Our store manager is suggesting we cash in on the lack of Christmas entertainment locally by setting up a grotto on the site. He thinks we can install a little booth that can easily be cleaned every few minutes, where a socially-distanced Santa can wave happily at passing children, and charge them ten quid each for a poorly-wrapped toy and a promise of a virus-free visit on Christmas Eve.
I was so bored in the meeting I fuelled his enthusiasm by saying he should present his plans to Head Office and he would have my full support in making it work. In truth, it is the latest in a long line of inept management choices made by inept managers, and yet another example of why Those Above Us should stop encouraging recent graduates to ‘think outside the box’ and start encouraging them to learn the fecking basics instead.
I’m confident this will be shut down long before it becomes a possibility. Dragging families full of grotty, snotty children out in the middle of an ongoing pandemic to queue up at a venue where the elderly and vulnerable want to buy their vital shopping? Even our Senior Management can’t be money-mad enough to let this move forward……
RC 24-9-20
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