Archive for March 1st, 2008

849,139

Grandad March 1st, 2008

So Pat ‘The Plank’ Kenny is being paid €849,139 a year.  And that was the year before last, so he’s on a lot more than that now.

plank
Pat Kenny.

Let’s look at it.

€849,139 = $1,289,201 [US]

€849,139 = 51,597,044 Rupees

€849,139 = 133,786,883 Yen

All this money for a bloke with the charisma of a warthog with piles.

They could sack him and employ 25 real workers?

Every hour of every day he is being paid €97.

Every night, he gets paid €775, just for sleeping?

5.300 people are paying their licence fees just to pay The Plank?

If €849,139 were invested at 4% the interest alone could pay a full salary indefinitely.

€849,139 could pay for nearly 100,000 hours work on the minimum wage.

The Plank is paid around €1,180 a year, just for sitting on the jax and taking a dump?

Is he worth it?

Is anyone worth that?

[Apart from me, of course.....]

All the fours

Grandad March 1st, 2008

Despite numerous pleading and threats, I have been memed again.

Brianf - You’ll get yours!  I have better things to be doing.

Four jobs I’ve held:
Tomato picker
Cafe manager
Cable television planner
Computer programmer [COBOL]

Four movies I’ve watched over and over again:
Name any four.
With my memory, I can watch a film repeatedly, and not realise until the end that I have seen it before.
Or maybe it’s not my memory - just that films are so forgettable?

Four places I’ve been:
Prison
Gouffre de Padirac 
Alpha Centauri 
Soho

Four places I’ve lived:
Dublin
Up the mountains
That’s enough for me

Four TV shows I watch:
Whatever Herself is watching

Four radio shows I listen to:
I just put on the radio at random
Classic FM
Lyric FM

Four things I look forward to: 
Spring 
Long days 
A visit from the grandchildren 
Finishing The Book

Four favourite foods:
Vindaloo curry
Vindaloo curry
Vindaloo curry
Vindaloo curry

Four places I’d rather be:
1971
1972
1973
1974

Four people I e-mail regularly:

Clients who haven’t paid their bills.