Posted By Barrie (Badger) Etter As I won't be near a computer tomo' I thought to post the following I've just received. A sobering thought Can you imagine a company that has a little more than 600 employees but has the following statistics? • 29 have been accused of spouse abuse • 7 have been arrested for fraud • 19 have been accused of writing bad cheques • 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses • 3 have done time for assault • 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit • 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges • 8 have been arrested for shoplifting • 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits • 84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year • Almost all have been claiming salaries & expenses disproportionate to the impact they have upon the running of the business. Which organization is this? The 635 members of the United Kingdom House of Commons; the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws, some of which impact on our profession, each year the aim of which is to make the UK a better place in which to live. Surprised? One should be for less than 8% of them have ever held a job outside the academic/public/TU domains and, therefore, have little grasp of the realities of life. No wonder the goverment is in the state it is!

Posted By bereznikov Interesting statistics!