A Controversial Subject

[Mr Darn]

Funny I been shoppin at Blyth Asda for a long time and I still see the same old tired faces.

This smacks of a grudge.Were you sacked by any chance Mr Darn?

Were you caught dipping your fish finger in the cod pieces?

Were you practicing your over the counter skills?

Or did you just help yourself to some B.O.G.O.F's

Unfortunatly, none of the above....

i'm one of the stupid ones still employed!

you know, the ones that moan on its a crap place to work now, and how if a job came up waiting tables at macdonnalds we'd be off in a flash.... but never actually do!

Its sad really...

[Malcolm Robinson]

Unfortunatly, none of the above....

i'm one of the stupid ones still employed!

you know, the ones that moan on its a crap place to work now, and how if a job came up waiting tables at macdonnalds we'd be off in a flash.... but never actually do!

Its sad really...

Commiserations Mr O and to anyone else who thinks waiting tables in the hallowed golden arches is a step up in the food chain!

[Monsta®]

Afraid not young sir! (i double checked to make sure!)

dont know where you get your info from but everywhere i go its asquith and dairies!

such as wikipedia.com, answers.com, etc etc

so afraid so!

[Hamburger Pimp]

While wikipedia wrongly says the name was introduced in 1975, Asda's own store has it at 1965 and confirms Monsta is correct!

[Mr Darn]

dont know where you get your info from but everywhere i go its asquith and dairies!

such as wikipedia.com, answers.com, etc etc

so afraid so!

While wikipedia wrongly says the name was introduced in 1975, ASDA's own store has it at 1965 and confirms Monsta is correct!

Strange, as from the 'history' link on ASDA's own website, it clearly states the store was known as 'Associated dairies' well before the Asquith brothers became involved in the '60's(formed in 1949), although they do go on to state the "official" 'birth' of the name was created by Asquith, using the first two letters of his name, but word around store is that it was already unofficially known as ASDA by then among customers and colleagues alike, taken from the Associated Dairies name.

Officially, i bow down, you are right, but the name was around, and is considered to be derived from Associated Dairies before Asquith adopted the name officially, and the version i first stated is still told in store induction today!

A point i will of course, be making tomorrow as contradictory on their own website!!

Of course, my main point being, that my first statement of the company being known as Associated Dairies first, then ASDA later, was entirely correct, just where the name came from was at fault

[Cympil]

Unfortunatly, none of the above....

i'm one of the stupid ones still employed!

you know, the ones that moan on its a crap place to work now, and how if a job came up waiting tables at macdonnalds we'd be off in a flash.... but never actually do!

Its sad really...

So i take it you haven`t mangaged to get a managers job yet?

[Mr Darn]

So i take it you haven`t mangaged to get a managers job yet?

LOL, no, only been there 2 years, apparently you need three to be considered...

i WONT be there by the time my 3rd year would have ended. (as quoted by EVERYONE who has been there over 10 years! )

[Hamburger Pimp]

Commiserations Mr O and to anyone else who thinks waiting tables in the hallowed golden arches is a step up in the food chain!

I have a pleasing mental image of Malcolm sitting at an uncomfortable MacDonald's table waiting in vain for a waiter with a large, tasselled menu to pitch up at his table.

[Malcolm Robinson]

I have a pleasing mental image of Malcolm sitting at an uncomfortable MacDonald's table waiting in vain for a waiter with a large, tasselled menu to pitch up at his table.

HP,

That will be the only time you would find me in one of those places, in your dreams!

[Monsta®]

LOL, no, only been there 2 years, apparently you need three to be considered...

i WONT be there by the time my 3rd year would have ended. (as quoted by EVERYONE who has been there over 10 years! )

take it you've had the day off as the trolleys weren't been collected!

[Mr Darn]

take it you've had the day off as the trolleys weren't been collected!

i was there, but i may have been on my lunch when you visited!

[Denzel]

I have a pleasing mental image of Malcolm sitting at an uncomfortable MacDonald's table waiting in vain for a waiter with a large, tasselled menu to pitch up at his table.

'Young man, my beef is overcooked'.

[Malcolm Robinson]

'Young man, my beef is overcooked'.

Beef, is that what it is............I thought it was soya styrafoam!

[Denzel]

Beef, is that what it is............I thought it was soya styrafoam!

Whatever it is, it tastes kack.