Here is a question. Imagine that you are legally entitled to a £1 million bonus for one whole year of hard slog and stress, but however, everyone says or thinks you should not take the money as the company that you work for has not made any money. In fact, had it not been the help of those who can only dream of that kind of money, it is lucky that you still have a job. Would you take the money?

Would you take it if in fact you made money for the company but some 'blue eyed' multi-million bonus boy or even the greedy boss himself gambled it all away on vapour profits and blew away all those long adrenalin filled hours on mortgages and loans that had no chance of ever being paid. Would you now take that bonus? What if those risk taking idiots have now been fired with nice fat pensions and golden handshakes that are actually platinum?

Ok, ok just to make it interesting. If the year before the sh*t hit the fan, you received £1 million pounds in bonuses, would you take the money? Never mind that you now have two big houses (in negative equity now) in the countryside, a yacht and ten expensive cars, investments that have been heading south at a rapid rate and you have no cash in the bank. Would you take the bonus? What if your previous three years bonuses were over £5m, after all last year has been kinda dry for you, would you?

Would you like for some politician, who has no idea of the work, hours and stress that you endured over the last year, point at you as a shark and accuse of you of greedy excess? Those same people who have their noses in the trough year after year accusing you of free loading on the tax payer? Would you take the bonus just to tell them to shove it?

What if your bonus was only a £1,000 pounds, would you take it then?

Be honest, think about it and don't throw stones.

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7878418.stm

[First published on my NotTheNews blog on specified date]