Ben McCrory

Manchester

Former bookseller

Waterstone's "heavy-handed"? I was sacked in June 2002 for supposedly stealing five pounds, and won hands down at my employment tribunal eleven months later. I was treated appallingly by Waterstone's throughout, and no attempt was made to establish the truth of the matter. God knows what they spent on legal representation etc, but all the people involved are still working there whereas I couldn't get my job back. Still, I kept a daily diary of my eleven years there, and maybe I will publish it as a blog. They like blogs.