I'm lost for words. Islington Parking Services bites back

Its also the rag which (this week, and this particularly irritates me)
did their "50 best new bike deals" and spotlighted the Ducati ST4S from
Ducati Aylesbury, despite the fact that they sold the last one weeks
ago.

And, for the second time, gave the thumbs-up to one of those "miracle
performance in a bottle" snake oil products last week.

At least they had the grace to publish a letter this week, telling them
they were cunts for doing it.

 

With a very hot poker.

Hmm, glowing pokers ...

 

That's the right approach.

I had some grief with an immovable object a while ago. The threat of lots of
negative publicity can help focus their attention sometimes.

--
The Judge.
FJR1300 - Transalp
Gone: K1200RS ZZR1200 VL1500LC ZZR1100 GS1000G GSX250
"What's the point of testing anything on an American unless it's a new type
of cattle-prod or the Ebola virus?" Jon Holmes.

 

it's God's punishment to you for being a homosexual.

 

To be honest, I'm amazed it took over 12 hours for someone to post this

 

gissajob

 

if you knew how little journos get paid in the UK you'd not be asking.

 

Yeah, I was just kidding. I'm pretty happy where I am.

 

Heh. Certainly, at the lower end of the ladder, you're right. I'm
surprised how little trainee reporters get paid, especially on local
newspapers, which pay an absolute pittance. But there are so many
graduates (and school leavers) out there desperate to get into
journalism.......

We pay about £17k starting money for our graduate trainees, and if
they're any good, it rises quite rapidly. Local newspapers pay around
£10-12k (maybe slightly more for a decent local rag, and if you've got
an NTCJ qualification), but it's still peanuts.

There's quite a steep jump when you get to editorial level, for a
number of reasons. Literacy is (sweeping generalisation time) poor
among anyone who's been through the state school system in the last 30
years. So anyone who's got really good literacy skills won't starve.
There's also the matter of being multi-skilled: when QuarkXpress first
appeared, there was an evangelical zeal to train every editor on Quark.
Then publishers discovered how much the licences cost, and they stopped
training anyone except production staff. In business journalism (less
so in consumer) there's since been a move to reduce staff numbers, and
production staff are an easy target. An editor who has good Quark will
never starve either.

FWIW, I'm in the £40k bracket, which is slightly over par for a B2B
editor, but then I run a fairly important journal and my job goes
rather beyond mere word butchery. Consumer magazine editors get about
the same - it varies. Some major newsstand titles (Vogue, Time Out,
Rado Times, the lads' mags) pay more, but then so do big B2B
publications like The Grocer, Estates Gazette, The Engineer etc.
Scientific titles like Nature, and especially medical journals, pay
well - the editor of The Lancet or the BMJ absolutely has to have a
relevant medical qualification and you're not going to get a qualified
doctor editing a magazine for 35 grand.

Obviously, freelance income is on top of your salary, and you know as
well as anyone what that pays, and how it varies.

It's a comfortable living, but it's some way from being handsomely
paid. People do it because they love it and because they can keep on
doing beyond retirement age, and because the perks are good. But if you
want to make 'proper' money in journalism, you want to be on the
advertising side. Or edit a Fleet Street newspaper.

 

Try this:

"I have no liability with respect to this PCN. I have no requirement
to provide you with any details of my vehicle. Further letters, other
than an apology, or demands for money will be considered for action
under the Prevention From Harrassment Act. Should you wish to proceed
with this matter, I will happily see you in court, to which the media
will be invited.

Yours, etc"

 

Idiot.

 

which is a pity for me, as I'm still looking for a clueful project
manager.

 

TOG@toil, ,

that'd be a bite then, eh?

 

No, not really. More an acknowledgement that you know what you're
talking about.

 

TOG@toil, ,

stop spoiling an argument with your filthy facts.

The figure you quote for local newspaper starters (£10-12k) is
particularly illuminating. For /under/graduate interns we pay £14-15k.

But then again, almost everyone here (financial services, The City) is
overpaid.

 

*snort* Daft bugger.

 

Amended...

Dave

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, vulgarandmischevious belched forth and ejected
the following:

You seem a lot happier where you are now compared to the middle east.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Pip belched forth and ejected the following:

"It's the Moby-5!"

 

You could also express wonderment at why they haven't informed the
Police that there is photographic evidence in their possession of a
car running stolen plates.