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Scottish minister blames sons watching football for £11,000 iPad roaming bill (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's not a phone. It's an iPad. And we don't know who it belongs to.

Business devices for business. Business pay for them. Personal devices for personal stuff. You pay for them.

If you rack up an £11k bill on your business device, and you are expensing it from public funds, you have to justify it to the public. If you rack up an £11k bill on your personal devices nobody cares as its your bill.

It's not rocket science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

An iPad most likely associated with his business mobile plan. Companies generally cover the roaming charge for it's employees because it means that employee is reachable if shit hits the fan while they are abroad. Mine does, and it's silly to assume it would be any different for someone holding public office.

The only difference here is he went from a country where roaming is free (or like $1/GB), to a country where it is crazy expensive, racked up a ludicrous bill on his company plan, and then hoped no one would notice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to go ahead and ignore what you wrote. It's largely incorrect and screams 'I havent read the article'. My answer would be what I wrote previously so I'd be repeating myself

Just as a heads up, we use £ in Scotland. Not $.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

using his parliamentary iPad as a data hotspot,

Wow the article says the exact same thing I did, what are the odds

Just as a heads up, we use £ in Scotland. Not $.

Most people can infer fundamental meaning from conversational context, sorry that is lost on you