I respectfully disagree.But he’s not flogging his own stuff. He’s trying to advertise a service that benefits NHS staff. It’s completely different imo.
By this same argument one could argue that Clemmie was advertising a product (albeit hers) of which the proceeds go to charity. This chap is being paid to advertise a profit-making service which, yes, you could argue is for the benefit of NHS staff but also the benefit of the profiteers who are making money each time an NHS employee ‘benefits’ from one of their discounts.
I think his methods are equally as dubious as Clemmie’s here. Put simply NHS staff should not be using their paid NHS time and/or NHS resources to do their paid-for advertising second jobs. I would be fired for doing this in my line of work, and my line of work isn’t funded by the taxpayer.