stray fags?: call the smoking police

Anyone who deals with the BBC will know how unusual it is. There are few organisations that would publish a booklet about how to get through a revolving door. Today we had one of many surreal meetings that could only happen at the beeb. One or two highlights from a very long list; 'policy simplification', a process, not to be confused with making things easier to understand; regarding the security (or lack of it) at BBC buildings, they promised to share a recent report into the subject however they would have to remove all the bits concerned with security; finally, a smoker on the Union side asked what action was being taken to ensure that smokers only smoke in designated areas- we could offer a simple solution - appoint a team of enforcers, the smoking police. They could easily offer these jobs to the people they are currently trying to sack, for the added bonus of killing two birds with the same stone.