"Martin" wrote in message
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:39:06 -0000, "Mike Lyle"
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"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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"JennyC" wrote in message
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Or the idiocy of coming out on strike because there is not enough
sugar in
the tea (Ford Dagenham)

I didn't know that!

But did it actually happen? In any civilian employment I know about,
people pay for their own at the canteen or from the tea swindle: not
something it would make any sense to take up with the management. Few
adult civilians would be subjected to a situation where they didn't have
a choice about how much sugar went in their tea. I fancy I scent an
urban myth of perhaps even less than "Winterval" credibility.

I got near to causing a strike by changing a 13 amp fuse in a plug
attached to a
piece of equipment that I was using that belonged to my employer and not
to the
company that was borrowing it.
Martin

I heard a story (might be another myth Mike) about a chap drilling a hole in
a wooden wall and coming out the other side into a metal
wall............down tools by the metal workers union........
Jenny