Lesley Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Oh! Sheila - the Hot Pants and being innocent! I was working in a bakery but had just applied for, and got, a job at the Bank. I went for my interview all neatly dressed in black skirt and white blouse. I needed to ask the Bank Manager something before I started so after finishing at the bakery I went round to the Bank and asked to see him. As I left and walked towards a shop with a large plate glass window I saw my reflection! I wasn't embarrassed then about the Hot Pants but the zip was all undone Now I can't believe I went to see the Bank Manager wearing that outfit - he was Mayor as well at the time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 LESLEY!! Have you no shame! As I read your message I thought for one awful moment you were going to say you discovered that your skirt was tucked into your knickers - something I have always dreaded and been paranoid about! Olivia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Now I can't believe I went to see the Bank Manager wearing that outfit .. But Lesley, Did you get the job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Sarah Jo, Of course she did - he was a man wasn't he !!! Olivia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Yes I did but what I didn't know was that I was pregnant at the time and I had to go and see him again just a week after starting work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 for one awful moment you were going to say you discovered that your skirt was tucked into your knickers Olivia .... when she went the 2nd time after getting the job, Lesley had the skirt in her knickers ..... , sort of thing pregnancy does to you . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Only kidding Lesley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 This is amazing,Lesley. My 1st job, at 16, was in a bank, where I worked for 5 years before joining OH in own business. Well, 5 years with a 3 month sabbatical, when OH & I drove with another couple in aforementioned Austin Cambridge to France, seeking our fame & fortune. I had actually resigned from bank, but when I returned (sooner than expected, homesick & penniless) they offerred me a job again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 Sheila, did the Bank offer you a job again because YOU were wearing hotpants?!! Olivia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheilaz Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 Just very short skirts by then! It was such a sexist environment...1973 I started...& elsewhere "Women's lib" was having an impact but hadn't reached the bank (or me come to think of it). After a couple of months I spoke to the manager's assistant who arranged day release at the local college for banking exams & qualifications. He replied that they were really only for the boys & it really wouldn't be relevant to me. Being very shy, I just took his word for it. Incredible that he said that. (& that I said nothing) But, worse, a couple of years later when I went to see a different assistant manager about a higher graded specific job, he asked really personal questions....but you're engaged, when are you getting married?...and presumably you'll be having children at some stage. I knew that didn't feel appropriate but still kept quiet! Imagine that line of questioning now (and my reaction now that I've come out of my shell!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 31, 2005 Share Posted March 31, 2005 I knew that didn't feel appropriate but still kept quiet! Imagine that line of questioning now (and my reaction now that I've come out of my shell!) Sheila, I knew it - you really are a chicken disguised as a human !!! Olivia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sheilaz Posted March 31, 2005 Author Share Posted March 31, 2005 Yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrat Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 LESLEY!! Have you no shame! As I read your message I thought for one awful moment you were going to say you discovered that your skirt was tucked into your knickers - something I have always dreaded and been paranoid about! Olivia Don't ask me how I know this, but it used to be a stewardess initiation on a famous UK airline to tuck their already short skirts (in those days) into their knickers and walk from the back of the aircraft towards the front, the idea was not to get caught (passengers all looking forwards.) I don't think initiations happen at peoples work these days, political correctness has spoiled all the fun. Stuart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 So you're not going to tell us how you know then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Oh no Stuart you should see what my little band of monsters (staff) did to the girl who left last Friday lets just say the change of underwear came in very handy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Tell us more Louise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrat Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 So you're not going to tell us how you know then? Its a bit like a doctor/patient thing, some things the Reaper can't reveal Stuart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Louise Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 It involved alot of water poor girl was soaked through but it is quite common for that to happen here on a last day so a change of clothes etc is a must. In fact I bring spare stuff in as well in case I go round the corner and get a bucketful by accident I shouldn't let them do it but it seems harmless if a little messy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 What is your job Louise? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliviaDavies Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 I was just going to ask the same thing Lesley!! I am dying to know - don't keep us in suspense Louise!! Olivia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 I did remember something else whilst driving home last night my ex husband used to have a butchers shop in the Oxford Covered Market and they used to have initiation things with the other shops where they would send the trainees usually young lads 17/18 years old to the other shops and make them ask for things like a set of fallopian tubes or the long weight or long/big stand and obvious ones like the left handed spanner and other completely juvenile pranks I seem to remember one involved a cows eye dropped in the mug of tea (I need the vomit emoticon!!) you can't do that now as they don't get cows head anymore but I am sure they probably use pigs eyes these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 It did seem to be more of a Seventies thing didn't it? You've reminded me that my ex was a mechanic (now a Chef ) and went through all the usual left-handed spanners etc. but also there was an initiation involving a grease gun (and a change of clothes!) Louise is a 'Civil Servant' according to her Questionnaire - could cover a multitude of sins! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Oh it does Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
