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So .. here's the gig
My mum wanted me to take her one of the restaurants at the top of the gherkin which looks dead posh. She is retired. To eat at the top of the gherkin in this exclusive place you have to be a member. She thought 'well I really want to go so why not? I'll become a member'.
The questions they ask are things like 'What position do you hold in your corporation' and 'What is your annual budget' and 'How many people work for you'. Basically all about 'how big a cheese are you? we only allow really important people in here'
Needless to say my retired mum failed utterly in their little test for membership. Now my mum has always been a bit 'class war' - and she got the hump instantly upon failure and thought 'I'm as good as anyone else, how dare they pigeon hole me into not being good enough to eat with certain others .. i'm not standing for that I'm not 'lower class' than them!'.
So -- she called back -- speaking to someone else. And guess what -- she has declared herself the 'VP' of BMW Austria!! Apparently I am 'Head of European Marketing'!!! We have a combined budget of over 100m euros!! She is mental! but then the really funny thing happened ..
They did precisely, exactly ZERO checking up on her story.
So, staggeringly, we are now both official members, and because we are SUCH HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MEMBERS we can enjoy a £100 PER HEAD meal absolutely FREE this coming Saturday in the Gherkin (this doesn't happen to most other members), compliments of d'management!!
!!
So, now the ultimate dilemma -- would you go on Saturday, as a big one-finger class-war salute to their 'Only important people allowed' rules?
Or bottle it?
If I go -- It's going to be a life-experience and a good story to tell my mates for years .. but I presumably may get in DEEP trouble. A load of lol why not? Or too scary for you? (We don't mind being kicked out if it comes to it we'll find somewhere else .. but I don't want police called etc)
My mum wanted me to take her one of the restaurants at the top of the gherkin which looks dead posh. She is retired. To eat at the top of the gherkin in this exclusive place you have to be a member. She thought 'well I really want to go so why not? I'll become a member'.
The questions they ask are things like 'What position do you hold in your corporation' and 'What is your annual budget' and 'How many people work for you'. Basically all about 'how big a cheese are you? we only allow really important people in here'
Needless to say my retired mum failed utterly in their little test for membership. Now my mum has always been a bit 'class war' - and she got the hump instantly upon failure and thought 'I'm as good as anyone else, how dare they pigeon hole me into not being good enough to eat with certain others .. i'm not standing for that I'm not 'lower class' than them!'.
So -- she called back -- speaking to someone else. And guess what -- she has declared herself the 'VP' of BMW Austria!! Apparently I am 'Head of European Marketing'!!! We have a combined budget of over 100m euros!! She is mental! but then the really funny thing happened ..
They did precisely, exactly ZERO checking up on her story.
So, staggeringly, we are now both official members, and because we are SUCH HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MEMBERS we can enjoy a £100 PER HEAD meal absolutely FREE this coming Saturday in the Gherkin (this doesn't happen to most other members), compliments of d'management!!
!!
So, now the ultimate dilemma -- would you go on Saturday, as a big one-finger class-war salute to their 'Only important people allowed' rules?
Or bottle it?
If I go -- It's going to be a life-experience and a good story to tell my mates for years .. but I presumably may get in DEEP trouble. A load of lol why not? Or too scary for you? (We don't mind being kicked out if it comes to it we'll find somewhere else .. but I don't want police called etc)
