Sunday 18 December 2011

GIS A JOB




A Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:
 
                       


 
 
TRUE STORY
 

Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England , there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
 
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and coaches £5 (about $7).
 
This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years.  Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work.
 
"Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd better phone up the City Council and get them to send a new parking attendant . . . "
 
"Err . . . no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility." 


"Err . . . no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't he?"
"Err . . . no!" insisted he's not one of my employees said the Council.
 
Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (presumably), is a man who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $560) per 
day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7 million - or $280,000 every year for 25 years)!

TAX FREE! 
    
And no one even knows his name!

7 comments:

Twisted Scottish Bastard said...

And he never ever had a day off work!

That kind of commitment brings a tear to the eye. Someone should find him and offer him the Chair of Entrepreneurial Studies at Waikato University.

Nicola said...

It's a lovely story- all Robin Hood like. But I can't remember there ever being a London Times and it got me all suspicious: http://www.bristolzoo.org.uk/about/news/News1935

And so today I am the grinch.

THE CURMUDGEON said...

Ha ha. You are right Nicola. Lynn sent that to me earlier this year. It was April 1st!

THE CURMUDGEON said...

But did you like the Yosser Hughes clip?

Richard (of RBB) said...

Comeinyourpants has egg on his face!

THE CURMUDGEON said...

No.
I knew it was a spoof. I just didn't reckon on the smart one. I thought she had disappeared.

Tracey said...

Posting in Comic Sans .... hmmm ......http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole