The Last Taboo

While negotiating contracts with the French Space agency I had to abide
by a launch site directive on what my guys were paid. All extras, and
they accounted for the bulk (75%) of the guys financial reward, were
based on a multiple of the basic months pay. This meant it was important
to know what a person was worth for the job they did.

Then some one sent me a disc that had the salaries for everyone on the
base. I still don't know who it was but it came from CNES Toulouse and
at the time I didn't know anyone there.

It did mean my guys ended up the best paid for their jobs.

Also the most incompetent HR guy that I ever had to work with was paid
the highest in the HR dept and more than the *most* competent French PM
I worked with.

On the disc were copies of the top permies CVs. And 'Oh My', the lies
they told when it came down to speaking and writing excellent English.

 

It gets worse - apparently she actually spent £190 on 3, one of which
was £90, one £60 and one £40.

 

we don't even have that - I just bung her 75% of the mortgage, which
gets paid from her account (mortgage is via her bank). She pays the
council tax and the house insurance, and I pay for everything else.

 

I wouldn't have really quit, but I did rant about doing so down the
pub. I wasn't the only one - this person was pretty much universally
despised.

 

Anything else just flies in the face of common sense.
Where one partner's income far exceeds the other just have a SO from one
sole account to the other to spread the goodies.

Also a personal credit/debit card each and another pair in joint names.

 

AFAICS, yes + they get more benefits than we do.

 

everything else is just food/drink shopping, clothes for the kids,
utilities and holidays. Actually, she pays the Virgin Media bill too,
now I think about it.

At the moment I take home roughly twice what she does, though when
she's finished a certain project at work, the idea is that she will be
leaving public sector employment and going contracting in the private
sector, and this situation will almost precisely be reversed. In which
case, she'll pay all of the mortgage and take some of the other stuff
from me too.

 

Found it here...
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/newsfeed/?name=Poland


--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

Did the pricier ones have more cups, or what? I can't even begin to
envisage spending even £40 on, say, a pair of undercrackers.

What is it with women and underwear? Or shoes, come to that?

 

Hm.

I pay the mortgage, all the bills, kids' money. The Doctor pays for most
of the food. Booze seems to fall mostly my way, but then I drink more of
it. Useless stuff like household goods and polish she buys as well.

Holidays: joint Abbey account and me, really.

This is why she's able to save loadsa money whereas I can't.

 

the expensive one actually has - quite ludicrously - a diamond set in
silver, dangling from the bit between the cups (I'm sure this bit has
a name, but I've no idea what it is).

oh, she only has about 20 pairs of shoes, which I understand is fairly
low.

 

I think a lot of the reason that there appear to be several
"successful" formulae, is that they're all based on households
bringing in a more than adequate amount of cash.

I'm sure several of them would fail, on a gross household income of,
say, £30k. (which I imagine to be more typical than those exhibited
here)

 

The problems arise when they look better in it, than out of it.

 

You want to go work for EBRD, then - *all* the Euro bank holidays, tax
free pay, and a 3% mortgage subsidy. Which is nice, if you've fully
offset. Blokey at work is effectively paid £9k a year to owe money on
his house, because his missus works for EBRD.

 

Diamond-studded bra?

<Thinks>

She's not Arab, is she?

 

Aye, current account each here, plus joint current account and a joint
savings.

The joint current gets enough money put into it by both of us on a
monthly basis to cover all the household outgoings. Then whatever's
left in our current accounts is ours to spend as we see fit without
asking the other. In practice every other large purchase comes out of
mine as well because I'm the higher earner.

 

My wife felt it made her 'lesser' than we when we experimented with
having everything come out of a joint account. Because the money had
to be quite carefully managed at that time in order that we didn't go
overdrawn she was having to ask me whenever she wanted to take a
tenner out of the bank. She didn't like having to effectively ask my
permission all the time so we switched to the joint account for bills
plus own accounts for salary surplus that we have now.

 

Sounds like it works for you and a couple of members of my family had
a similar arrangement.

Problem came when he died. His will stated everything was to be left
to her. She unfortunately couldn't find it. To this day there is
probably quite a large amount of money sitting in various accounts
that nobody in the family has any knowledge of.

 

no, it's more like a diamond pendant necklace, except the bra takes
the place of the actual necklace.

nah, Irish.

 

And who says they have to take all of it off?