[speaker001:] ... do you find the, I mean do you find the management alright, do you get on okay with them and everything?
[speaker002:] Mm, aye. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Nobody really crabby?
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] No, there isn't really. Cos in my office there's quite a lot of bosses in my office,
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] cos it's the production control so
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] just talk to them like anybody else does.
[speaker001:] What do, what do you actually do in your office, is it like telephone duties or typing or what?
[speaker002:] A bit of everything. Just do everything really.
[speaker001:] Mhm. Do you get to know all the different people that ph ring up, all the different clients and that?
[speaker002:] Well we don't speak to clients, it's just salesmen and
[speaker001:] Aha.
[speaker002:] people I speak to.
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] Talking to quite a lot of different people.
[speaker001:] Mhm... do you get to know basically everything work. So how did you get erm the job in the office? Was it just a, within the factory, out about it?
[speaker002:] No it was been here for six weeks and I was just expecting to leave
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] and I was gonna go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me, just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] I was to go.
[speaker001:] So it was just luck really? Were you relieved?
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] I don't know, I didn't really want to work in an office.
[speaker001:] No.
[speaker002:] I'd prefer to work in a factory.
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] That's right, if I didn't work in the office I didn't work in the factory. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Oh I see, aha.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] So you didn't have a great deal of choice?
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Oh well... Anything else? [LAUGHTER]... I don't think most of these questions apply to you actually because they're mostly like for the kind of older women, I was gonna ask them about how they er coped with the, you know, running a house and [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] I'm not gonna insult you by asking are you really that old. [LAUGHTER] You're not planning to get married in the future then? [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Yes [LAUGHTER]
[Ken:] Would you recommend this job to er other folk your age or
[speaker002:] I didn't have very good qualifications
[Ken:] Aha.
[speaker002:] here, good qualifications
[speaker001:] [cough] Excuse me. Aha. Have you ever thought about like maybe going to college or?
[speaker002:] No.
[speaker001:] No?
[speaker002:] I'm just not, I'm not interested in it, no.
[speaker001:] You're not academic, you don't like it?
[speaker002:] No.
[speaker001:] So what kind of hobbies have you got? Do you do anything like, do you have any friends from work that you see outside of work?
[speaker002:] 's boyfriend, he works here.
[speaker001:] Oh well, you met him, did you meet him here, aha?... Well it hasn't been a complete loss. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Well I don't know. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Do you do anything, I mean do they do, do any trips, like to the lights of Blackpool or anything now?
[speaker002:] Well occasionally somebody runs something but not very often.
[speaker001:] Aha. Do they have a football team now?
[speaker002:] They used to, but don't think, they haven't got one now.
[speaker001:] No, cos
[speaker002:] They've just got a snooker team and a golf club and
[speaker001:] Aha.
[speaker002:] things like that.
[speaker001:] Aye, and are a lot of people involved in that that work in the factory?
[speaker002:] Just the men.
[speaker001:] Mhm, the women don't have any clubs then?
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Och no, we can't have that, you'll
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] have to start some. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] No just the men.
[speaker001:] Just the men, what's the kind of proportion of women to men in the factory?
[speaker002:] I'd say it was about half and half in the factory but higher up it's all men.
[speaker001:] All men aha.
[Ken:] Does that bug you?
[speaker002:] Not really, it doesn't annoy me but I know there are some... like women older than me in... in my office that know they're not gonna get anywhere because it's all men.
[Ken:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Mhm. a wee bit of resentment?
[speaker002:] Aye, cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type, well an assistant to an assistant manager [LAUGHTER] kind of thing [] so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she's been here for like sixteen years or whatever.
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] So, and she knew about the office, and I knew about the office and knew everything they were wanting me to know but a man got it from outside so
[speaker001:] Oh right.
[speaker002:] It was a bit
[speaker001:] Aha.
[Ken:] Do you ever feel like changing at all?
[speaker002:] No, not really, [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] No it's all men. Do they ever send you on training courses or anything like that?
[speaker002:] No.
[speaker001:] Do you feel your job's secure?
[speaker002:] As long as the factory's here I'll be here I would.
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] It's a job that they need somebody to do, they couldn't just
[speaker001:] Mhm.
[speaker002:] pay you off and things
[speaker001:] Aha.
[speaker002:] would just pile up and, you'd always need somebody.
[speaker001:] Aha, so
[speaker002:] somebody. [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Okay?
[Ken:] Mhm.
[speaker001:] Smashing.