Momentum – October 2012
The month of August saw us bid our fond farewells to Plastribution stalwart and team member Roger Bradwell.
Retirement is often a bitter sweet occasion. There is clearly great happiness in wishing someone a brand new chapter in life – even a little envy at all the rest and recreation to hopefully come!
But there is also some sadness; that a skill set and a set of memories and experiences will be lost to colleagues and to the business.
Such was the mood on Thursday August 23rd when we gathered to celebrate Roger’s life and times with the company. Roger of course was with Plastribution right from its beginnings in 1987. He started his career with Plaspitch, a company within Plastribution, then moved to work in the transport office at Stanton and then onto the sales team, including spells on the road as a sales representative. After a gap of some seven years Roger returned to the business in September 2002, remaining here since.
Roger recalls that “my first job, back in 1965, was working in a pottery, doing time and motion studies, not the most interesting job!! However, when I left Grammar School there were far more opportunities in work, unlike today.”
Since then Roger’s work has embraced many different
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industries from pottery, to Derby County Football Club, and then to the plastics industry. “Overall,” he says that “I have found the world of work is far more challenging now than when I started. Business was far more personal in those days and of course, technology has now come on leaps and bounds. I was a wages clerk in my second job, and calculated pay with a slide rule, much different to today’s methods!
My Plastribution days saw me moving from Stanton, near Burton- on-Trent, to Market Street in Ashby, an old building, with many offices over several floors, much different to where we are based now. Plastribution has always been a friendly place to work, time for a laugh and joke, but work hard.
I am now really looking forward to retirement, excited and a little scared, as we are moving to start a new adventure in Spain. Luckily we already have family over there. I will miss working, especially the friendliness and kindness of the staff at Plastribution. I will hopefully be taking up golf; have already found a gym and am looking forward to relaxing in the sun.”
Roger is retired but not forgotten. We wish him all the very best for the future.
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