Telephone operator - (employment restrictions) : Jill Goldsmith

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When I went for my interview they said that I was too short at five foot two and a half, and being left handed would have been a handicap, so they didn't think that I would probably get the job but I heard finally, you know, after the tests and everything that they give you that I'd got the job. You were answerable to the head post master and that misdemeanour would then get fed back to a supervisor because once a week we all had to have what they were called refreshers where we would be allowed off the board for about an hour and we were refreshed, in other words on all our codes, our expressions and our misdemeanours and what we should do and what we shouldn't do. Once a week we had a refresher.