There were so many events featuring Dodger that I nearly forgot to mention Rose. Rose was another of the market waifs and even younger than Dodger. Barmy often played with her, but didn't appoint her to the staff. Usually.One Christmas, on a very busy day for casuals, there were only two traders remaining to be allocated. Unfortunately there was only one pitch left. As a mature market manager, the obvious thing to do would be to decide who should take the pitch based on logic, common sense, an evaluation of their goods and their contribution to the market over the past year.
Nobody was surprised, therefore, when Barmy turned to little Rose, squatted next to her, and asked her to choose which trader should get the pitch - and who should lose a day's earnings.
Naturally, her choice prevailed.
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Another 'truth stranger than fiction' moment witnessed by many. The problem being- there is no official complaints procedure. Barney's accountable to no-one- unless you include his friend Eric Reynolds- who is his sole and staunchest ally. Anyone who has complained thus far has been booted off the market. So, until there is a proper, decent, transparent management who are accountable to someone apart from their closest friends who simply circulate them around different markets when problems occur- without addressing the problem itself- namely Barney- these problems will just continue to escalate. Hell, if I thought I could get away with it, I'd also get kids to run the market, do my dirty work for me, give discounts to my mates, have pretty girls not pay for months or at a heavily discounted rate, travel miles and miles to 'follow' (unannounced) another pretty girl I fancied, make up different rules for different people about my own rules, have ex-girlfriends and other young hopefuls as Grade 1s when they are, in fact, in saturated markets like jewellery and bags...
If I ruled the world...
This is getting really serious now.
If a witness to this would come forward it would spell the end of Barny. Behaviour of this kind is gross misconduct.
How true to both of the above. And yes, it occurs to me that no-one until now has questioned the relationship between Barny and Eric Reynolds. The fact that even after all of this, Eric chooses to still employ this person is now getting really weird. What is this super glue bond all about?
I now feel so passionate that this bullying of traders needs to stop, that I will never cease to comment on this blog, and I will never to cease to highlight the appalling and intimidating behaviour against hard working individuals just trying to make a living. I will never to cease to share the stories about children being used in this way. I will never cease to state the discrepancies of the grading system, or as I now rename it, the "degrading" system. I will never cease to highlight the truth.
Until that is.... the bullying stops.
I would be happy to be a witness to the stuff I have seen and heard if there was a system in place to protect me. As it stands, any of us could just get chucked off the market for speaking out and lose our incomes. However, if we were guaranteed protection before, during and after any investigation, then I think people would step forward. Something for Greenwich Hospital to think about maybe?
There is a way to protect yourself and let the truth be told. Go to the very top with what you have witnessed, and I don't mean GSM.
I mean the law, there are laws to protect children, go to the NSPCC, the police. Go anonymously and explain your position and what you have seen, they have to act.
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