Anyone watch You Can't Get The Staff?

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Oh some more trash for me to watch. It's line flicking through a copy of Lady magazine in the dentist.

I lasted three minutes.

I loved it. My Mum is now 94 and was in service in the 1930s/1940s - she said nothing's changed !!

That kitchen in Kennington, having a chef, butler and under butler working from it

Dh and I loved it

I lasted three minutes as well and deleted the recording

i was awful. Just really cheap, contrived - and very fake - TV.

Had that woman having the dinner party been a man previously? She looked very blokeish.

Lady Colin summat? No, she was a woman. Can anyone remember why she would call herself by a man's name?

Sorry, it seems she was registered as a boy (George) when she was born, but they later realised she was female.

She was married to a Lord or Sir Colin Campbell I think.

The lady who wanted a mother's help/groom/office staff seemed like she'd be a very demanding boss. To put it politely. I wonder whether she found the right person in the end?

No, Gilbert, all three of her employees had left in months. She came across as very hard work and the kind of boss who would be hovering and shadowing all the time.

Very unrealistic, too, in her expectations.

Lady El I'd like to work for.

Gilbert, she WAS demanding, wasn't she? I got the feeling nothing would be good enough for her. She changed that poor girl's job description, too - well, she changed both of the girls' job descriptions - no wonder they left. She seemed to have tremendous energy and just wanted to clone herself. Good for her with that product, though - she'd done a great job there.

The lady who lost 3 members of staff in 4 months. I bet she's a MNer. She just seemed like she would be. I spent the whole programme thinking that.

Yes, I did, too! In fact, if I hadn't seen Justine, I would have thought she INVENTED Mumsnet!

carlson, I saw the employees had all gone by the end of the show, I was just wondering whether she'd found anyone by now (not that I'm enquiring).

I would quite like to have been a "collaborator" for the arty chap.

The only thing is that the arty chap's own mum sacked him.

yup, that she did. I got the impression there was a heck of a lot of a backstory. Perhaps he'd benefit from joining the Stately Homes threads, ironically enough.

Wrt the woman who lost all the staff,I predicted that would happen within 3 seconds of viewing time. Far too vague with job specifications imo. I've worked for people like her before

I liked Lady El. But in Intern job looked very hard work for 'pocket money'.
The mothers help lady looked like a nightmare to work for.