SYD BETHUNE

My friend, Syd Bethune did two stints at a branch of the same bank. I first met him at the library. We first met there in the early eighties. He was a lowly paid clerk at a government institution. He always complained about the low pay he was getting. He revealed to us that he used to work at a bank. He told us that he was forced to leave the bank after a big quarrel with a supervisor. He used to do several things that made us suspicious as to the real reasons why he was forced to leave the bank. For example when this large department store had their blow out sale he would attend and make off with several products free of cost. Syd never stopped trying to get back a bank work. Finally  his former bank called him. They sent him to the same branch from which he had been fired four years ago. He told us that evening that only about five former staff members were still there. However on Friday of the same week I saw him dressed in casual clothes. He told me that on Thursday he had been summoned to headquarters and summarily dismissed. He still insisted that it was the quarrel with his supervisor which lay at the root of his second dismissal. We knew otherwise. One wonders if he had given a different address and been sent to a different branch what would have happened.