The Interview - November 1969

 

1994 - before vandalism set in

As I write here I have an admission to make but it is important because, had I not had the experience, I would not have begun my 15 year stint at the dairy in the first place. 

I do not applaud the fact, the visitor here is assured of that.

The Interview.

I think it was a Thursday sometime in November 1969 when I attended an interview in one of the small back offices in the wooden building shown on the right in the photo - then the Foreman's Office.

The proposed employment was for the separator floor and might have been a temporary position.

The interview, conducted by Personnel Officer Danny Eynstone, progressed as he filled the form with my details.

It all appeared in order 'till, at the last sentence, I informed him that "I have to tell you I am due in court for stealing from my previous employer."

Danny didn't even pause nor look up from the form. 

He replied, casually, " You can't steal milk, it runs out your trousers, be here to start Tuesday next 1:45pm". 

Danny, sitting, at his retirement
flanked by Jim Thacker, Ken Stacey, John Sharples, Alan Prouse & John Davis.
photo: Torrington Museum.

I am eternally grateful to Danny. 

The following day I informed my father who was only marginally impressed. 

"You won't stick that for long", he remarked as he looked up from his boiled egg.

He was wrong. I took to the job like a duck to water.

....to be continued...