NEEDCOM:
 
Do you think the afternoon's better than the morning?
 
 
STEVE:
 
No, you can't work in the bank in the morning, 'cause you can't come in here in the morning time. But this bank—she (Prim) does it in the morning time, 'cause we know the people here. I come here at five o'clock because I look for jobs everyday. Five o'clock, it's my turn to come to the bank. That's when I come.
 
 
NEEDCOM:
 
You guys have kind of made an arrangement?
 
 
STEVE:
 
Yeah, me and her (Prim) work together.
 
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NEEDCOM:
 
Do you work in shifts?
 
 
PRIM:
 
No, I call this mine, because nobody worked at this one, everybody worked at all the other ones, nobody used to work in here, so I started working here, so it's mine. But I let Donald—I was here a little bit earlier, and I went to get something to eat, and I let him work while I went to get something to eat.
 
Now soon there's another guy (Steve) that be coming here, and he works too. I don't run people away saying, "You can't work." I don't do that, because everybody that needs, needs! I make mine, then I'll go, and let them make theirs.
 


 
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