Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Nickbat]

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority [IPSA] bought seven chairs for £538 each as part of its £300k spending spree.




http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/23482/ipsa_spending_spree_revealed.html

 

[Varche]

 

Where will the waste of our money end?

[albitz]

The sense of entitlement is deeply imbedded I fear.

[Kevin Wood]

On the basis that it takes one to know one I expect they'll prove to be highly effective.

Kevin

[aaronjb]

Sounds about right - roughly what the chairs we have here cost, IIRC (http://www.aeronchairuk.com/) .. very nice chairs, incidentally.

[Dishevelled Den]

The sense of entitlement is deeply imbedded I fear.

Or some would say - deeply seated.

[Gaffers]

I am not sure the full facts have been reported here.  A lot of Govt departments are going down the route of through-life contracts for infrastructure, this may be one of those cases.  Thus it may seem expensive per chair (or not, have you seen the prices in office supply catalogues recently) but if it was for a chair for 10/15/20 years then I would agrue that is may be better value for money

On a slightly related issue I saw a job advert for this department looking for a head of IT/Information Security manager position.  They were offering £50k!  In London for 2 jobs which each attract saleries nearly double that in the city!   

[aaronjb]

On a slightly related issue I saw a job advert for this department looking for a head of IT/Information Security manager position.  They were offering £50k!  In London for 2 jobs which each attract saleries nearly double that in the city!   

Yeah - £50k seems rather cheap for an Information Security manager (with whom the buck usually stops if anything does get leaked/breached) - that's a lot of responsibility I wouldn't want for that money

(Now if you doubled it, I'd consider it - but then again, I have no desire to get on the slowest train in the world into London every day )

[Gaffers]

On a slightly related issue I saw a job advert for this department looking for a head of IT/Information Security manager position.  They were offering £50k!  In London for 2 jobs which each attract saleries nearly double that in the city!   

Yeah - £50k seems rather cheap for an Information Security manager (with whom the buck usually stops if anything does get leaked/breached) - that's a lot of responsibility I wouldn't want for that money

(Now if you doubled it, I'd consider it - but then again, I have no desire to get on the slowest train in the world into London every day )

Me too, I was interesed until I saw the salary.  Mind you if I was earning £80k + then I would want have my arse parked on a chair that cost at least a grand 

[aaronjb]

Me too, I was interesed until I saw the salary.  Mind you if I was earning £80k + then I would want have my arse parked on a chair that cost at least a grand 

  Don't come here, then.. we only have the basic model Aeron chairs 

Life is sooo hard! 

[albitz]

They obviously havent had the Malcolm Tucker lecture on expensive civil service chairs.  NWS!
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaFvvWi_KGE[/media]