Woman sacked with two days notice after working at Clarks for 68 years

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Jill Cornick began working at the Clarks store in Blandford, Dorset, in 1956, when she was just 14 years old.

Jill Cornick worked at a Clarks shop in Dorset for 68 years A pensioner who worked at Clarks for nearly seven decades has been let go from the shop she dedicated her life to- after being given just a week’s notice. Shoe shop worker Jill Cornick began working at the store in Blandford, Dorset, in 1956, when she was just 14 years old. She then continued to work at the same shop every day for the next 68 years, even postponing her honeymoon in 1969 in order to attend a training course.

‘In some instances I have helped four generations in the same family to size their shoes. ‘I think now I’m going to have a rest and go to the beach more. I won’t be travelling anywhere to work. I will do charity work or something. ‘I loved the job, it was my life. I lived there above the shop for years and brought my son up there. I will miss it but I don’t want to start again now.’ Mrs Cornick’s first job at Clarks was cleaning hob nail studded boots in 1956.

 

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