NHS Pen-Pushers Snatch George Michael Tickets
ONE imagines that when George Michael, he of the grey designer stubble and penchant for sleep-driving, gave 400 free tickets for his concert to Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and another 620 to Plymouth Primary Care Trust, they were meant as a thank you to the nurses for the care his mother had received before her death in 1997.
Well, according to the Mirror, a large number of the tickets for his Plymouth gig were hijacked by the Trust’s admin staff.
“Admin snatched hundreds”, says a livid nurse. And she’s not the only one… But she is the only one quoted in the paper.
However, in true bureaucratic fashion, the Trusts replied to the criticism, saying that the pop superstar had requested that the tickets “go to all staff”.
So did the parking attendants, cafeteria staff, flower sellers and cleaners also get to go? One imagines not.
Posted: 10th, July 2007 | In: Money Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 7th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
GEORGE MICHAEL - 25 LIVE TOUR ATHENS - GREECE
THE CONCERT WAS FANTASTIC. HIS VOICE IS FANTASTIC AND SO IS HIS MUSIC AND LYRICS.
LET US ALL BE WHAT WE ARE AND LIVE IN PEACE TOGETHER, WITHOUT FIGHTING AND BASHING EACH OTHER.
THIS CONCERT FOR THE NURSES WAS A LOVELY GESTURE AND LET IT BE SEEN FOR THAT.
LET THE FANS SHOW HIM HIS APPRECIATION SO THAT HE KEEPS ON TOURING AND LET THE OTHERS JUST BE SILENT. THERE IS TO MUCH NEGATIVITY IN THE WORLD.
PILI
July 11th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Point being is simple the man *GM* gave free tickets to charity now whether there are lines of abuse of the system it cannot be controlled by the man himself but by those who distributed it.
I haven’t heard of other artists do the same . There should be others out there like GM trying to reach out to different commmunities and forward there thanks.
Good on you George - its a blessed thing to do. ITS THE THOUGHT that counts.!
July 10th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
If tickets were offered to hospital staff on a FCFS basis it means that those who saw the message first got the tickets. If George Michael had specified “nurses only” probaly the alert would have been sent to “nurses only”.
You can argue administrative staff sit behind computers and read their email more often, thus have better chances of getting tickets. That is true! A draw would have been more fair but there’s no time to organise that when tickets are offered on the day before the show! Email alert seems reasonable.