“I’m no good with computers.”
“It’s really easy…” Libby talked yet another customer through the routine as she’d been trained to do.
December 2016: Slypperies Bank closed 2,000 branches – didn’t need them now so many people used internet banking. Libby was made redundant – but she got a job at Penny-Save Supermarket.
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“Where’s the ‘express’ checkout, love?”
“There isn’t one, but I’ll help you with self-scan,” said the ever-helpful Libby.
By December 2017 Penny-Save installed another twelve self-scans in every store. Last in, first out, Libby was unemployed again. Merry Christmas.