The BBC has invited staff to apply for voluntary redundancy as it attempts to make £125million in savings this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The broadcaster has asked its public service staff – not those in its commercial subsidiaries – to make a voluntary redundancy expression of interest.
It is feared that thousands of jobs may go as the corportation looks to make the saving after the pandemic left a huge hole in its budget.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind. The supermarkets still need shelf stackers.
With a monopoly position and fixed income from the TV license I’m not sure why the BBC would have a shortfall. Nice to see though.
If I was over 40, Caucasian, straight, male, educated at a Comprehensive, and blessed with a sense of humour I would take the money and run. I have no future there.
How can they blame lockdown for losing money.
Their income is fixed, and their out-goings have been reduced. Result happiness.
No, what has happened is that an audience held captive and subject to all day, all week, BBC lies, avoided truths, slanted reports interspersed with humourless right on comedy, preachy drama and plain shite, has decided to stop paying the tax. Result misery.
And as Brexit, a USofA presidential election, post pandemic pandemonium, and a Climate Conference in Glasgow loom it will only get worse. For us and for the BBC.
Radio 2 6am news led with Oriel College, Green King and Lloyds Of London all surrendering to the wokerists.
This when the Office Of National Statistics tell us that last week total deaths in London were considerably down on the five year average for that week (those who would have died last week having already died of/with Covid). A Stat to be rejoiced I would have thought.
Bad news makes good news.
In the words of the highly esteemed Professor Stanley Unwin; “Deep joy and chortleymode”.
Oh dear, how bad, do mind
Voluntary redundancy: the best leave with big pay-off; the useless remain
£125 million is less than years late, incomplete, new EastEnders set. Bin misery EastEnders soap, BBC should not be making soaps
They have run out of pre-Covid episodes of Eastenders so now viewers will be treated to endless banging on about masks/2 meters/protect the NHS as if they didn’t already know.
Actually, I don’t have a problem with them making drama – soaps included. They could sell these to make an income, which is fine by me. I have a problem when they bring wokeness into it and expect the license fee payers to foot the bill for being propagandised. See, for example, the dreadful War of the Worlds last year.
Problem is BBC is sh1t at selling to RoW, BBC Worldwide never makes a profit
Drama is not soap, commercial stations do soaps well, BBC Eastenders soap is miserable & negativity, it doesn’t inform, educate or entertain. They’ve miised a trick by not filming it in B&W
Sell EastEnders to ITV, C4, C5, world accept highest offer, or bin it. BBC binned F1 & QED despite good viewing figures
Providing people aren’t forced to pay for it, it’s not an issue. If they want to pay a subscription to watch it, then fine. I don’t have a problem, just as I don’t have a problem if they don’t and it withers away.
Shame I can’t add to their pain by declining to pay telly tax more than once a year.
I suppose you could always sign up and then cancel it again.
Doonhamer makes a good point, how can the lockdown have cost the BBC money? Their income is fixed, I know that thousands of people are now refusing to pay the licence fee but surely they are a drop in the ocean in the big scheme of things. As for outgoings, why would they have gone up? Something doesn’t quite add up.
Brugen made the point first actually.
They’d struggle with the supermarket jobs: they’d only want to fill shelves on the left.
Oh… very good.
I imagine the “decolonialised” shelf would be well stocked and I could get most things cheap
They’d be wanting to liberate the breadfruit and plantain.
The Beeb are not really considering redundancies – if they were that millionaire idiot footballer would be first to be terminated (I wish!). No, what they are doing is preparing for the next round of negotiations about increasing the Telly Tax.