Former BHS employee reveals shop floor bust up when Sir Philip Green asked her ‘Do you know who I am?’
Grandmother-of-seven was left facing the sack after she ranted at the podgy billionaire for being rude to her
A FEISTY former BHS worker stood up to Sir Philip Green after the billionaire told her: "I own you”.
Chris Page, 68, who worked at the store for nine years, spoke out about the rude billionaire as her old shop prepared to close following the firm's collapse.
She stood up to Sir Green, when he visited the branch in Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre, in Kent, and told her: "I own you".
Grandmother-of-seven Chris, from Broadstairs, Kent, was left facing the sack after she ranted at the podgy billionaire for being rude to her.
She said: "I was working in the Christmas shop.
"I was getting to work at 7am and putting things out for people to try, as we opened at 7.30am for shoppers to browse.
"A group came in and a man started to open some of the boxes.
"I went up to him and said 'over there are the ones to try'.
"He looked at me and said, 'Do you know who I am? I own BHS, pay your wages, and own you'."
"I said, 'No you don't, slavery was over a long time ago'.
"He called the manager over and I just walked away."
The quick comeback came at a price for the gran, who didn't realise he was the owner who had recently bought over the business.
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She said: "No one is going to talk to me like that.
"There was a bit of an argy-bargy, should I stay or should I go.
"The manager said if I apologised I could keep my job, but I didn't and was put on a month's trial - I didn't hear anything else after that."
Sir Philip bought BHS for £200 million in March 2000, but last year the company was sold to city investors, Retail Acquisitions, for £1 by the Arcadia Group.
The now-pensioner believes Sir Philip should not be allowed to keep his knighthood.
"It's unfair that if he pays out money for the pensions, he's allowed to keep his title," she said.
"They should strip him of it and shove it where the sun doesn't shine.
"He just didn't care about the people in BHS. It just makes me angry."
Chris left the store in 2002, but luckily, she took her pension as a lump sum.
Sir Philip came under harsh criticism by MPs, after a report by the Work and Pension's committee found the business mogul had extracted large sums of money from BHS - leaving the business on "life support".