Lahvlann: Now seeking the spirit of the yellow duck - 5th Dec forward

TWODAY'S De Brand NEW & IMPROVED so to speak 2-18 Joe Duffy Wurkday Calculator and dat:

Wurkdays in 2-18 and dat: 243
Joe Shows: 197
No Show Joe Shows: 46
Breakeens 4 Joe: 46
PBH (de full-time host of de show) Shows: 39
PBH guest appearances and dat: 1
D'Omen Shows: 5
AN Udder Shows: 0
Good Fryday No Show by nobody at all at all: 1
De Budget Day No Show by nobody at all at all: 1

NEW FEATURE SO TO SPEAK:

Fateen's Estimated Fees (De FEF Matrix so to speak) to date dis year:
AT LEAST €492,500*

(not including de EXTRA FEES for 3 days of De Beast From De East TV + Radio Simulcast Xtravaganza + likely "Danger Money" for travelling to and from wurk in de snow and dat nor d'expenses for driving, vittels and de overnightin' often mere days in advance of a FunnyFryday. Wurking class man wit de wurking class wurk ettic and dat.



*de fees are calculated at €2,500 per show x days dat Fateen is in so to speak. Dose fees are likely conservative and outdated as day are 2 years old so to speak.
I'm including Good Fryday as a Wurkday as it is not an official Bank Holiday/Holiday Day. Even Pat Kenny is in Newstalk FFS, but no-one in RTE of course of course.[/I]


De famed and oft-quoted €416K figure is earnings from 2-14, published 2 years later in 2-16:
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/...list-1.2574342

RTÉ are very slow (2 years+ is the norm) to report the fees paid to contractors under their absolutely BS excuse of commercial sensitivity - yes, because we all know CNN, NBC. BBC etc. are literally beating down the doors of this elite broadcasting talent to poach them away.

The last published figures were in 2-17, which reported on fees paid in 2-15.
https://www.thejournal.ie/rte-pay-3524877-Aug2017/

We're still waiting for the 2-16 figures!

There's an attempted slight of hand at play even then as these fees make no mention of days worked etc. So a raise in the per day/show rate coupled with increased holidays could net the host roughly the same gross fees figure, with many more days off included in the work year. This allows RTÉ to say (at a topline level) that they paid X less this year, allows X to say "I took a decrease in salary this year" and ticks all the BS PR boxes you need. To get to the real nub of this, you need to examine like with like.

Crude working example for illustrative purposes:
John Bluffy gets €1K per show in 2-14 and does 155 shows = €155K
John Bluffy gets €1.5K per show in 2-15 and does 100 shows = €150K

The key is that John Bluffy worked significantly less time to accumulate roughly the same fees; but both parties can say that fees went down; when in reality they increased on a like for like basis.

These are some of the reasons I created De Wurkday Calculator. The €2,500 per show is an estimate based on 2-14 figures. Now answer me this, do you honestly think they're still on the same day rate 4 years later?

And don't forget, someone has a few extra Brucey Bonus Fees this year from TV:
Lahv Lahn Call Back (+ repeats)
De Papal Visit (lots of hours on that "project")
Simulcast TV appearances during De Beast From De East

But we'll have to wait until 2020 to hear what he took in fees this year.

De Childers Dat Did Doyed In De Rising And Dat Hostible Becasue Dare Was No Hostible In Draw-da Ta Treat Dem In At De Toyme So to Speak Hostible

or

DCDDDIDRADHBDWNHIDTTDIADTSTSH for short.


It takes a lot of munny ta luke dis cheap sez I.

zell12 wrote: »

I guess these vijeo promos did not catch on
https://twitter.com/rteliveline/status/755371702029344768

Lots of food I do be gobblin'
40 Chins day do be wobblin',
Come along for de roide,
We'll discuss sewercoyde,
Walking in Da Lahn Lahn Wonderland and dat so to speak.



Seriously, check out de chins in dat video.

Jeff2 wrote: »

The man is in the gym just after the crack of down photos are posted.

Look at the video in the twitter post Jeff.

BTW, he's said before he goes to the gym to read the papers.

BBFAN wrote: »

It just goes to show the quality of poster here that there's very little said about a man paying taxes all his life, now dying and hasn't been paid since early November?

The best (worst) comment I can find is the one above that infers he must have few bob in the bank if the community welfare officer won't help him.

So fcuking what? This man deserves to be paid what he paid all his life into to?


I know you guys only post here to be smart arses but you need to take a look at yourselves if you've lost all the empathy you ever had.

Wasn't listening yesterday but a quick glance at the thread suggested (note: I'll admit to not having read it fully so I'm not stating anything definitively) that no-one was slagging the man himself and most (if not all) were critical of the system and others who may have less shall we say credible reasons for claiming.