And you're helping the retailers by being in Barbados?
Worse than Hitler you, worse than Hitler.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:04, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

i am helping virgin
with whom we are flying. and thomas cook, who booked it. and you can bet your sweet ass i'll be hitting duty free like a bitch. on top of all the christmas shopping i am - er - yet to do.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:10, Reply)

Right, so not the high street retailers. On boxing day. That you're upset about.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:14, Reply)

pfffft
don't make facile points. spendthrift that i am, i think they'd be much more bothered about the hundreds of thousands of boxing day sales shoppers, somehow.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:15, Reply)

Just seems like you can get all rageful about something that's not even going to effect you.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:17, Reply)

sigh
1 - this particular strike will not affect me on a purely personal level, but other strikes have, do, and will. they keep doing it, they call strikes all the time, and it is making their arguments lose all credibility.

2 - i act for a huge number of struggling retailers. they are dependent on boxing day sales if they are to pay the december quarter rent.

3 - i act for a huge number of landlords. if their tenants don't pay the december quarter rent, they default on their loans.

etc etc etc.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:19, Reply)

And you think a ficticious strike is going to change the economic conditions that much?

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:21, Reply)

if you've never tried to work in london during a strike
you don't really understand what it does to literally millions of people. who have nothing to do with it, except pay to use the tube every day. it's just not a decent way to go about negotiating.

particularly given the amount of times they do it. you can't tell me that there is no deliberate malice in the choice of day.

yes, if they go ahead, it will cost the economy a fortune.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:24, Reply)

Right. Not much up on industrial relations then swipey.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:26, Reply)

you get off your ivory tower and move to london
you work your arse off

you find that you can't get to/from work or get to client meetings or hospital or whatever it is you need to do

you find you can't go out that night or people can't come to your party or your wedding

you spend a fortune on taxis or you queue for hours and hours for buses

and then 3 weeks later they do it all again

THEN i might listen to your opinion on people who think it's ok to strike and put literally millions of other people through all that
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:30, Reply)

HAHAHA!! Yeah, I'll get off my ivory tower in Glasgow and move to rural London.
Fuck off you tedious shit, you'll be in Barbados anyway.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:33, Reply)

ah, a lovely personal insult to end it with?
marvellous work.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:36, Reply)

No problem, you earned it.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 15 Dec 2011, 10:39, Reply)