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    How do you deal with customers who lie?

    Used to have this happen a fair bit in my old pub regarding food service. A lot of people would be after a free meal from the word go, deliberately finding things to complain about sometimes to the point of barefaced lying. As others have said, getting embroiled in an argument just isn't...
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    Employment Figures I'm confused

    As a great man said, there are lies, damn lies and statistics. Politics is nothing but spin from all parties; most governments will think nothing of shunting people from one type of benefit to another for short-term gain, or pushing folks into jobs that won't be sustainable in the long-term for...
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    Employment Figures I'm confused

    Unless I'm mistaken, the government's "unemployment figures" only relate to the number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance. So you can have a lot of people working part time hours or casual labour not factored into the equation. (But I'm just a thick yam yam, so it's possible there are...
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    HMV going into administration...

    Oh, I don't doubt for a minute that digital music is the future, and that CD collections will just be for all us embarrassing old granddads :D You'll probably still get the niche market for selling them in years to come, as happened with vinyl, and there'll be a few of the more discerning...
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    HMV going into administration...

    I'm still big on CDs too; if nothing else, they're the last remaining bastion of album artwork. Yes, "album covers" still exist digitally for promotional purposes, but the general visual theme of a great album - including rear inlay, images within the CD booklet or on the disc, etc - is...
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    Amusing Business Stories

    Many years ago, while working as assistant manager of a fairly popular pub, we had a little secluded back room that we used to let people book for small functions (i.e. community meetings, family get-togethers, etc) in return for a nominal fee. One group - a book club - arranged with us to use...
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    Public House Licence Advice

    No; you'll have a Designated Premises Supervisor who is the manager of the pub, and is required to take ultimate responsibility for it, but you may employ Personal License Holders (i.e. ordinary staff supervisors) who can take legal responsibility for the premises when the DPS is elsewhere...
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    Approaching Businesses?

    With all due respect though, I can see the point he's raising. When sporting events are described as "big" - especially from a business/sponsorship point of view - it's the size of audience or viewing figures that are being talked about. The FIFA World Cup final only has 22 competitors from 2...
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    Brainwashed Britain.!

    How silly of me. Managers of retail outlets are, of course, world-renowned for taking on university graduates for minimum wage (rather than thinking "I'm not hiring her; in six months she'll be after my job.") And what they absolutely wouldn't do, under any circumstances, is take that person...
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    Brainwashed Britain.!

    But why do that to someone who's already got an ongoing unpaid job, lasting far longer than two weeks, that's giving them valuable experience? It makes no sense. For people who've got a can't-work-won't-work attitude then fair enough, but not for an already pro-active jobseeker.
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    Brainwashed Britain.!

    Or, to put it a little more factually: a university graduate who was already doing unpaid voluntary work relevant to her degree and intended career, who was forced to quit that job to instead stack shelves. I spoke to an A4E advisor last year who admitted himself that it was an appalling...
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    Choosing a telephone number for your business

    ...which you could just as easily do with an 0800 number; far more likely that you'll attract first-time custom with a freephone line.
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    When the big guys start acting small

    Interesting article on BBC News about Tesco's 49% stake in a minor coffee chain which markets its branches as quirky, independent outlets. Advocates of this "big guys pretending to be little guys" approach argue that it's creating jobs, and giving small businesses a chance to grow at a time when...
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    37.5 billion on rail or roads.?

    I see where you're coming from now. Yes, a station serving the university and Galgate would be ideal; I think there also used to be one adjacent to the Yorkshire House pub that's long since been demolished and built over along with the line it served? Some of the old local lines in urban...
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    Hello All!, I`m back again!

    Really like this idea; maybe if you expanded your stock portfolio to include interesting or high quality postcards of the town/local area, you might get students wanting to drop a line to mum & dad the old-fashioned way, plus potential tourist trade (if there's any in your neck of the woods)?
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