David Cameron pig allegations could harm UK productivity

[T_i_B]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/david-cameron-pig-allegations-could-harm-uk-productivity-10511347.html

Allegations that Prime Minister David Cameron put "a private part of his anatomy into a dead pig's mouth" is costing the UK in lost productivity as employees become distracted from their work.

That's the view of Alan Price, senior employment lawyer at Peninsular Business Services, who said that they had received calls from employers asking what to do about staff who had been distracted by the allegations.

"One manager rang and said everyone was looking at Twitter," Price said. "It’s because of smart mobiles, which means technology is in front of everyone. Before you would buy the paper and go home and talk about it at home, where now people have access to information all the time and it is very hard to switch off from the outside world at work.”

Price said that a media event will cause a spike in the number of calls they receive from managers and human resources staff witnessing an increased number of staff distracted by their smartphones. “Something like this normally lasts 24-48 hours, you see employers complaining about distractions,” Price said.

[Nitram]

1. Tempest in a Teapot. nt

[Runningdawg]

2. I can't help but think

this story was taken directly from a B-A-D si-fy series called Black Mirror.
The plot: A princess is kidnapped by terrorists. The country makes all arrangements to pay the ransom ASAP, but the terrorists don't want ransom, they want the country's Prim Minister to have anal sex with a pig on live TV. They are given 48 hours to comply. In that time the powers that be, run polls and call in all types of advisers and decide the PM MUST carry through, it is the will of the people, they want their Princess back.
It was a REALLY crappy episode but this book must be worse, since its a direct rip-off.