Job titles that have disappeared

Christine it doesn't mention jobs you've done in the title
It's actually saggar not sagger, my mistake. It's to do with the pottery industry (my dad's work) and the containers used for fireing the pots.

Sorry I misread the title didn't realise it was jobs we had done. downtoearth you were quite right about the knocker upper. Even I am not that old.
I've heard of sagger makers bottom knocker but not sure what the job was.

Clerkess. I worked with a Scottish lady who said that was really used for a female clerk.

Sagger makers bottom knocker

I kid you not !

Was not were!

ana my reply to you was tongue-in-cheek, good for that consultant.

I sat for hours in team meetings where one of the discussions were whether the secretaries (including me) should be called Executive Assistants or Business Assistant to the Executive.

What about Timpson's?

Must get off this thread, sorry...

Cobbler

Bus conductor

Well, I know my hospital consultant has a secretary who types all his notes and correspondence - her job title is just that - Mr X's secretary.

ana I think that is now done by Personal Assistants, or Executive Assistants, or Business Support Assistants in other words ... secretaries!

Secretaries are still very much around, JackyB!

Who do you think types all solicitors' letters and business and goverment correspondence?

I was a telex operator for a while.

Not a job I had personally, thank heavens, but I remember a man with a big shovel clearing out the earth closet toilets in our street via a hinged door in the wall below them. I have no idea what his official title was, but I think I can guess what the grown-ups called him

When I was young there used to be a programme called Emergency Ward 10 and on there was a Lady Almoner ( a sort of social worker) I wanted to be one of those.

Secretary.

The demise of the secretary is the downfall of modern society. Nowadays the "bosses" write their own e-mails, full of spelling mistakes, grammatical and punctuation errors, and totally incomprehensible sentences. Misunderstandings abound.

Alima I was a key punch operator 1965-66, also a verifier. Went back to it in 1974 before becoming a data input operator, then a VDU (Visual Data Unit) operator.

GK think the knocker upper had a long stick and went round tapping windows to get people up and out to work ..yhey where employed by factory and Mill owners to make sure employees got there on time ....sure that is what I have read somewhere

Grannyknot in the mill towns a man would come round very early in the morning with a long pole and bang of the bedroom windows of the mill workers to wake them up. I don't know who woke him. This would be 5/6 am. Thinking logically he couldn't have had a very large round!!

downtoearth we just called him the 'meter man'.

I was in a bedsit for a while in 1977 and the meter there only took 50p coins However I was working and was able to get a mid-day meal in the staff canteen so 50p would last me a week on the electric.

What on earth is or was a knocker upper?

We had shilling ones Ann but gas and electric ..was a red letter day ..in the late 70s and 80s when children where young It often saved the day when the meter man came by then it was 10p though...couldn't wait to see those piles of silver given back to me ..happy days

Did you have a penny or a shilling meter DTE ? We had a shilling one. I can't remember how very full the penny ones must have been or how often they needed emptying. Ours would get petty full as we only had gas which was used for everything.

Just realised how wrong that sounds...I meant she was happy to see him......when in a hole stop digging

Didn't know what he was called...but when he did he made mum a happy lady....and us kids got 2 bob as well

The man who emptied the gas and electric meter