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Lost in the cloud
More trainee humiliation: ‘When working in a super secret military organisation looking at negatives of vertical photography, the standard jape was to send a very junior member of staff to the stores to get a bottle of cloud remover to allow us to see more of the target,’ says Andrew Pooley.
Even more trainee humiliation, again from Alex Bailey’s Post Office Telecoms days. ‘From the same telephone exchange that sent me for “a long weight” another apprentice returned empty-handed at teatime from the cake shop to guffaws of laughter with the explanation: “the woman behind the counter said tell them at the telephone exchange that we’ve run out of pregnant tarts, but they have a fresh delivery of hot cross buns”.
Stop sniggering! Some of these apprentices are running BT by now.
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