Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 21 April 2007

V annoyed. Am I the only one around here who hasn’t been offered a job at Google?

issue 21 April 2007

MONDAY

V annoyed. Am I the only one around here who hasn’t been offered a job at Google? Not a single phone call from a headhunter in the whole time I’ve been working my little Dolce & Gabbana boots off for the good of Modern Conservatism.

The whole of CCHQ is downing tools and scuttling off to make megabucks in the private sector. Nigel says it’s the Brain Drain he’s been warning about since Jed issued a memo telling everyone that working on Project Dave was reward enough in itself and ‘let’s hear no more off-message nonsense about pay and conditions. We’ve all had to make sacrifices. And don’t forget: seasonally adjusted General Well-Being is up 5 per cent, year-on-year!’ I thought this was odd, because I heard there were four people including Jed who are earning a million between them. But Nigel said that was a sacrifice from Jed’s point of view.

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