I always thought the Shabbos goy was a cunning plan to ensure that pious Jews got to know the more helpful of their non-Jewish neighbours.
I was talking to an old client last year when it turned out we both came from roughly the same part of North London. He’s non-Jewish but his after-school job was working for a kosher butcher. This included doing the Shabbos goy job on Saturdays. He liked his employer and enjoyed the job and his attitude is “so long as people treat other people decently it doesn’t matter if their religion seems a bit odd.”
