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Confession time.

When I was a kid, mum and dad had a shop. To get from bedrooms to family areas meant going through the "stock room".

Robertson's trademark figure was, for many years, a loose cutout tucked in the top of the label on the rear of the jar.

Very easy to remove... I had DOZENS of them.

Worse, do you remember the "keys" on tins of corned beef? Funnily, very few customers ever complained their tin didn't have one.

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LT wrote:
The Golly branding was Robertson's. Their largest factory, the largest jam making factory in Europe at one time, was about 10 miles from me. Thumbs Up


Ah, typo time for me! Thanks for the correction. Bow down
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This guy was basically sacked for belligerence in reality.....


https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/peopl...ls-4709487
  
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Slow news day in Yorkshire it seems. The story is 2 years old judging by the dates in the article. Laughing

The chap needed to be more clever in his approach, frankly, as his choice was always going to get goats up. Shame, for him, that he wasn't devoutly religious - probably could have claimed a religious angle to get around it.
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Yes agreed he was sacked for tying to beat the system rather than work it.

The sending of an email explaining that non-biological based pronouns offended him because of his religious beliefs would of at least caused somebody a bit of a headache.
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Or claim to identify as a dog with pronouns "good boy!"/"clever boy!". Rolling with laughter

Seriously, there are examples of people self-identifying as animals. Furries, I believe they're called. Or xenogender. I kid you not.
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RRSTDV8 wrote:
Slow news day in Yorkshire it seems. The story is 2 years old judging by the dates in the article. Laughing


I think various appeals are underway even though actual news two years old
  
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at the large, well known, automotive company I used to work at there was a 'push' to get people to put pronouns on email footers and all the hip young people followed the order accordingly.

I wasn't going to do it and was just happy to leave it 'as was' with my name and professional job title, I didn't feel the need for anything else.

This was deemed 'unacceptable' and repeat follow up emails were received pushing the narrative, team meetings had it as an agenda item and my director took me to one side to ask me to 'just comply' for an easy life.

I wasn't argumentative, I just said I wasn't doing it and given it wasn't (and couldn't be) an 'instruction' that was the end of it as far as I was concerned. It was still a regular topic and in the end I said if I had to have 'something' on my email footer I was going to use the identifier of "Bob the Zebra" if they 'insisted'....

It wasn't discussed any more after that......

I'm still called 'Bob' by many ex-colleagues Laughing
  
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