But you forget, it may only be around £10 an hour for you...multiply that for all the staff that are in your circumstances. I expect £1000 comes in handy when they are planning the catering arrangements for managers (who have been laid off by the restructuring) leaving do's. You know the ones where none of the road staff are invited, where they bring over the left over food down to the crew room on open trays!? Yes that's the one...when you've not been back to station for 5 or 6 hours...then you get this wonderful gift from upstairs...yep lovely dried, stale fishpaste sandwiches! Oh well!