Controversy over tradesman's bonus; Mailbag.SHOULDN'T the tradesman who earned the big bonus be congratulated? He didn't get his bonus by sitting behind a desk for 37 hours pushing papers around; he earned it by hard graft hard graft hard n by sheer hard graft → durch harte Arbeit hard graft n by sheer hard graft → lavorando da matti . He would have been doing about 25 hours extra a week. I was a Building Services employee and I know how hard it is to get the top bonus. He was doing the same amount of work as at least two men, which would equate to him doing over 124 hours a week. When you look at the amount of tax Mr Brown would have raked in, shouldn't the tradesman be given an award or honoured for his gargantuan gar·gan·tu·an adj. Of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic. See Synonyms at enormous. gargantuan Adjective huge or enormous [after Gargantua, a giant in Rabelais' effort? The only slight criticism I have is, if there was that much overtime available shouldn't extra staff have been set on? JOHN R ELLAM ELLAM Eulerian-Lagrangian localized adjoint method Dalton |
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