On 8 Jan, 12:06, abelard wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:58:33 GMT, pete wrote:
Hardly surprising: he's merely a manager, not a forecaster. I would
expect his bonus was paid after he met (or exceeded) soem management
targets, such as cost savings, delivering some major projects or the
like. Not how good his employees were at guessing what sort of weather
we were going to get - everyone knows that any forecast for more than
3 days ahead is pretty close to random chance, and always will be.
This sounds like a cheap shot.

1)do you have a link to his 'qualifications?


http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...t/profile.html

"John Hirst is chief executive of the Met Office.

Hirst spent 19 years with ICI and was chief executive of two of their
global businesses. He holds a degree in economics from Leeds
University."