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John Gilbert. Portrait for the 1990 exhibition, "Bridging The Years". |
John Gilbert - OvertimeBorn 1923 Beswick, Manchester. Interviewed in 1989 - T031  Click here to listen to this extract in RealAudio format.Q: Was it compulsory overtime? Well, you were expected to do it, let's put it that way. What we tried to do was run a rota - cause our boss, he was, you know, quite fair like that, he used to say - one of the things I liked about it - he said - because he was pressed at one time to put an evening shift, a night shift on to keep the vehicles rolling, but he said to me, "John, that means you're going to have to be here at nights, cause I'm not going to come at nights! You don't want that , do you ? So I've been to a meeting and I've said that we will maintain the vehicles by working overtime at night, four nights a week or five nights a week if we have to do. So set a rota up ... so they do two or three nights." And generally speaking, the lads were glad of the overtime, because it was extra money, you see ... Time and a half up to midnight, and double time after midnight till the next morning, till the starting time. Regular Sundays. |
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