FabSwingers.com forum: more job cuts

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The BBC has confirmed plans to axe 650 jobs under huge cost savings, saying it was a "painful day" for its global news service.

Around 480 of the jobs will go over the next year and the savings will amount to £46 million a year by 2014.

The BBC made it clear the cuts were as a result of changes to the funding of the World Service, which will be paid for by the licence fee from 2014 rather than by the Government.

And i bet the fuckers will put the licence up even high ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The BBC has confirmed plans to axe 650 jobs under huge cost savings, saying it was a "painful day" for its global news service.

Around 480 of the jobs will go over the next year and the savings will amount to £46 million a year by 2014.

The BBC made it clear the cuts were as a result of changes to the funding of the World Service, which will be paid for by the licence fee from 2014 rather than by the Government.

And i bet the fuckers will put the licence up even high ?"

That seems a like a lot to go. did it say anywhere how many the Beeb actually employ in total?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The main job cuts are still ahead of us. The saddest part for me is that some organisations will see the current environment as an opportunity to make job cuts they don't need to.

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By *heWolfMan
over a year ago

warwickshire

"And i bet the fuckers will put the licence up even high ?"

Not for 6 years they won't, they agreed to feeze it last October.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"And i bet the fuckers will put the licence up even high ?

Not for 6 years they won't, they agreed to feeze it last October."

Thats why they are cutting staff then to save costs. A shame really because some of the smaller Beeb stations are quite good and i am guessing some will get cut with that many staff going.

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By *heWolfMan
over a year ago

warwickshire

"And i bet the fuckers will put the licence up even high ?

Not for 6 years they won't, they agreed to feeze it last October."

"freeze", even!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Read an articall the other day Re some BBC diretor speading £600 on a texi fair and claiming it bk off her xpences yeah thats right £600 !!!! there on about cuts, they wonna cut cuntish speading out like that ffs

taking the PISS !!! here the link if ya wonna read for ya self * rollin

* http://www.aoltv.co.uk/2011/01/24/bbc-boss-spends-600-on-taxi-ride/

* creeps round graveyard *

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As much as the BBC shoots itself in the foot with the expenses and salaries of its executives, retaining a powerful BBC is vital. If anyone here has ever lived in North America for a time as I did (three years), you'll know how bad the like of CNN and Fox News are.

Don't let Rupert Murdoch take over.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If they stopped their execs running up taxi bills of between £1200 and £2500 in three months, they would probably not have to make the cuts

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By *heWolfMan
over a year ago

warwickshire

Yes they would, because they would ahve been providing company cars or other travel concessions. Executives these days expect to have that covered in their remuneration package. Taxis are probably the cheapest option.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If they stopped their execs running up taxi bills of between £1200 and £2500 in three months, they would probably not have to make the cuts"

Not a chance but that's what the public believes. The BBC getting massive cuts as the Tories return to power? Oh, what a coincidence! Nothing to do with Rupert Murdoch at all...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/news/2010/05/21/pm-pay-back-to-murdoch-115875-22273847/

Quite simply, the BBC is important as it does have a desire to be impartial. Yes, it isn't perfect, but it's a million times better than anything else out there, and that goes for News International, the bullshit Mail, or the pisspoor Guardian.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"And i bet the fuckers will put the licence up even high ?

Not for 6 years they won't, they agreed to feeze it last October.

Thats why they are cutting staff then to save costs. A shame really because some of the smaller Beeb stations are quite good and i am guessing some will get cut with that many staff going."

the only bbc station going in the shake up now is the asian network, the cuts yesterday were to the world service and that was because the funding of the world service, use to come out of the funds of the FCO, but now come out of the BBC fund money....

The Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian services will be closed, as will English for the Caribbean and Portuguese for Africa, in a bid to save £46m a year.

I think the biggest issue is that it could affect things diplomatically with is one of the things that Hilary Clinton raises...

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