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That's a rum one, he's booked that, and we only had this amount of bread on'. This process oflatching on outmodes the earlier strict rules: latching on is a crucial turning point in the process of learning the fiddle. As one salesman put it: Well, shortages, that was the thing to start with ... he always seemed to be on about it at first, even if you wanted something to eat, off the van, he used to say 'You'll have to put that in', or something like that ... I did to start with, but not after I caught him not doing it.
May be] institutionalised ... [but] for a while it is possible to say that the [trainer's] role makes allowances for maladroitness in beginners. Novices in the sales department are often verbally prepared for this status. One man remembered: Any mistakes I made, well, he said to me 'Any mistakes you make ... we'll leave it for a month or so until it settles down' ... more or less saying that if you can't get it right within a month, that's your own fault. 28 Part-time Crime The actual staging of the fiddler transformation follows a rhetorical form typical of all moral careers.
But it isn't pennies now, it's pounds. If I can't make a couple of quid out of it, I don't bother . . I wouldn't cross the road for a couple of bob now. The roundsman thus emerges with a vocabulary of fiddle techniques and possibilities far superior to that needed to satisfy organisational ends. Sooner or later he will make a decision to use the organisationally taught practices for his own benefit. Commitment to the end of fiddling subtly transforms itself into attachment to the means of fiddling.