Rhythm Thief
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- Location
- Ross on Wye
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When i started my YTS in 1985 as a diesel fitter there was a girl on the course training as a mechanic (long before Charlene on Neighbours) ... people claimed she wouldn't be strong enough to lift a cylinder head off the engine block or perform other heavy tasks. As i worked on the buses everything weighed a ton, so there was nowt wrong with asking a colleague to give a helping hand... so even their, strength shouldn't be an issue (plus I'm a scrawny lanky git and probably no stronger than the average girl)
When I worked for Chep a few years back, there was a female driver on nights with me. The job was quite physical - you may have seen the lorries about the place, they carry 30 stacks of blue pallets up to around 15'10 high, all of which need strapping on - and there was some disquiet about giving her the job. I was talking to her one night and she was saying how for the first six months or so she'd had to really struggle to prove herself. She couldn't ask the other drivers for help throwing the straps over a load as it would be taken as a sign she wasn't up to the job, whereas I could and no one would bat an eye. And I throw like ... well, I was going to say "like a girl", but that wouldn't be quite right in this instance.