Re: FN-FORUM: Lunch (OT)

date posted 28th January 2005 19:32

On 28 Jan 2005 20:31:43 -0000, Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
>On Friday 28 Jan 2005 8:03 pm, Marc Wilson wrote:
>> On 28 Jan 2005 17:49:55 -0000, Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED] =
wrote:
>> >I digress. There was one guy there who never seemed to actually do =
any
>> >work, and whose main role seemed to be being some sort of court =
jester.
>>
>> My mother used to work for the Gas Board. When she was there, there =
was an
>> inspection by some sort of auditors, and they discovered four blokes =
in a
>> back room, playing cards. They all had sandwich boxes and flasks, and=
were
>> rapidly approaching retirement age.
>>
>> They were the department whose job it was to maintain the gas =
streetlights-
>> apparently, everyone had forgotten about them when their manager died =
just
>> after the last gaslights were de-commissioned. =20
>
>Great story! =20
>
>It does, , have some of the attributes of an urban myth, though.#
>

Nevertheless, a true story. Ormskirk depot, in the early 70s.
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Marc Wilson

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