A salutary tale for all bloggers!

In the north of England lies the town of Barrow-in-Furness, a traditional shipbuilding town with all that implies. Like all British towns its had a major face lift,a new shopping mall and a whole new range of trendy shops including a Thornton's chocolate store. Now Thornton's, for non Britons, is one of the creme de la creme of chocolate shops with its own brands supplied in de luxe gift boxes for the choosy.



Into this emporium came one Mr. Steve Beall, who it would appear moved reluctantly from his home in Whitley Bay, to manage the new store. It would appear that, in addition to his distaste for Barrow, the new enterprise got off to a bad start when kids vandalised the shop before it even opened and Mr Beall was compelled to stay in a Travel Lodge while his accommodation was sorted out.

In desperation, as we all do, he turned to his trusty computer. There he managed to compound his problems. Using a communal thought sharing website, he wrote 'What have I done in my career to deserve this? This place is a rough, dull, boring s**thole!'



Unfortunately for Mr. Beall, the local newspapers (well it's Christmas and there's no news) got wind of his remarks and decided,as the local press frequently does, on a bit of home town righteous indignation. As a result half the town's population read Mr.Beall's vented frustrations and demanded recompense.

Well Mr.Beall is no longer living at Travel Lodge so thats one good thing but sadly thats because he got fired from his job. Thornton's have spent the pre-Christmas period handing out free chocs to the locals in the hope of recovering lost prestige.

The moral of this story: If you want to vent your spleen on a blog -and that IS what they're for - make sure you are discreet about it. Post any evil thoughts about people who could harm you - particularly if you work in a service industry - only where the most trusted people will see them - not on a public grump sharing site!!