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10.7.02

Last night’s terrifying TV


It’s 9pm, and I settle down to watch an eagerly anticipated TV moment. The story of a vindictive man taking advantage of his helpless victims, a generation apart from himself. But this is not ‘Shipman’ on ITV1. This is The Secret Life Of The Office on BBC2. And after working in a call centre for nine years in various roles, I can tell you that nothing in that programme was a surprise. The pressure, the twatty people who have swallowed a dictionary of marketing jargon, the boss interfering and undermining other people’s job roles and authority. I shuddered at the familiarity of it all. Thank God I left in time…(jabber, jabber)


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