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24 Aug 20, 07:16 AM |
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Very Serious Dibber
Join Date: Jul 08
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Started off babysitting then moved on to a greengrocer/florist. At 16, got a Saturday job in Boots working on the cards wearing my lovely pink and navy uniform! After I had my children, I went back to work as a more mature Saturday girl in Marks and Spencers.
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24 Aug 20, 07:42 AM |
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I worked in littlewoods mostly clothing, sometimes foodhall, from when i was 16-17, i got about 1.20 an hour i think. Loved the job but feet ached so much with standing all day!
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24 Aug 20, 08:09 AM |
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Dibbing with Tink
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Another woollies worker here - I think from 1986 for three years. I clearly remember being 'promoted' to record bar! Met one of my still best friends at woolies and we loved doing the record bar together. We then became saturday supervisors and would often be left in charge if the manager had to pop out for anything - terrifying really at just 16 but we loved it. We used to have a bit of fun with the SALE stickers putting them sticky side up and watching people get them stuck on their shoes.
The best bit was working Sundays/bank holidays and getting double pay (soon dropped to time and a half, but it probably non existent now). And I liked wheeling the flower trolley outside at the end of the day to water the plants. Good times... I left woollies but went back as a trainee manager and then had my first store as store manager at 21! Still fond memories of good old woollies... but seems a lifetime ago.
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24 Aug 20, 08:30 AM |
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Another Woolies worker here! I worked behind the delicatessen (the number of times people tell me that Woolworths didn’t have deli counters!) and loved it! Was 1984/5 😀.
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24 Aug 20, 11:17 AM |
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Very Serious Dibber
Join Date: Sep 19
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Woolies should have a thread of it's own!
Does anyone remember the customer service training to be "warm fuzzies" and not "cold pricklies"? There was a lot of bawdy graffiti on the staff wall related to that! |
24 Aug 20, 11:44 AM |
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Dibbing with Tink
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OMG - yes I do remember this! And the pre-recorded training videos!
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24 Aug 20, 12:01 PM |
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Imagineer
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I worked in a bakery every Saturday. There were 5 of us who used to have to blitz all the floors, walls and machinery.
4.5 hours work for £8.64 😂 After that, I decided waitressing and kitchen work would be more profitable! I briefly worked at Sainsbury’s in the bread aisle. Soooooo boring |
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24 Aug 20, 01:40 PM |
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Imagineer
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I had various over the years. I remember helping out on my friends farm around the age of 12/13 which involved planting potatoes and picking fruit to sell in their farm shop. I ate more fruit than I picked and couldn’t face strawberries for months afterwards! I worked in a family run supermarket around 15/16 which I hated, but the best one was working in Superdrug whilst at college. I was rubbish, but the people were great and the money was good.
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24 Aug 20, 01:47 PM |
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Imagineer
Join Date: Mar 09
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In 1970 I worked in Clarks bakery from 8am till 6pm for £1 and they had a sausage roll machine that worked like a big wheel and it always needed its weekly clean on a Saturday! I hated it. Even my dad used to call the manageress "the witch" and he was a lovely man.
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