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Retail Randoms
by 55 North
Ikea. I see ya.
Famed for its flat-pack furniture and meatballs of questionable provenance, Ikea has now found itself in a spot of bother after surveillance cameras were discovered in a ceiling void above staff toilets and locker rooms at one of its distribution centres.
Speaking to the BBC, ironically-named former employee Shannon Bodily expressed dismay that her bodily functions may have been caught on camera.“I feel vulnerable, I feel violated,” she quite rightly said.
After their discovery, the cameras were removed quicker than you can say “one of these screws appears to be missing”.
However, the Swedish company’s explanation as to why they were there in the first place makes about as much sense as one of its word-free assembly leaflets.
It commented: “For the purpose of maintaining a safe workplace for all co-workers, surveillance cameras were installed in the void above the ceilings in the bathrooms and locker areas.”
Just how filming someone peeing adds to workplace safety remains a mystery. As does what goes in the meatballs.
We’re all in it together
One good thing about the fuel shortage is that we’re all in it together. Well, almost.
Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is just like the rest of us – the motorists at any rate – in that he’s got a car that needs filling up. He’s actually got closer to 20 cars, worth around £17m in total, but that’s another story.
Unlike the rest of us, the Portuguese soccer genius has staff to take care of life’s menial matters, and so it was that an unfortunate lackey spent the best part of seven hours queuing outside a Shell forecourt in Cheshire waiting to spend a maximum of £30 on fuel.
It’s worth pointing out the petrol station imposed the limit, not the £385,000-a-week ball kicker.
Given that Ronaldo’s runabout of choice is a £220,000 Bentley Flying Spur, 30 quid’s worth of petrol will be lucky to put 100 miles on the clock, meaning his poor employee is going to spending the best part of the foreseeable future hanging about garages.
Especially since his quest proved fruitless, and he drove off with just a coffee from the forecourt’s Spar store to show for his trouble.
