trying to bring back National Service, ie, military conscription. You know the thing they tried to bring in during both World Wars and afterwards for a bit? Maybe it wasyearning for a time when colour television hadn’t been invented and you could blame the Germans for everything going wrong instead of your own mishandling of housing policies.
You may choose to serve in either the hospitality or retail branch depending on your strengths, weaknesses and ability to not vomit while cleaning up someone else’s vomit. You will If you enjoy being bossed around by managers who derive their energy from bullying teenagers on the correct placement of coat hangers, might I suggest serving in the retail wing. You will have to argue with an irate customer that you have indeed “gone out the back” and checked for their size but as it’s a small storeroom and not a warehouse, you simply don’t have it, despite what the website says.
Those of us who have worked the Christmas sales or a New Year’s Eve bar shift without seriously considering breaking a limb share the same motto as the Marine Corp – “the few, the proud”.