‘Did you know that a hundred-gram jar of Nescafe filled with 1p coins buys two packets of Benson and Hedges?’
Did you know that a hundred-gram jar of Nescafe filled with 1p coins buys two packets of Benson and Hedges? Did you know that a two-litre flagon of Paul Masson burgundy filled with 2p coins buys three regular-size bottles of Safeway’s claret? Did you know that a Steradent tube filled with 10p coin…
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‘I think there should be a National Service of Hospitality. The best way to see the true face of humanity is to serve it a plate of chips.’
Camilla Grudova on bad-mannered customers.
‘Anyone who has ever worked night shifts will understand the vertiginous feeling that comes with staring down the day from the wrong end.’
A.K. Blakemore on working nights.
‘I was constantly reading job ads, trying to find my holy grail – a job I could stand to do, and someone foolish enough to hire me.’
Sandra Newman on learning how to play professional blackjack.
‘I loved being a receptionist. What I loved about it was playing the part of being a receptionist.’
Emily Berry on being a temporary office worker.
‘Every part of you would swell, including your eyeballs, and no matter how much water you drank, you were always dehydrated.’
Junot Díaz on working for a steel mill.
Did you know that a hundred-gram jar of Nescafe filled with 1p coins buys two...
‘My first sighting of Paul Gascoigne was in 1987, when he was playing for Newcastle.’
‘The antitheses had been there all along but in July 1990, after Gascoigne’s World Cup triumph, they were given a new formulation.’
‘‘Who is Gazza?’ asked Mr Justice Harman in the High Court in September 1990.’
‘I’m going to give them a linear sense of time, just one direction, all the way!’
A new poem by Jack Underwood.
