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This could drag in more countries.It wasn’t Woolworth’s.
I won’t name it.I did have a Xmas job in Woolworth’s in 1993.
I was on the till, age 33, and the 21 yr old manager was supervising me, when a little old lady spoke to him and pointed at me:
“It’s good to see the young ‘uns getting a proper start in life.”
Woolworth’s had the habit of frisking all staff about to clock off early, in front of customers.
An amusing true story. I worked in Debenhams in the 1980s, where a Mr. Mackay-like security guard gave us all the once-over at the end of the day.
Years later I bumped into him (he was a customer, like me), in a CD shop. He shouted, with everyone turning to look at me: “STILL ON THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW?”
As I was leaving the shop, he boomed again, with everyone turning: “KEEP YOUR NOSE CLEAN!”As part of the induction process to working in a department store a few years ago, I sat with young wage-slave hopefuls at a large table facing the managers. When it came time for a trade union rep to talk to us, we were told in advance that we don’t have to listen to him. While the young people (all avid fans of Love Island etc.) sat with heads bowed in silence and stayed silent when he asked for questions, I engaged with him, while the managers glared at me.
Back at the jobcentre I was summoned to a private office and told “You’re a troublemaker, aren’t you?”No I didn’t. Google banker. It is now the term also for a bank clerk, and they all call themselves bankers.
In the days of Chaplin workers knew they were workers. They may have sheepishly followed warmongers and idolised monarchs, but they knew they were working class.
The workers were the good guys in movies. The underdog was championed.
Now, the underdog is a criminal whom the heroic cops deal with, and the regular fare for workers are “reality” shows and idolisation of the parasitic super-rich.
Now, if you tell someone they are working class, or tell a bank clerk he isn’t a banker, you’ll be shunned.
Just like telling someone the biological fact that they are an animal!So you go along with the Western media’s narrative that it was “unprovoked” and that it is “Putin’s war”, the personal choice of an evil ruler of an evil empire (and so presumably you can’t blame the US, NATO and Britain)?
You know better than to make this crass assumption, ALB.
This is like the dinosaur-denying conspiraloons who retort to evolutionists: “So you believe Jurassic Park, do you?”https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vkqwe9wwdo
Appears Pyongyang is sending troops after all.
Will the US allow Taiwan to declare independence?
How will China vs Philippines cold war be ended without China taking military action, bringing in the US? Can it remain as it is indefinitely, without triggering war?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/11/put-phone-down-habit-reading-books-english-oxford
Getting re-accustomed to printed books.
