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Natalie's problems with getting people to work in the Rovers on Millennium New Years Eve.

I worked in a pub during this period. I recall double, or triple time being offered to get people to work. No one was interested in working on the biggest New Year for standard rates, nor sacrifice their night off. Needless to say we did in the end, with the extra money offered.

This was also the new year eve when computers around the world were expected to crash en-mass, due to the Y2K bug, which turned out to be a load of cobblers.
 
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IngressUK said:
Natalie's problems with getting people to work in the Rovers on Millennium New Years Eve.

I worked in a pub during this period. I recall double, or triple time being offered to get people to work. No one was interested in working on the biggest New Year for standard rates.
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Today’s 2 eps were from the 8th & 10th December

Would she not have secured staff for Millennium Eve by this point and done the rotas for 4 weeks hence instead of just assuming that everyone was going to be available that night?
 
Cupid_Stunt said:
Today’s 2 eps were from the 8th & 10th December

Would she not have secured staff for Millennium Eve by this point and done the rotas for 4 weeks hence instead of just assuming that everyone was going to be available that night?
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I think the person I worked for started to arrange the rotas in November. Many were reluctant to work, especially those who were not scheduled to work. Hence an enhanced rate was offered.

The publican wanted as many as possible on, due to the rightly anticipated crowd expected.

I can recall the pub being shoulder to shoulder at one point, that is how busy it was.
 
Maid22 said:
Omg, now we have Fred dressed up as Father Christmas!! As for Ashley the elf 😂😂
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Oh my god 😂

Poor Ashley! I wonder what Maxime thought about that 😂

rivermonster said:
Jez Quigly - now the fun will start.
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I recognised that black leather jacket when he slunk into the pub. I don’t remember exactly what happens, I previously thought he came in when Des died. I do remember his eyebrows though…
 
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eeeee1 said:
I thought it used to be Iceland when it was a much smaller shop (the Firmans freezers days) but when it became freshcos and suddenly was an out of town larger supermarket, it was an Asda because it was all green outside but not sure.
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I think we’re all right. In the early days when Reg was there it was called Bettabuys which used a Morrisons store, it then got bought out by Firmans Freezers which was an Iceland which in turn got bought out by Freshco which is now (in Classic Corrie) an Asda

This link talks about Bettabuys and it using a Morrisons

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Bettabuy

Bettabuy was a Leeds based chain of supermarkets, with the Weatherfield branch on Albert Road often frequented by the residents of Coronation Street. Reg Holdsworth, Curly Watts and Andy McDonald as part of management and had among the staff Vera Duckworth, Ivy Brennan, and Maureen Holdsworth. A...
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