I had to laugh the other day at a scene from the 2015 comedy, ‘Cradle To The Grave’, starring Peter Kay.
The comedy is based on the autobiography ‘Going To Sea In Sieve’ and follows the early life of television and radio presenter, Danny Baker.
Peter Kay played Danny’s father, Fred ‘Spud’ Baker, who spent most of his adult life working on the Bermondsey docs… and always involved in a ‘scam’ or two.
The scene that made me chuckle was that the docs in Bermondsey had taken a large delivery of shoes… but they were only one half of a pair.
Apparently, the company importing the shoes were so fed up of losing inventory at the docs; they sent shipments to both London and Liverpool.
One city received the left hand shoes whilst the other received the right hand shoes.
Unfortunately for the import company both cities had contacts in each port.
One telephone call later and dockers from both cities arranged to meet inland to swap boxes of stolen shoes so that they could make a pair that they could sell in the local pubs.
Theft by workers was such a common thing on the docs that it had its own nickname, ‘dockers’ fiddle’.
There were all kinds of tricks the dockers played on security so that they could get goods out of the yards.
One method used for bottled or canned items had workers purposely attach chains insecurely resulting in a crate of cargo ‘accidentally’ dropping into the water.
The dockers would return later with dive suits and rescue the lost cargo from the port floor.
Theft of goods might have been a way for workers to survive in a forever changing and increasingly expensive world.
Wages may have been low and many workers might have been struggling… or it might just be that workers were greedy and selfish and wanted more for themselves.
There is nothing wrong with wanting more from life, but stealing from your employers and those companies trying to legitimately import goods is not right.
This is one of the reasons Margaret Thatcher decided to take on the unions.
If you read my book How To Stop Working And Make A Million Pounds Instead, you will see that workers in the steel mills here in and around Sheffield and Rotherham had their own way of ‘fiddling’ money from their employers.
The night shift would come in, do an hour or two’s work and then enjoy a fish super before settled down for the night in the canteen.
They would then get up early and do an hour’s work before the day shift and the managers arrived.
They were sleeping on the job, stealing hours of pay from their employers but every time the company tried to do something about it, the unions would step in and ‘kick off!’
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During the late 70s and early 80s the unions were quick to defend anything. They did good in certain areas of employment, but not so good in others.
The debate regarding the unions of that period can go on for hours and I am not wanting to talk much about that in this article, but what I do want to talk about is how different today is from those days.
You see, back in the late 70s and early 80s, wages were paid in cash in envelops and real money was used by virtually everyone almost everywhere.
Plastic cards and cheques might have been available, but for the most part, cash really was king.
Everyone wanted to be paid in cash, and to pay with cash.
Cash money was the currency of the day (funny that) and to be paid in cash, people needed to do something or sell something locally.
For many, fiddling their hours or stealing goods to sell was the only way they could make more money without working a second job… which was not an option for many.
Theft was often the easiest option as it happened during works time and the sale happened later down the pub.
It didn’t require a lot of extra time or effort.
Today, there is no need to steal and there is no need to do or sell anything locally for extra money.
In fact, a time-strapped mother can usually earn more working online for an hour from the comfort and warmth of her home than a heroin addict can shoplifting goods all day to feed a habit.
Well, it’s a lot less risky and the money made isn’t just wasted on crap.
I’ve discussed many times the different ways you can make money online and have also named individuals who are doing fantastically well.
The internet is the ‘port’ of the new world.
It is the ‘gateway’ to opportunity.
It is the new ‘land of milk and honey’.
You can legally access many products, opportunities, customers, and territories through it.
The internet is a tool for generating money.
Gary Lister has been using the internet to source products cheaply which he then sells for a large profit.
He buys items that he knows he can sell for double the purchase price.
He started small and has now grown to the point he can generate £1,263 per week flipping specific items he finds being sold cheap.
And unlike Fred ‘Spud’ Baker, Gary hasn’t spent any time in prison doing what he does because there is nothing illegal or dodgy.
It is both legal and simple.
Discover more here:
Gary Lister’s Secret Ladder
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PS… There are several reasons as to why people sell off specific items cheaply, Gary has found one item that people are often in a rush to sell off and so they sell it at half the value to get rid of it quickly.
Gary snaps them up quickly, and then sells them at their full value making hundreds of pounds, sometimes thousands of pounds, in profits for a few minutes work.
Here’s that link again: