It always gets me that someone actually had to go to the effort of
putting in a freedom of information request in order to find out what
the BBC's salary grades meant...
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Sent: 07 September 2010 11:01
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] Internet Standards role
Yeah, we really should get our job descriptions checked for
plain english- the BBC has a whole language of it's own in many areas,
and unfortunately I think it can act as a barier to getting people in.
If people would like to give us feedback or send us questions
regarding this job add we'll try and get answers back to all. They'll
be public though- in order to ensure it's a fair and open process.
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On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Richard P Edwards
<[email protected]> wrote:
Aha, thanks Simon ... confusion over. :-)
On 7 Sep 2010, at 11:39, Simon Thompson wrote:
9 is the pay grade, not the number of days - 9D
means a grade 9 person on days conditions.
It may be a continuing or fixed term contract.
On 7 September 2010 10:23, Richard P Edwards
<[email protected]> wrote:
This is why I find the 9 days bit
intriguing. In the "old" days I used to put in 120 hour weeks, so I
know exactly what you mean by addiction... the interesting part is that
the UK seems to have gone to part time contracts where, as Simon says,
you can work an 80 hour week with no overtime.
OK, you get days off in lieu, but in
that kind of job I suspect that finding the free days to take off could
be pretty difficult... unless you take a long holiday every summer... in
which case the BBC office effectively "closes" for that time.
I think that I can see this ending is
all sorts of chaos. :-) In my case, we did not get paid days off in
lieu... so if you needed to sleep you had to swallow the financial
inconvenience. Neither way is perfect, but calling for a contractual 9
day week seems somehow unsettling for me.
Looks like a great job though, they'd
also prefer someone "uncompetitive" - now that made me smile.
Regards
RichE
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