Have to say, what surprised me about this story was how little your average TV star is paid. We all kind of assume that once you’ve made it in front of the cameras, you’re minted. What some of the ladies are getting is almost laughable. And if Jeremy Vine presented Points of View every day rather than once a week, he’d still only earn 1/10 of the salary of a mid-range Premiership footballer; or 1/5 as much as the average big company CEO. End of career counselling, kids.
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.
Here’s a future problem that will doubtless be kicked down the road until it becomes a crisis. There’s a whole generation who may never be able to afford to buy their own homes.