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Mary Smith, paid weekly for shooting dried peas at workers' windows to wake them for their shifts, Britain, 1930s (lemmy.world)
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[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago

She was a knocker upper

(Which is a real name for this job, not a joke)