The Following is a genuine job vacancy for employment as a TV licence officer
Enquiry Officers | Warrington, Cheshire Capita
Description: Enquiry Officers Salary + uncapped commission (2011 average gross income £23,615) + full time flexible working Based Warrington area
From well-loved soaps and football matches to hard-hitting documentaries and global news, the TV Licence is at the heart of world-class programming. And if you’ve great negotiation and customer service skills, this is your chance to secure this vital funding and ensure that people have the licence they need.
You’ll make enquiries at selected residential addresses to explain, enforce and ultimately sell. As well as great benefits that include flexible working, pension and full training you’ll enjoy generous commission too.
If you’ve a car and full driving licence, join our FTSE1OO company and call 0300 790 6033 or email tvlrecruitment@ capita.co.uk.
Closing date: 7th December 2012.
Successful candidates will be subject to a CRB check.
The BBC spend £560 million to make £200 million
The part of interest in that vacancy is "sell". One of the videos shown an inspector is told he is a salesman "NO I'M NOT" he claims. Well in the job advert it is in black and white "ultimately sell" so he is in fact a salesman.
Capita the company behind the licence inspectors is also providing a criminal records service for the Home Office .
The BBC is set to renew a TV Licence outsourcing contract with Capita for eight years, at a value of £560 million, after selecting the supplier as preferred bidder. That's around £9 per person for every man woman and child living in the UK being used from the licence fee to pay this company.
Capita claims fines collected from people not having a licence amount to around £25 million a year so at best the BBC over the next 8 years can expect to make £200 million this is after paying £560 million to get it. Can BBC bosses really be that stupid?