All right for some

You'd think that those who are in public service having reached a high enough rank (scum floating to the top as it were) lived in a completely different world to the rest of us. Well, you would if you read this story...
Telegraph.

A former chief constable is to receive compensation of almost a quarter of a million pounds despite being forced to retire in disgrace, it was revealed yesterday.
Grahame Maxwell, 51, lost his job after admitting allegations of misconduct over the help he gave a relative during a North Yorkshire Police recruitment exercise.
The local police authority failed to renew his £133,000-a-year contract and he officially retired from the force on Tuesday.
Yesterday it emerged that his employers had no option but to pay him a compensation package totalling £247,636.
The payment has been described by one local MP as “ridiculous”.
Julian Smith, the Conservative MP for Skipton and Ripon, said taxpayers would find the figure “shocking”. He has raised the issue with Nick Herbert, the policing minister.

Now anyone else admitting to their employer "gross misconduct" would probably be sacked, not forcibly retired in disgrace, because retired implies a pension. As it is under nationally-agreed regulations over the employment of chief officers (as negotiated by the corrupt ACPO) because he was retired and his contract not renewed, he's entitled to compensation. Despite the fact that he's an odious little nepotist who attempted to make sure a relative jumped the queue into a police job. Where mere mortals in charge of recruitment would have to declare an interest if a relative tried to get a job in a company they worked for or be sacked if found out. It appears that different rules apply in the public services, where you can be "nearly sacked" and then have your contract not renewed leaving you in line for either a gold plated pension or compensation.
Then they wonder where the respect for the position has gone...