Tell us Something Really Trivial about your Life (VOL 30)
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glenrobbo said:
Dicky, did Trebor Bassett have to expand their factory premises due to their expanding workforce? 
It was a smashing job. Made better by the fact that the engineering consultancy was an Irish outfit and the crew were mostly Irish. By heck do they know how to have a good time. The huts we were in would be studiously quiet with everyone working away and then someone would say, "Should we have a drink tonight?" and the place came alive. Suddenly the office was buzzing. Marvellous to behold. And so simple; just the prospect of getting together after work for a drink set them off. The job itself was interesting too. The part of the factory we were extending was an Art Deco building, U-shape in plan. Our job was to fill the gap and make it rectangular. Four or five floors? Can't remember now. Production wasn't to stop and the sweet manufacture had to be shielded from the construction work.
Best thing of all was the factory shop. In addition to it being like a corner store with one of most things, there were most of Cadbury Schweppes products (Cadbury owned Trebor at the time) at reduced prices and also reject sweets at next to nothing. I particularly enjoyed the failed chocolate raisons. Clumps as big as golf balls. They could have introduced them as a new line they were that good.
Making sweets is money for nothing but the company's attitude to money was really odd. We were earning vastly more than the regular factory workers which is never a recipe for harmony. One woman retired while we were there. She left school at sixteen and went to work in the factory but didn't intend to stay so didn't join the pension scheme. She married and left to have a family and then went back when the kids went to school. Her whole career was on the production line at the sweet factory. But no pension. When she left the company gave her an ex gratia payment of £150. This was the same company whose idea of a joke was to name their factory improvement projects after precious commodities - Project Gold, Project Diamond and so on - because they would make so much more money for nothing.
One day one of the storemen died at work. There was a great hullaballoo. They would have a company-wide whip round for the poor widow. Tables were set up round the site for the workforce to chip in. Posters, balloons, buckets for money. Three shifts, round the clock production, hundreds of people. I read the Thank You card from the widow thanking everyone for the £45 she received. I couldn't believe it. I'd chucked in a fiver and had never met the bloke.
I went for a fortnight to update some drawings but stayed for a year and two weeks finishing up as the Irish Project Manager's gofer. Brilliant job.
glenrobbo said:
Bobberoo99 said:
Ppppsssstttttt!!!
I'm over here on the Alpha, working, like a cheap slave, i've got a HUGE tolerance to play with, all 0.013mm or 0.0005" in old money!!!!
A whole half a thou? !!! I'm over here on the Alpha, working, like a cheap slave, i've got a HUGE tolerance to play with, all 0.013mm or 0.0005" in old money!!!!
That's a HUGE amount to play with, Bobbers!
You lucky lucky b
d!!!king time!!!!! 
glenrobbo said:
Bobberoo99 said:
SWTH said:
Morning all.
????? Have you just become a granddad?? If so congratulations!!! 
Ex soldier of fortune.
!!!!! 
In my defence i am having a rather trying day, that's my story and i'm jolly well sticking to it!!! glenrobbo said:
Pericoloso said:
I wasn't 100% that was Lord Hewitt of Diana but guessed right.
He's aged a bit,surprisinglly.
It has been reported that he recently had a minor stroke.He's aged a bit,surprisinglly.
I think he had rather a lot more than that a while back.
I may be completely wrong of course.
I have resolved my original issues and am now zooming, nay, hurtling through my work load!!!!!
Oh alright then, i'm plodding through it, there, are you happy now?!?!?!?
glenrobbo said:
Dicky, did Trebor Bassett have to expand their factory premises due to their expanding workforce?
Barker & Dobson. They were Bertie Bassett’s.Lost a bloody fortune on their shares in about 1986 when they went from zillions to 11p each.
I don’t think I’ve ever recovered.
Pericoloso said:
I saw a 16 reg Corsa today with C**T PR**K scratched on the bonnet in 10" letters.
Upset some angry person.
Corsa? Upset some angry person.
That Alan Partridge has come down in the celebrity world since getting sacked from his night DJ slot on Radio Norwich.
Is he working for Haymarket these days?
Things haven’t gone well at work today. Late last night a pantograph on of the new Hitachi things took a fancy to a particular bit of overhead line near Ealing Broadway, collecting and damaging 500yds of cable behind it and damaging the wiring on the other three lines.
End result: the railway between Reading - Paddington totally shut between 2200 yesterday and 1230 today, and limited service this afternoon with only 50% capacity available to run trains on.
End result: the railway between Reading - Paddington totally shut between 2200 yesterday and 1230 today, and limited service this afternoon with only 50% capacity available to run trains on.
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