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Thinking Allowed

Workplace Misbehaviour

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Society & Culture, Science

4.4997 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Workplace Misbehaviour: Laurie Taylor talks to Paul Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Employment Studies at the University of Stirling, about workers behaving badly, from pilferage and absenteeism to the deployment of satirical humour and dissent on social media. In what ways has the modern workplace facilitated new kinds of recalcitrance? Also, Rebecca Scott, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Cardiff, explores bullying and aggressive behaviour among chefs employed in fine dining restaurants. Does the isolation of the work itself, combined with the geography of elite kitchens, lead to outrageous conduct that would be condemned elsewhere?

Producer: Jayne Egerton

Transcript

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Hello I was once employed at a commissioner or linkman outside a well-known West End cinema.

0:54.0

On the face of it, this was a simple job once stood outside the cinema doors in a gold uniform and peaked cap

1:00.0

and tried to look authoritative.

1:02.0

But slowly, I learned from my fellow

1:03.9

Commissioner Dave that there was rather more to the job. There was

1:07.4

built-in misbehavior. So although the practice was frowned on by

1:11.5

management we would help cinema goers to park even

1:14.8

taking their keys and driving their cars to a parking space.

1:19.1

We would also illicitly buy tickets from the box office and sell them to punters who didn't want to join

1:24.7

the long queue. It's all part of the job I was told reassuringly by Dave.

1:30.3

Well memories of those deviant days came back to me as I was reading two texts, which in

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