Andy Hall wrote:
On 2008-01-20 08:41:21 +0000, james said:

In article ,
mike wrote:

Do Ikea have spares at customer services?

Yeah. They're called "staff".

Sure?

A lot of retailers call them "associates"; rather like call centres call
their staff "advisors".

Years ago IIRC all John Lewis staff were always called 'partners' -
don't know if that's still the case. (Think they were all shareholders
in the business?)

David