Bank of England staff have been told their ‘Wellbeing Centre’ will close if they don’t learn how to use the loos properly. Welcome to silly season…
An email went round to staff today:
“Dear Member,
We have had two incidents this week of faeces found on the floor of the showers and toilets in the Wellbeing Centre Gents changing rooms. This is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Should this continue, we will be forced to temporarily suspend some services/facilities.
Kind regards
[REDACTED]
Bank of England Wellbeing Centre”
The Bank is also under fire this week after the Telegraph reported that 1,040 employees were allowed to work from abroad and they spent more than 12 days doing so last year. It’s no fun working from the beach – sand gets in your laptop – unless of course they aren’t working at all…
The taxpayer is of course funding this gym, internal occupational health, and fitness facility located in the basement vaults of the Bank of Threadneedle Street. Callum McGoldrick, Investigations Campaign Manager at the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said:
“Bank of England staff should be focused on sorting out the economy, not making a complete mess of their own changing rooms. Bosses need to clean up their act… literally.”
When they said the institution was a busted flush…
Burnham confirms he spoke to Trump last night about drilling in the North Sea:
“I indicated in the phone call that we had a week last Monday that I would take a pragmatic approach when it comes to the North Sea, and that is my intention as we go forward from here. There is a resource there. When people are struggling, we can’t ignore that. Hence, me indicating that to the president…”