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familiarity
– the feeling of knowing something so well
that you feel comfortable
and relaxed.
Neil
Harriet also interviewed hairdressers working in beauty salons about the marks
and stains found in their workplace. Here she tells BBC Radio 4’s,
Thinking
Allowed, about a strangely shaped mark on the floor of one hair salon:
Harriet Shortt
A sort of half-moon scuff mark that goes right round the back of the chair – so
literally, she’s
worn out
the floor. It’s exactly where a hairdresser would tread for
many, many hours of the day. And she took the photograph, and she showed it to
me, and she said, ‘This is me. You want to know about identity. It represents
hard
graft
’.
Sam
Harriet interviewed a hairdresser whose salon floor had been
worn out
– damaged
by continual use, after being walked on again and again as the woman cut people’s
hair. For her, the worn-out floor symbolised
hard graft
, or hard work.
Neil
Whatever your job, we all spend most of each day at work, so it’s important to have
a workplace that’s safe, comfortable and familiar… where people don’t steal your
pen!
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