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Exclusive: Slaughters ladies to choose between clean hands and dry hair
06 July 2012
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The female staff of Slaughter and May were presented with a stark choice this week. Opt for clean hands or dry hair.

A recent redecoration of the ladies' changing rooms saw the power sockets removed in favour of new wash basins. To anyone wondering why the changing rooms at Bunhill Row could not accommodate both basins and sockets, the answer is the dreaded elf and safety and, more specifically, the firm's Electricity at Work Procedures. This leaves the women of Slaughters with a choice: return to their offices with dirty hands and neatly coiffured hair, or with clean hands and dripping wet (or dirty) hair:




If only they worked at Allen & Overy, where unbrushed hair has become the norm.

Graham White, the firm's Executive Partner, said "as all our lawyers already come to equity with clean hands, they're welcome to focus on their hair".
 

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anonymous user
06/07/2012 08:08
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Mange: "skin disease caused by parasitic mite" .....mmmm
anonymous user
06/07/2012 08:56
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"Mangement"

A typo from S&M!
anonymous user
06/07/2012 08:59
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Why is the grammar so bad? Perhaps less time straightening and more time proofreading.
anonymous user
06/07/2012 10:17
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"... the Firms' electricity at work procedures."

Are Slaughter and May two separate firms now?

Pedantically etc.,
anonymous user
06/07/2012 17:04
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Good lord, I wish I had their problems.
anonymous user
06/07/2012 17:16
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Nice of them to give people a choice! Very democratic.
Eccentric_Scottish_Ice_Monkey
07/07/2012 16:39
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Just use anti-bacterial hand gel that dries up as you rub it into your skin. Then they could have their cake and eat it (without eating nasty toilet germs too!)
anonymous user
11/07/2012 12:35
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Fantastic quote from Graham White there