Dougie wrote:tobester wrote:Trainee manager with CJ Lang and Son ltd, at the time they were trading as Freshways, which came from 10 old shoppers paradises, all the shops now trade as Spar, altho they are the company owned dept, lasted 10yrs with them brfore i left, place was full of back stabbing bastards and thieves who only survived cos they were friends with the area managers, they all got found out GOOD
I also worked for Freshways as a trainee manager nearly 20 years ago for the pricely annual sum of £6350 rising to an inflation busting £7396 for a 60 hour week. The laughs never started, though I lasted a year before leaving to go back to college and get out of retail after my charming boss told me I was 'too useless' to be a Freshways manager (probably true to be fair). Funnily enough, about a month after I departed, the guy was sacked for selling a couple of bicycles that had been kicking about in the storeroom for ages and pocketing the cash.
What store, i started in july 1991 at westwood square, before moving to broomhill (where i started out as a part timer in 88), then clarkston, thornliebank (where i got promoted), back to broomhill as asst manager, erskine, coatbridge sunnyside, then down to gala as manager, crofthead, bathgate (full of lying w@nkers), sunnyside then finally wishaw