BBC SCHOOLS - GOING TO WORK: Motorway Services (TX 15.11.1982)

Motorway services in the early 1980's! They have certainly changed these days. We look at some services which open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and they offer young people a variety of job opportunities in shops, in catering, and on the forecourt. From my own personal collection of N1700 video tapes. Uploaded purely for educational purposes only.

[@klawlor3659]

" You've got the displayyyyy all wrong....the ham should be here, chicken looks terrible..." Nothing like a manager who helps you feel positive about your work!

[@Aerojet01]

This is why you need life experience before becoming a manager. A 17 year old is far too young.

[@klawlor3659]

@@Aerojet01 Totally agree. Someone who is more rounded and who can relate to people and humans varied lifestyles would help! I think I'd be looking for alternative employment if that bint was my boss!

[@Juliukas101]

I didn't like that manager. She seemed like a right old cow!

[@mistofoles]

Simon blew it straight away, you're supposed to be wear a vis-vest/jacket when you go out on the forecourt so motorists can easily see you.

[@brizzleboi]

4 different fuel companies at the pumps - healthy competition. I wonder if the prices were the same.

[@klawlor3659]

That Alison is an absolute witch! "I got the job because my attitude is right", she says as she castigates the other employees and has zero customer service skills!

[@Juliukas101]

Agreed, she was horrible, and full of herself!

[@bsasteve]

You don't get electric shock from changing a bulb unless you put your finger in the socket.

[@LANCSKID]

… or your tongue!

[@80ssynthfan48]

Good combination - Bart followed by the Going To Work theme.

[@BruceDanton-xw6eg]

Yes indeed too.

[@brucedanton3669]

Very nice there then too of course. Thank you-well done too!

[@andrewmundin2513]

All those spaces and the first guy to fill his car up and he forgets which side his petrol cap is on the car

[@adrianatkins3128]

Absolutely loved my time working for THF roadside during this era

[@Sheffield_Steve]

12:02 Simon's getting a bit bolshi there with the manager! 🤭🤣🤬

[@mistofoles]

Ha ! 17 yo trainee manager. I hated that where I used to work. - I started there when I was 30, I worked there for 12 years, and they put some snot-nose who was barely out of school in charge of me, thinking they knew everything.

[@mariecoll6784]

Service Manager at 17😮

[@mistofoles]

@13:59 - Wow, we always had to have to a shot of a Cortina/ Granada no matter what the show was in these old clips. didn't we ? Did Ford have a sub-contract with BBC or something ??

[@mistofoles]

If it takes Anne 20 - 25 minutes to clean one room, how is she going to do 10 in 3 hours ?

[@Juliukas101]

That vacuum cleaner she was using looked like a museum piece!

[@mistofoles]

WTF ? Kiosk staff climbing on the tanker ? Guess they weren't too big on H and S back then.

[@mistofoles]

Wait a minute.....Allison was only 17 and she said she'd already been there 2 1/2 years ??

[@mistofoles]

Kelvin later got a job playing Gary Mallet in CORONATION STREET.

[@sarahwelty9223]

They always played groovy music before the programme started

[@mistofoles]

Annette looks pretty pissed off with having a boss who's young enough to be her daughter !

[@ashleylane180]

This is my dream watch. One day I hope to be able to afford one. This is absolutely one of the best watches I have ever seen, and trust me I have seen a lot. 😊

[@klawlor3659]

Poor Annette 😢😢

[@Sheffield_Steve]

I hope Annette put in her claim for Laundry expenses if she had two uniforms that you take home and wash yourself?? 🤣

[@mistofoles]

@7:10 "SURGEON'S WIFE: NEW MOVES ! " "HEATH ROCKS TORY BOAT !" Gasp !

[@jamesmitchell8922]

13:00 If his hands weren't dry...

[@DL-go1xh]

Dennis, 21 looks 39 and dislikes, looking 39 in his man-alive polyester parka. Looks, 39 disdainful as he can go in a layby and dislikes supervision at 39 on his milky mobile machine reducing him entirely of ever looking 21 again.

[@gilesglossop5071]

17:45 "Lunchburger" time at 2pm! I always thought that, by defintion, a 'lunchburger' (one word) could only ever be eaten between 12 noon and 1:30pm, and any other time you will get violent gastric spasms. These motorway types are mavericks with living their lives in the fast lane....

[@mistofoles]

Yup, switch off the fwyer and fill it with wohta, very commendable.

[@Sheffield_Steve]

He cleans his fwyer better than those dirty sods on Bar Rescue or Ramsey's Nightmares!! 🤣

[@mistofoles]

Kelvin's attitude was a little hostile.

[@pauluz1969]

I wonder where Dennis is now.

[@mistofoles]

He's still there, he's the senior road sweeper now.

[@LANCSKID]

@@mistofolesand he still looks as if he could do with a good night’s sleep.

[@DL-go1xh]

A649 up left side of embankment, wrong gear.

[@gplunk]

So many sh t jobs in those service industries; no wonder I was stoned half the time....

[@zetametallic]

It looked pretty boring all of it.

[@mistofoles]

Might be a good idea to wear gloves when you're handling soda crystals, son - Just a thought.

[@LANCSKID]

Yes, and don’t go filling up the salt cellars without checking first this time.

[@mistofoles]

@16:05 - The lunchtime rush. Looks busy, doesn't it ?

[@russellford5597]

19:12 Staff must be mature enough to handle cash but a 17 year old managing staff is fine. 🤦‍♂️

[@jamesmitchell8922]

Where's Esso?

[@mistofoles]

Couldn't Dennis speak for himself ? How come all the main characters did a narrative except for him ?

[@DL-go1xh]

Dennis can only think, not talk and drive and he's in a 'Man Alive' polyester parka which is wrong gear.

[@mistofoles]

Using a dipstick ? Simon WAS a dipstick ! Surely there would have been a gauge on the tanker that told you exactly how much fuel it was holding ?

[@Redchannelconditions]

Dennis is 21?! Bollocks.

[@alzeNL]

who the hell stays at a motorway hotel for 3 nights !!

[@russellford5597]

Alan Partridge.

[@WillScarlet1991]

@@russellford5597 🤣🤣

[@markobrien2228]

They sound so brain dead ...