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... and we need people who know how the keep the lights on.
Who for? Everyone is leaving.
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
In my days in the licensed trade, I once had the misfortune of working the bar (the contract for providing which had gone to the pub where I then worked) for the invitation-only first night of the Fine Arts Graduation Exhibition at the local polytechnic.
After all the punters had gone, and the bar stuff was packed up in the Transit, there were just my boss, the poly security chap, and myself left in there, and we had a wander around the gallery.
Pausing in front of one particular "work", my boss (who was a graduate, an accomplished musician, and generally no slouch when it came to the arts) gestured towards it and said, "Now that, to me, is just a waste of paint and canvas."
The security chap nodded, and added "And he got a First for that!"
In my days in the licensed trade, I once had the misfortune of working the bar
You see, kids? This is how we used to pay the bills while were waiting for the 3rd generation computer languages to be written (probably by Zeity). Selling our bits in sleazy clubs and bars to pay for beer. Times was tough, back then.
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