or two to comfort him. It's a bloody disgrace.
If he was being paid 50k a year, would the situation have been ok? What about 100k? 250k? 500k?That anyone is surprised there are huge cock ups on this Olympics shenanigans is the only surprise. You'll all be on here next year ranting when the press are "exposing" how the legacy of the games is a Stratford that's still a s
thole and a stadium that was torn down as no one could agree what to do with it.KrazyIvan said:
And how do you think it would have looked had they been put up in London hotels (bearing mind the massive price hikes currently going on), while other soldier were loosing their jobs? Its a lose/lose situation.
And how many hotels would argue with a few hundred solders, when they say we are staying here for nothing,With the goverment behind them!
Adrian W said:
KrazyIvan said:
And how do you think it would have looked had they been put up in London hotels (bearing mind the massive price hikes currently going on), while other soldier were loosing their jobs? Its a lose/lose situation.
And how many hotels would argue with a few hundred solders, when they say we are staying here for nothing,With the goverment behind them!
Beijing was 4 years ago.
madbadger said:
Adrian W said:
KrazyIvan said:
And how do you think it would have looked had they been put up in London hotels (bearing mind the massive price hikes currently going on), while other soldier were loosing their jobs? Its a lose/lose situation.
And how many hotels would argue with a few hundred solders, when they say we are staying here for nothing,With the goverment behind them!
Beijing was 4 years ago.
G4S need to pay dearly for this cockup, but unfortunately this is the reality of private outsourcing.
I spent a year as a security supervisor, unfortunately the adage concerning peanuts and monkeys is generally quite a truism. Wages are utterly shocking so the attendant trouble/short notice cancellation/hassle factor with the workers increases exponentially.
Of course, there were a few retired guys and otherwise great workers down on their luck who then get pulled from pillar to post covering the no-shows...
I spent a year as a security supervisor, unfortunately the adage concerning peanuts and monkeys is generally quite a truism. Wages are utterly shocking so the attendant trouble/short notice cancellation/hassle factor with the workers increases exponentially.
Of course, there were a few retired guys and otherwise great workers down on their luck who then get pulled from pillar to post covering the no-shows...
Adrian W said:
Sorry you're right this is London the Macdonalds/CocaCola/Visa games.
As indeed was Beijing, Athens, Vancouver, to name the three others I've been to. These major events are a massive corporate sponsorfest, there's nothing on this one that's new, other than most of you having never had the 'pleasure' of one before.At least these stadiums are built. Without naming names/locations, there have been Olympics where the stadiums weren't properly complete at the opening ceremony.
Adrian W said:
madbadger said:
Adrian W said:
KrazyIvan said:
And how do you think it would have looked had they been put up in London hotels (bearing mind the massive price hikes currently going on), while other soldier were loosing their jobs? Its a lose/lose situation.
And how many hotels would argue with a few hundred solders, when they say we are staying here for nothing,With the goverment behind them!
Beijing was 4 years ago.
rohrl said:
You're forgetting the real victim here. Mr Buckle of G4s has been struggling by on a basic salary of £830,000 before bonus and now he's probably going to lose his job soon with only a pay-off of a million or two to comfort him. It's a bloody disgrace.
I say we get together and build a care package of basic neccessities for him; are you in?TTmonkey said:
Nice to see we treat everyone involved in the Games to a little bit of luxuery and consideration.....
Oh, and Major Bloggs, that holiday you had booked to Barbados - please tell your wife and family you are not going..... (true storey, just dont know his name).
Cheers G4S, you've made so many peoples' summer.
Nothing new, here prisoners accomodations are protected by criminal rights groups while soldiers sweat it out in hand dug ditches while in the field or hot cramped tents on a lucky day. Oh, and Major Bloggs, that holiday you had booked to Barbados - please tell your wife and family you are not going..... (true storey, just dont know his name).
Cheers G4S, you've made so many peoples' summer.
Edited by TTmonkey on Wednesday 18th July 11:33
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