A shop assistant in Guernsey has been awarded 40 sausage rolls for 40 years of service.

Fifty-six-year-old Kevin Parsons started working at the island’s Alliance supermarket in 1984.

Bosses marked the anniversary by giving him a certificate, a tropical-themed mural for his home and a sausage roll for each of his next 40 shifts.

Mr Parsons, who was described as an “Alliance celebrity” by bosses, said “words can’t express my appreciation” for his gifts.

    • Bizzle@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That’s what I thought 🤔 don’t get me wrong I’m sure this dudes been exploited for 40 years and that’s shitty as fuck but a mural sounds like a rad gift

      • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukOPM
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        3 months ago

        It’s not a big supermarket chain (they have two stores in Jersey and Guernsey), so likely treat their workers better. As the bosses presumably know all their workers it does mean this is a bit more personal than just some HR drone punching a button because their details flashed up on a screen.

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                2 months ago

                It is a riff on “Saturn devouring his son” I think.

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                  It is absolutely that, I want to congratulate the artist. also great use of it in this thread.

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            3 months ago

            I assume when they say tropical they mean a sandy beach with waves lapping on the sand, palm trees coming down to the beaches edge and reclining on the sand is a massive sausage roll.

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        I feel like the cost of a tropical themed mural could be better spent on like, a tropical vacation. But I don’t know, I’m not a mural guy.