LCD Views is fronting the red top newspaper campaign today demanding an answer to why a well known public servant has been demoted at work but without receiving a pay cut.
The revelation of the demotion, came without any details of financial sanctions accompanying the drop in status shortly after 11am yesterday morning. This has lead to furious speculation that the individual concerned is to continue to receive full salary and bonus for a position a grade higher than they now occupy.
“It’s a scandal,” famous royal watcher Brian Cox told LCD Views, during an early morning Skype call from his hunting estate outside Balmoral,
“apparently a full grown man has been moved down a full rung in the management structure and replaced by a new born baby.
An infant? Seriously.
How qualified at waving and smiling is a one day old?
Even by days two or three they aren’t going to be able to cut ribbons. Actually it will be several years before they’re even allowed to handle a pair of serious scissors, of the kind needed to cut a ceremonial ribbon with one cut.”
Smashing champagne against ships is right out too.
“That’s my point! What the hell is going on. This is a public servant we’re talking about here. We need answers.”
Do you think work place politics are involved?
“What? Senior colleagues of the man decided to go to all the trouble of bringing in an entirely unknown individual just to impress who holds the power? That takes a minimum of nine months to pull off, that sort of move, pretty hard to keep secret. It’s possible. Anything is possible in this day and age.”
The man himself hasn’t officially responded to our direct question regarding what he will do with his salary? Will he give it to charity? Now that he’s being paid as a fifth, but is actually a sixth?
“He already does a hell of a lot for charity,” Brian responded to that, “we know that. We respect that. It’s a very important charity too. So you can take that line of questioning and shove off.”
Fair criticism. He does assist a lot of people who would otherwise be much less valued.
“You try being born with a silver spoon as big as a palace up your backside but imposed celebrity too. That’s not actually the birth lottery I would want to win. A few steps back and a spoon the size of just a mansion maybe.”
We get it.
Let’s get back to being replaced in the management structure by an infant?
“Seriously!” Brian agreed, “that’s the scandal right there. A grown man replaced by a one minute year old and expected to answer to the infant. It’s just not fair. It’s probably justice that he’s kept full pay.”