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Friday, February 10, 2006

One of the stories related by "Graham Norton" relates to a previous government project on which he worked.

"We worked in a series of buildings which were in need of repair. One morning a chap left his desk to get a coffee. When he returned, a lump of the ceiling was on his chair and the rain was dripping through the roof into the back of his monitor. He immediately alerted the site supervisor and his own supervisor to the risk, and waited having been ordered not to touch anything."

"About an hour later two chaps turned up with a clip board and made notes before walking away. Meanwhile the rain continued to drip into the monitor."

"Two hours later, four more chaps turned up with clipboards, clustered round the offending monitor, made notes and walked away saying that they could not switch the monitor off - it was against Health and Safety procedures"

"Some little while later a seventh chap turned up and removed the lump of ceiling and put a plastic bag over the PC monitor - which was still left running"

"It was two days before the monitor was powered off, removed and replaced"

He did not explain whether the ceiling had been fixed - but I think he explained clearly why we pay so much tax.

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