b"Did any members of your family speak Yiddish?Believe it or not, my mother was born here, spoke Yiddish. My father didn't. He didn't speak Yiddish and he wasborn in Hungary. Well, I have an appointment at Trader Joe's.What time is your appointment at Trader Joe's?Whenever you let me out of here. \x02Charles W. ThompsonHuman Resource Administration, Store KeeperMembership since 1965The following is an edited version of Charles Thompsons oral history interview fromApril 4, 2016.I started to work for the city in September of 1964. We were with DC 37 at the time. We switched to the Teamsters in September of 1965; we voted them in to represent us. I was 35.Did you have another job before working for the City of New York?Certainly. I was a cutter in the Sternberg House in the Garment Center on 26th Street. I was a cutter with children'sand young ladies clothes. When I started working for the City, I worked with the Department of Welfare, which later was called the Departmentof Social Services. Now it's the Human Resource Administration.I started out in commodities distributing food in 1964.They cut that program, and I went to medical payments. I kept records for medical payments from '70. Then from there,I went to Social Services in 1978. I went to the warehouse and I worked there until '82. I got promoted and I went to adultshelters at East 3rd Street. I stayed there until I retired in '89.What were the job titles for each of these jobs?When I was with the commodities, I was Assistant Stockman; then I got promoted to Stockman. We were in the fielddistributing surplus good. We would go to different locations. We had about three or four locations a month we had to goto. We had to go to the Lower East Side, 86th Street, 87th Street, Brooklyn and Staten Island.When I went to medical records, I worked on West 34th Street. We would keep the records for a couple of months,then we had to send them to the warehouse in Brooklyn.Then when I went to adult shelters, I was the Store Keeper. There I was a Buyer; I bought, the clothing, food, every-thing that they needed. I had to do the ordering for men and the women; they had two different shelters.60 "