Costing the spouse. A Christmas tale by J P Scrooge

Food for thought, an interesting article. I always remember when they asked the man at the NASA Space Centre who cleaned the toilets what he did for a job, he said "I help put men on the moon". Of course he does - he's part of a team. And a team is a single entity Right! Just like the admin department of any firm, they don't produce any income either do they? So if you don't actually produce any income that can be quantified how can your job be costed based on income? A team makes a profit or a loss, not individuals which is what a husband and wife team does. Why should they be treated any different because they happen to be married?

I love the tale. But it can't be true. Surely no one could be so anti-family that they could completely ignore the in-calculable value of team, security, spouse looking after the children, etc. etc.
Surely no one can be so blind as to ignore everything that goes on behind the scenes to enable the hum-drum "real work" in the "office" to go on?

Oh-dear, I forgot politicians...

Brilliantly written.
But who is J P Scrooge. Can you run a competition to guess the author?
I'll put in my bid: Simon Sweetman

Rebecca

......that some people know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing.