Read an autocue - 100k plus clothes allowance....

[donna180]

So you read an autocue - something probably most people could do with some practice and the Govt. gives you a state subsidized 100k per year job and then you demand a clothes allowance on top.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097519/BB...

Surely a) the beeb should relocate en mass to Manchester or Newcastle rather than be based in London with maybe a small office to cover the Capital and b) autocue readers should have their salaries capped at say 50k outside of London and wear what normal office workers wear and c) taxpayers money shouldn't fund autocue reader's Prada accounts...

Thoughts?

[Puggit]

Errrrr.... Who's going to tell the OP?

[br d]

Is it something about Salford?

[Mojooo]

Emma Boon, Campaign Director of the TaxPayers’ Alliance who also makes appearances on television, called Miss Hill’s demands unfair.

She said: ‘I’m expected to appear in public at speaking engagements and on television regularly. Like many women I don’t have a wardrobe allowance and buy all my work clothes out of my salary.’



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yes, but no one gives a toss about what you look like (or say!)

[theaxe]

What's stopping you applying for the job then?

[donna180]

theaxe said:

What's stopping you applying for the job then?

I wouldn't want to work at the BBC.

The point is it's a massive waste of taxpayers money.... Why can't she wear the same suit everyday like the blokes. And, given that inner city teachers aren't paid the same rates, why should she earn more for an easier job - teachers and lecturers don't need the autocue but I think you'll find they earn less.

[audidoody]

You'd think she could borrow some extra dresses from her partner

[iphonedyou]

donna180 said:

I wouldn't want to work at the BBC.

The point is it's a massive waste of taxpayers money.... Why can't she wear the same suit everyday like the blokes. And, given that inner city teachers aren't paid the same rates, why should she earn more for an easier job - teachers and lecturers don't need the autocue but I think you'll find they earn less.

Surely it's license payers money. Also, it's a little strange that you've arbitrarily decided the difficulty of roles you've presumably no experience in. Unless you're a news reading former lecturer, of course. In which case, I apologise profusely.

[Mojooo]

Thning is I am not sure the BBC Management woudl want her turnign up in the same clothes everyday and if she did she would prob be gotten rid of

[donna180]

iphonedyou said:

donna180 said:

I wouldn't want to work at the BBC.

The point is it's a massive waste of taxpayers money.... Why can't she wear the same suit everyday like the blokes. And, given that inner city teachers aren't paid the same rates, why should she earn more for an easier job - teachers and lecturers don't need the autocue but I think you'll find they earn less.

Surely it's license payers money. Also, it's a little strange that you've arbitrarily decided the difficulty of roles you've presumably no experience in. Unless you're a news reading former lecturer, of course. In which case, I apologise profusely.

Well effectively it's a flat tax on watching TV.

Well the weather presenters (who normally work at the met office) don't use autocue and have to present whereas the "profile" presenters get to use the autocue... I'm not saying it's an easy job and anyone could do it but it seems to be that they almost create an artificial monopoly of presenters - as it's effectively a state subsidized position I don't see why the salary has to be as high and wrt clothes, as they are on film, I would say 3/4 cheap suits in rotation per month should be fine. It seems ludicrous to me. Do all the radio presenters get paid parity with the news /autocue-ers.... The difference between a local radio DJ and Hugh Edwards/Jane Hills doesn't seem much to me...

[AndyACB]

I think they should make her read out this story on the next bulletin.

Is this really newsworthy? Give her a uniform, no one gives a stuff what they wear whilst telling us how good labour are or the latest disaster to fall on the UK.

[iphonedyou]

donna180 said:

Well effectively it's a flat tax on watching TV.

Well the weather presenters (who normally work at the met office) don't use autocue and have to present whereas the "profile" presenters get to use the autocue... I'm not saying it's an easy job and anyone could do it but it seems to be that they almost create an artificial monopoly of presenters - as it's effectively a state subsidized position I don't see why the salary has to be as high and wrt clothes, as they are on film, I would say 3/4 cheap suits in rotation per month should be fine. It seems ludicrous to me. Do all the radio presenters get paid parity with the news /autocue-ers.... The difference between a local radio DJ and Hugh Edwards/Jane Hills doesn't seem much to me...

Do local radio DJs have the same number of listeners as Hugh Edwards have viewers? I genuinely don't know, but I'd imagine one would need that figure before one can dispute the lack of pay parity.

[donna180]

iphonedyou said:

donna180 said:

Well effectively it's a flat tax on watching TV.

Well the weather presenters (who normally work at the met office) don't use autocue and have to present whereas the "profile" presenters get to use the autocue... I'm not saying it's an easy job and anyone could do it but it seems to be that they almost create an artificial monopoly of presenters - as it's effectively a state subsidized position I don't see why the salary has to be as high and wrt clothes, as they are on film, I would say 3/4 cheap suits in rotation per month should be fine. It seems ludicrous to me. Do all the radio presenters get paid parity with the news /autocue-ers.... The difference between a local radio DJ and Hugh Edwards/Jane Hills doesn't seem much to me...

Do local radio DJs have the same number of listeners as Hugh Edwards have viewers? I genuinely don't know, but I'd imagine one would need that figure before one can dispute the lack of pay parity.

But no-one puts a local radio DJ on prime time - who really cares who reads the News - I don't - they should rotate a lot more staff and get a few more practizing at almost zero cost off-camera. If they auditioned /advertised for the role at 30k they'd get thousands of photogenic graduates and I'm sure hundreds would give the exact same performance at a third or less of the cost.

I'm with the taxpayers alliance on this!

[Deva Link]

donna180 said:

So you read an autocue - something probably most people could do with some practice and the Govt. gives you a state subsidized 100k per year job and then you demand a clothes allowance on top.....
.......
Thoughts?

She didn't "demand" a cloths allowance, she mentioned it while being interviewed for an article.

I thought these people were all contractors - they're not directly employed by the BBC, are they?

[iphonedyou]

donna180 said:

But no-one puts a local radio DJ on prime time - who really cares who reads the News - I don't - they should rotate a lot more staff and get a few more practizing at almost zero cost off-camera. If they auditioned /advertised for the role at 30k they'd get thousands of photogenic graduates and I'm sure hundreds would give the exact same performance at a third or less of the cost.

I'm with the taxpayers alliance on this!

I do see where you're coming from, although I think it's probably a lot harder than it looks. Personally, I'll back your recommendations if it's 25 year old female photogenic graduates

[donna180]

Deva Link said:

donna180 said:

So you read an autocue - something probably most people could do with some practice and the Govt. gives you a state subsidized 100k per year job and then you demand a clothes allowance on top.....
.......
Thoughts?

She didn't "demand" a cloths allowance, she mentioned it while being interviewed for an article.

I thought these people were all contactors - they're not directly employed by the BBC, are they?

I would complain about that too but....

The people presenting the OU programs get a fraction of the money the auto-cue readers get and I'm sure most of them could do the same job, no problem with practically no barriers to entry save for a bit of practise off camera.....

[maxxy5]

Are you sure it was even a serious demand? I read it in the paper originally and I don't remember taking it seriously, was in a 'lifestyle' section I think.

[ExChrispy Porker]

Who cares?
It is not compulsory to watch the BBC.
Or indeed any television.
If a minute fraction of my licence fee goes to providing wardrobe for news readers, so be it.

[Justayellowbadge]

Donna, you should concentrate upon yourself, rather than sniping at those you envy.

[TheEnd]

What she doesn't realise is that no one G.A.F as to what she wears.

In her own tiny mind, she's paranoid about it, outside of that, no one would even recognise her face, let alone what she wore last week.