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When I got employed there they told me I was the most knowledgeable cycle geek by miles.
We also had to do practical tests and presentations on how we would sell stuff and help customers. Again I excelled by miles compared to the others, one of whom did not even cycle!
They refused to give me the mechanic training, instead giving it to younger guy who expressed no interest in a future outside of the bike shop. (value for them, even if he barely knew how to setup a flat pack bike)
After the ridiculously hard graft of setting up the shop. Truck fulls of products and bikes, endless shelf stacking and rearranging from early morning to late night.
Guess what? They decide to fire me!
In favour of some white guy who walked in off the street with a CV. Someone who had not done the residential training trip I had just done, nor had the wide cycling knowledge or even contacts with Birmingham cyclists like I do.
It made absolutely NO sense.
The only possible reasoning is that they preferred to clear out the only brown member of staff. You heard it hear folks.