Jack Rear

England, London

Digital Lifestyle Writer at The Telegraph

30-year-old journalist. Writing lifestyle for @Telegraph. Culture vulture, nerd. Views my own obviously. 🏳️‍🌈

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10 annoying things restaurant diners do

3 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Jack Rear

From using phones at the table to taking your four-legged friend for dinner, these eating out crimes should result in an immediate red card. How many are you guilty of? , register or subscribe to save recipes for later. You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.
I worked at WH Smith. This is why it all went wrong

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Jack Rear

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I worked at WH Smith. This is why it all went wrong

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Jack Rear

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
I worked at WH Smith. This is why it all went wrong

3 weeks ago | aol.co.uk | Jack Rear

The call came during a lunch break at college when I was 17. A softly spoken jittery man named Phil was the one to tell me: I’d got the job, could I start on Sunday? I was on cloud nine. So long to the messy, smelly pub kitchen I’d been toiling away in and hello to the glamorous world of retail work. The road to glory was paved with discounted Dairy Milks and threadbare blue carpets, and that road ran straight through WH Smith.
I worked at WH Smith. This is why it all went wrong

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jack Rear

Stained and sticky carpetsA number of years ago, a Twitter account was set up dedicated to cataloguing the ruinous state of WH Smith carpetry. Our store's was particularly bad: a stain was left in front of the display for Richard & Judy's book club picks after a man defecated on the floor there. WH Smith never had the spare cash for cleaners or the like. I was once informed by my manager, a world-weary chap called Andy, that each store in the chain could afford a loss of £13 per week.
The whole country is moving house to avoid stamp duty - and I’m one of them

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jack Rear

As soon as I see the email notification from my solicitor, I can feel my heart rate ramp up, the cold sweat pricking my skin. No doubt it’ll be yet another delay in the endless series of delays that have sabotaged my attempts over the past few months to step onto the property ladder. This week, it might push me over the edge.
The last-minute dash to move house

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jack Rear

"At this time of year, we'd usually be doing 10 to 15 moves per week," says James Bonsor, CEO of Anthony Ward Thomas Removals. "Over the past month, we've been doing 30-35 a week. Usually, we try to avoid provisional bookings because if they cancel at the last minute, it's quite annoying, but this month, each member of my sales team has a huge waiting list, so it's been no problem.
How the clocks going forward affects your health

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jack Rear

First devised as a means to save coal during the First World War, daylight saving time is something we Britons have learned to live with. By shifting our clocks an hour forward in spring we get to enjoy an extra hour of summer sunlight in the evenings, and switching them back in autumn helps avoid some of the morning gloom. However, an increasing body of evidence is beginning to show that, biologically speaking, daylight saving time could be doing us an immense amount of harm.
Hell is other diners – here are their worst offences

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Jack Rear

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Hell is other diners

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Jack Rear

From using phones at the table to taking photos of your food, these eating out crimes should result in an immediate red cardDoesn't it feel increasingly as though people want to treat the public realm as an extension of their private space?