What is Greed?

Planning never sent the demand notice to Hill Group for financial remedies for the 13 apprenticeships they never provided including the six residents they abused on the journey to giving none of them an apprenticeship (see The Five Stages of Grief ).   I suppose that was too much to hope for.   And, at this time of year, it is warranted to be sentimental and remind ourselves that hope for our fellow man, especially those less fortunate than us, should be at the forefront of our minds.   Sure, didn’t Jacob Marley’s ghost tell Scrooge, “Mankind was my business.   The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were all my business”? I raised this with my line manager, the Head of Service, yesterday in our fortnightly one-to-one meeting under the unspoken heading of an existential crisis of my job: what’s the point of my monitoring developers if, when we have such an egregious case of one not making their planning contributions, Plannin...