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The Lady Chief Buyer |
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After Fudge was kicked upstairs there was a hiatus in the command structure of the Buying Department until the amazing appointment of a lady Chief Buyer. There are really only three things to be said about her:
Why Chester-Perry's broke the habits of a lifetime
to appoint an outsider and a female, in strip
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to a top job in management is a great mystery. Maybe the firm is finally
waking up the changes in society since 1960. Unfortunately we
never found out anything about her. She had no name, was never seen
and had no contact with Bristow, who became known as the "man left
out in the cold". He was still there of course, "working"
in the Buying Department but he never met his boss. In the good old
days when Fudge was in charge, Bristow was always being hauled over
the coals for his laziness, stupidity or inefficiency. Fudge always
had a great pile of papers ready to be dumped on Bristow's desk if he
thought Bristow had insufficient work. But what was going on with the
LCB? Who kept on top of Bristow? Where did he get his work from? He
used to do little enough before. Had it all gone to Jones? Or was there
been a fundamental re-organisation that cut the Buying Department out
of the system and left it in office limbo?
The great innovation did not last. Fudge returned (demoted?) to take charge after Barbiedoll went to America, got married, and never came back. Ever since then ( year 2000 in real terms he has been Chief Buyer.
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