The credit crunch truly is starting to bite at work. Our daily fruit delivery was stopped and then reinstated when a revolt was threatened and they realised they could save the 40 grand a year it costs by sacking a few people instead (Hurrah!). There are no more free dinners (unless a client is present – and lets be honest – in that circumstance, what the hell is the point), but worst of all the instant coffee being provided is no longer Gold Blend, but regulation Nescafe. To quote Swiss Tony (I think)
“This coffee tastes like the strainings of the Devil’s jock strap”
I’m strongly considering bringing my own coffee from home. And people in the Congo think they have problems.
Like most people at the moment I blame the BBC for all this. Not the credit crunch itself, but my perception of how much I am suffering. BBC Breakfast leads the way, veering today from the genocide in Congo one minute to the far more pressing concern of people who own horses that can no longer afford them the next.
“I’ve had horses my whole life” they sobbed.
Really it was the most depressing story about poverty I’ve heard since reading about Cuthbert and Olly Le Fervre who can no longer be educated privately as their dad worked for Lehman Brothers. This follows hot on the heels of a piece Breakfast ran about the rising cost of staple goods in your shopping trolley. What product has suffered the most devastating increase; crossiants and pain au chocolat apparently up 47% on last year. The nation will presumably not be laid low with scurvy and rickets following cessation of French pastry rations, however the WI coffee mornings will not be as well catered as before.
Is all this really news? Presumably BBC Breakfast knows its target audience, and all the really bad news is over on GMTV or the Wright Stuff, but in an era where people are being turfed out of their houses, surely there are better human interest stories to be had?
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