The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir - Pam Ayres
The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir - Pam Ayres "Next, Iapplied to work in the accounts department, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. I knew what was…
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The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir - Pam Ayres
"Next, Iapplied to work in the accounts department, a sealed room where women operated clattering machines like enormous typewriters. I knew what was coming. After I had catastrophically and erroneously applied all the wrong information to several trolley loads of documents and lumbered the staff with weeks of corrective work, I was shown the door by a tight-lipped manageress.
Though her parents' generation was harrowed by war, better times were coming. Over the relentless, furious din of machinery, I lip-read the familiar words: "Lacks the necessary aptitude.""Pam Ayres' early childhood in Stanford in the Vale was idyllic in many ways, and typical of that experienced by a great swathe of children born in rural areas in the immediate postwar years. Everything the family needed was within walking distance in the village, and life with four older brothers and a sister in their
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