John Clayden
I was working for  New Century, a large window cleaning firm in London with an office in Red Lion Square. While cleaning the office of the chief executive of 20th Century Fox high up in Soho Square I removed some newspapers he had placed on an internal window ledge before stepping out to do the exterior of the windows. This was because they were hazardous as they would not have given me a secure foothold climbing in and out of the windows. The Chief Executive said nothing to me but later it emerged he had phoned up and complained to the company and a supervisor was duly despatched to our meeting place in Lyons basement in Oxford Street near Tottenham Court Road.  It was agreed all round that the Chief Executive was an obvious idiot to be ignored and the supervisor who had previously worked our round regaled us with stories from his work experiences some of which would not be suitable for this publication. On one occasion he said early one morning he offered the women who worked in an underwear shop, to dispose of some empty nylon stocking boxes and leave them where they would be collected by the dustmen a few streets away. On turning a corner he was confronted by two policemen who jumped to the conclusion he was a thief. 
“Officer ” he said to the first copper “What size does your missus take?” He handed him the appropriate box and the policeman shoved it up his tunic and this was repeated with the other and they parted on good terms.
Center Point had not long been built and there was a bank on the ground floor which was on his round. It was a cold frosty day and it was not uncommon for the water to freeze on the windows. Another hazard was that in cold weather plate-glass can become brittle and shatter and  it is  therefore not advisable to place a pointed ladder, known in the trade as a point, up against a large shop window to reach higher up.
When the bank  manager complained he had neglected to clean the top of the huge plate glass window, he explained the danger but the manager insisted he clean the rest of the window.
Our  new friend went and got himself a bucket of boiling hot water and threw it at the window. A crack shot up the window and he went inside to inform the manager. The manager phoned the company and a representative came round. The window cleaner explained that he had warned the manager of the Point bank what the consequences of using point in these weather conditions could be. The manager was informed that because he had been warned it was not the responsibility of the company. The manager was seen no more.