| Jobs black spot
Inverclyde is to benefit from a jobs boost as online retailer Amazon is set to set up a
warehouse in the troubled region - and it's all down to a computer cock up! Red faced
officials at Scottish Enterprise admitted that they’d originally gone to the Amazon
site simply to buy a book about warehouses.
An embarrassed spokeshotdesker told The JT:
"You can just imagine our discomfiture when we discovered we were actually paying for
a warehouse. Oops!" |
The mistake was only
discovered when credit card records showed that instead of being charged $20 plus postage
for the required title, SE instead was debited a cool £1.6m - the cost of subsidising the
promised jobs. Hurrying to put a brave face on it, senior SE managers welcomed the
employment injection: "You know all that bollocks about moving the Scottish economy
to high-added-value jobs and getting away from simply being a supplier of cheap labour to
multinationals? Well, just forget we said anything will you?" |
