Ex Employee
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:22 pm
I worked at Listers for over 23 years.
I grew up with many of the Lister employees, having gone to school with a lot of them.
In the earlier years nearly all employees were from Dursley or the surrounding villages.
It was Company custom of the Lister family to employ complete families if possible. If your mother or father worked there, you stood a good chance of getting a job there.
I enjoyed my time at Listers and would have liked to have spent the rest of my working life there, had it not been for the continuous redundancy situation. Every time there were redundancies and you were saved you spent the next six months or so wondering if you were going to be next.
That said everyone was friendly, we had lots of social life in the Club, Skittles, Tennis, bowling etc.
It would be nice if there could be a "Lister Reunion" like the school reunions for ex-employees and present employees.
I grew up with many of the Lister employees, having gone to school with a lot of them.
In the earlier years nearly all employees were from Dursley or the surrounding villages.
It was Company custom of the Lister family to employ complete families if possible. If your mother or father worked there, you stood a good chance of getting a job there.
I enjoyed my time at Listers and would have liked to have spent the rest of my working life there, had it not been for the continuous redundancy situation. Every time there were redundancies and you were saved you spent the next six months or so wondering if you were going to be next.
That said everyone was friendly, we had lots of social life in the Club, Skittles, Tennis, bowling etc.
It would be nice if there could be a "Lister Reunion" like the school reunions for ex-employees and present employees.