Are mobile phone shop staff the modern used car salesmen now that used car salesmen have mostly improved their act?
Not the ones I’ve come across. For a start, I’d outfit all the staff in the car showrooms with neat shirts with the car marque logo on, so they’d look a bit more professional. The greeting / reception desk in the showroom we visited last month, was staffed by young ladies dressed in black dresses, some definitely more suitable for a night out than going to work, plus high heels and far too much make up. The sales men ( and I didn’t see any women) were obviously allowed to choose their own suits. The older ones looked reasonable, but the younger ones evidently don’t get paid enough and were wearing suits with jackets that they must have outgrown in their teens. Well, that’s what it looked like to me, maybe the latest fashion is for a jacket where only the middle button can be done up, leaving an expanse of shirt and tie visible both above and below it. Not exactly confidence inspiring.
We bought a car recently from a bunch of lying snakes. The woman who sold it had 2" long pointy nails - really. I would love to have asked her how she managed personal hygiene without doing herself a mischief.
Maybe it's an american thing, abdicating responsibility. I know when diving in the caribbean, that I take my own kit, and I insist on putting it together and checking it myself. The divemasters thought it strange, but after once or twice me taking apart what they put together, and doing it myself , they left me alone. I double check, mine and my partners. Our lives depend on it. I have noticed how many americans are quite happy to accept strange kit, someone else has put together, strap it on and go. No checks. If my life or anothers depend on it, I check, and check again.
That’s different @fidgetbones … a problem with your diving gear will only kill you. Same thing applies with skydiving … once they’ve had their training they check their own chute and harness. And target shooters load their own weapons for the same reasons.
Weapons on a film set are a different thing altogether. If you make a mistake loading your gun it’s other people who will be in danger … not you.
And just suppose the actor who loads his own gun is a bit unhinged and has a grudge against another person on the set … loading your own weapon in those circumstances is full of risk.
My understanding of protocols are that guns are only loaded by the armourer in front of a witness.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I helped out on the Antiques Roadshow not so long ago. I was impressed by the diligence that was paid to directing all participants with weapons to the armourer without delay.
What I'm saying is that if someone handed me a gun that I was going to point at someone, I would still want to know what was in it. It's where the buck stops. Americans seem happy to trust someone else with something that can be life threatening, either to themselves or someone else.
It's not just Americans who 'trust someone else...' ie pass the buck. It's commonplace within the younger generation who seem to expect to be spoonfed everything and to blame everybody except themselves when something they do goes wrong.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.