The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Special offer? Special offer my bumWhen a student, I had a horrible job working at a reasonably well-known cash and carry. Oh, all right then: Makro.
Every now and again, I had to stick the reductions stickers on various already-terrible items for sale. Legally - Ms Swipe, can you help me out here? - goods have to be on sale for a certain length of time at a certain price x before you can say that they've been reduced from x to y.
In practice, what this means is that you look up the new price x, and make up the pre-reduction price y. Make y too high, and noone'll believe it - but keep it plausible an noone'll ask.
OK - it's hardly up there with the Barlow Clowes swindle, and nothing that you didn't already suspect. But it's therapeutic for me to make it public, so tough.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 16:07,
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