Monday, July 20, 2009

A Well-Planned Retirement

A Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:








Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England , there is a parking


lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.

It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a


ticket machine charging cars £1 (about $1.40) and


coaches £5 (about $7).

This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25


years. Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work.

"Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd better


phone up the City Council and get them to send a new


parking attendant . . . "

"Err . . . no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your


responsibility."



"Err . . . no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the


attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't


he?"


"Err . . . no!" insisted the Council.

Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain


(presumably), is a man who had been taking the


parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $560) per


day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7


days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million


($7 million - or $280,000 every year for 25 years)!

And no one even knows his name.




Extra note -- Somewhere along the line you would think
that someone would wonder were the money is going!

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