See at my work? They're no allowed to change any of the lights unless all electricity's off.
Cheryl:
We're no allowed to touch anything. We hae to get folk out-- oo've no even got like, mechanics,
Sadie:
Oo've got mechanics.
Cheryl:
oo have to like, phone specific companies to come in and dae stuff.
Sadie:
It's ridiculous.
Cheryl:
Like--
Sadie:
Same in, like-- work places, like, see in em, like, offices? If your light bulb gings, you're no allowed to touch it, you hae to build a mini scaffolding until you-- to put a new light bulb in.
Cheryl:
Oh no. The-- well the--
Sadie:
And that's-- that's nae even a lie, they hae to build mini scaffoldings.
Cheryl:
No, well the fella at Boots just stands on a ladder. That's it.
Sadie:
Mhm.
Cheryl:
Just stands on a ladder. But, like, it's-- as daft as it is, like, I was doing all my E-learning and stuff like that when they gie-- you have to do like, your em, ken like, your data protection, like, health and safety and all that? And like, for the ones that they've got-- it's called "Working at a Height" and I-- a height is, like, you know those little stools you get in shops?
Interviewer:
Yeah.
Cheryl:
The little plasticy looking things? Is that-- that's my working at a height. Now, I had to sit and pass an E-test before I could stand on that to change something on the top shelf.
Older speakers
Elaine:
And honestly, the time passes.
Hugh:
Eh, it doesnae in the afternoons.
Elaine:
Well, I'm always oot in an afternoon, I've always got somewhere to ging. Um, 'cause it can be long if you're in the afternoon and you're in at night. Mhm. But I can put my coat on and ging away for a walk, you see and I dinnae mind.
Interviewer:
Mhm, yeah.
Elaine:
Mhm, but other than that, we're-- we just live quite quietly, saving the pennies for our holidays.
