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Factory life in the industrial north, eh? And these are only the Christmas stories.

Seeing as this thread has popped up again, here is another one. It was about 30 years ago, the year before I went to this particular factory. In those days, you had to employ a certain quota of disabled people, and if you couldn't you had to get a special permit from the Jobcentre. So this...

The other halves want to attend, normally because they can't trust their employee partner - either to behave on the night or they have suspicions built up over the previous 12 months and want to see body language, etc, or pick up gossip. The company encourages the other halves because it raises...

The episode that I forgot was the one I swerved (as I must have had a premonition). For evening do’s, the Company would pay half of the price for a ‘double’ ticket (i.e the employee’s share), so the level of ‘do’ depended upon how much the employees wanted to pay for their other half. One year...

Great when you are a junior employee but a nightmare when you're the gaffer. Used to have to go to several at different sites and never enjoyed them. Running three-shift rotation factories meant that if you had a Christmas lunch even at 2pm, you would lose the afternoon shift, have to lose the...