The good people at Rant casino reached out to Under The Counter recently. Not to see if he fancied squandering his wages with them instead of William Hill, but to inform him that roughly 85% of affairs begin in the workplace, with one-in-five employees confessing to being unfaithful with a colleague.
Two thoughts quickly entered the Auld Boy’s enfeebled mind. Firstly, that ‘Rant’ is a terrible name for a business. And, as a quick glance at his co-workers confirmed, he could think of nothing worse than a bite of some forbidden fruit. Or any fruit, come to think of it; the closest UTC gets to consuming his five a day is demolishing two packets of Starburst.
Rant had apparently surveyed 3,800 individuals across the UK to reveal which industries are more prone to infidelity, and readers won’t be surprised to discover that retail isn’t one of them.
The sales sector topped the survey, with 14.5% of those polled admitting to playing away. However, only 1.4% of shopworkers confessed to cheating. This is probably because they’re far too busy keeping their stores ship-shape from sunup to sundown to have the time and energy to indulge in any stockroom shenanigans.
What surprised Under The Counter though, was that law enforcement officers were even more faithful, with only 0.2% admitting infidelity. He’s always assumed the polis are getting up to all sorts with their radios switched off when they should instead be responding to reports of retail crime.
