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Working Class or not?

A friend loudly proclaims that he is working class although his father was a senior bank employee, owned rental properties and drove a Humber Super Snipe ( a luxury car of the 1960's). I say with a background like that he can't be working class, what do you guys think?

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+6 Views: 880 Answers: 6 Posted: 8 years ago

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nomdeplume

To me a working class person was raised in a council house, his dad worked down the pit or in a factory, rode a bike and read the Sun , .BTW, my friend is a retired prison officer if that makes a difference.

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ROMOS

Don't ever accuse my late Father of reading the Sun.......LOL.

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nomdeplume

OK ROMOS, the Daily Herald.

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ROMOS

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Karl Marx will be spinning in his tomb, NOT.

It seems the lifestyle this guy was brought up in wasn't really what you might call "working class", middle, maybe.

8 years ago. Rating: 12
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terryfossil 1

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Gotta be a middle class worker,although i worked as a labourer,which is working class,however the pay was more of a middle class pay..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..

8 years ago. Rating: 11
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hector5559

I need a bit of work on my garden terry,when you have the time that is old chap,

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terryfossil 1

I am on the first plane Hec,,$24.60 an hour..>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<..

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mycatsmom

you must have been in a union, Terry

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terryfossil 1

I certainly was MCM,,however when i got sacked the union was not worth crap..unions these days are in bed with the company,<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>..

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jhharlan

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Who cares what the father did? My grandfather was famous nation wide (both grandfather were) and I’m still of the working class. Doesn’t class refer to status of one’s immediate being?

8 years ago. Rating: 10
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hector5559

Yes Yes,Miss Juilie,

commented 8 years ago

Tommyh

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My father was a coal miner.I'm a carpenter so I guess I'm WC.

8 years ago. Rating: 9
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mycatsmom

Tom, you're more of a skilled tradesman. that's gray collar

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mycatsmom

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Tommyh

That's nice Julie.I wonder who did the work.

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hector5559

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You can always tell norm,when you are having A drink with him does he spit into the spittoon on the bar room floor?????or just swoler it and pretend to cough,

8 years ago. Rating: 9
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mycatsmom

gross . :-O

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Bob/PKB

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I agree with jhharlan. What one's parent(s) or grandparent(s) did doesn't dictate whether one is working class or otherwise in their own career. I suppose we call it "white collar" and "blue collar" around here. Someone who doesn't need to use "Lava" or that orange soap to clean his hands after work would be "white collar". Someone who uses his hands and doesn't sit on his tush all day would be "blue collar".
As for your friend, if he was more of a supervisor than a supervised, I'd call him "white collar". If he was in the trenches, I'd be more inclined to call him "working class" or "blue collar".

8 years ago. Rating: 5
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nomdeplume

My friend was a prison officer so was a supervisor according to your criteria.

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Bob/PKB

Clarification : did he supervise other officers? Supervision of prisoners was not the criteria I meant to use.
"In the trenches" - not sitting at a desk

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nomdeplume

He was in charge of prisoners so was in the trenches, having had a pisspot thrown at him by one of the Kray twins.

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hector5559

That would be a collectors thing today,

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Bob/PKB

I would consider him "blue collar" or "working class". Certainly that experience isn't "white collar".

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