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jno - // they're righting past wrongs. That will take time and money, always does. Someone's bound to get hurt and sometimes it will be the BBC, who've perpetrated it all. //
No argument, but to me, the notion of telling one section of the workforce that it is not worth the same as the other, and then telling the more expensive section that it has to lose money in order to come down to the lower level, meaning it isn't worth the money either, is a comprehensive method of alienating everyone simultaneously.
What's wrong with - 'Ladies, we are a deeply chauvenistic and out-of-touch bunch of old-school ties who still think Lord Reith in in charge, and gels should do the typing and make the tea.
We are deeply sorry, and are happy to recognise our appalling attitudes, and pay you in line with your mail colleagues, because you deserve as much as they are paid.
Oh, and Eddie, we should have given you Newsnight, we dropped of there as well, but of course we will give you Question Time because you are the right person for the job.'
Problems solved.
There you are BBC, you didn't have to pay six figures for a 'management consultant' - it's just common sense, and that's free.