a fool and his money

A fool and his money are soon parted so goes the old saying.

 And there’s no fool quite like the one who showboats and flaunts his wealth in full view of everyone who has worked their guts out for him to achieve his millionaire status.

As Philip Green welcomes a new super yacht into his family and lives it up at parties with the cream of the supermodel and celebrity crop, BHS staff all across the country are setting up everything must go sales and winding up the closing down of their shops.

While he roasts himself on holiday beneath the bright Grecian sun, they’ll be toiling away as customers pick the store carcasses for that last bargain crumb.

He squirms when he’s questioned offering pitiful excuses while they have to carry on regardless being polite in the face of his rudeness.

They don’t know whether when they reach his age, they’ll have anything to live on, yet they’ll still give their all to their job as its sell by date fast approaches.

Having had the misfortune in my youth to have worked for one of the stores he’s bought then cast aside for something better I know how gutting it must be for those involved and who deserve to have been treated much better .

From the word go there seemed to be a lack of any kind of care for those actually involved in the day to day job of selling their products and customer service, as long as the money was rolling in for them to spend on their frivolities it didn’t matter that their big plans and clever tricks were actually duds in disguise and sending the companies in question towards financial ruin.

Area managers were drafted in that had impressive university degrees but no idea what it was actually like to work on a shop floor then couldn’t understand why their latest big idea for how to sell to the public didn’t have the crowds surging through the front door.

And so when it all went pear shaped they all jumped ship and left the poor abandoned crews to guide their vessels on one last voyage that would end up with them being shipwrecked on the shore.

A knight of the realm should above all else show great bravery and courtesy decrees a search of the chivalric code on Wikipedia whilst trying to find out what it takes to be bestowed with the title of Sir, so maybe  Philip Green should read up a bit on his job title and do his honourable duty instead of playing the jester with those who could set him up for an almighty fall.