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I started work here in early March 1981, just after I got made redundant from Ernest Turners, an
engineering company, I had enjoyed working as an engineertoo. If I could turn back the clock, I would never have stayed here,
the work was hard, but working with some of the people there was even harder. It was a closed shop, not just the Sogat Union,
but the actual workers were a closed shop too. You had to have had a relative there to get the job in the first place, they
were never advertised locally. I actually got my job because my step-dad joe had worked there for many years, but he didn't
work in the department that I did. At first when I went there, it didn't seem too bad, how wrong I was. I met a girl
called Sue there, I used to be in the same class as her when we were in middle school, she already had a good friend there,
a girl called Julie, who was a year older than us. I used to hang around with these two at tea breaks and dinner times for
around the first year or so, but besides Sues wedding, I didn't actually socialise with them after work.
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