PJ Vogt

I've worked in retail jobs before and I didn't find it too exciting.

Did you feel more like, I'm working a retail job at Buckingham Palace, or did you feel like, I'm working a retail job at Buckingham Palace?

Like, did the specialness of the palace permeate your days?

I think you don't see it until you do something else.

So that was the first job I'd ever had.

And then I went and worked the year later at my local Tesco's, which is like your... Supermarket.

Yeah, supermarket.

And I was doing like fruit and veg.

So I was doing food stuff.

And at that point I was thinking, I was like, a year ago I was working in Buckingham Palace and then it hits you.

And you're like, wow, I got a level of access to this place that most people in their lifetime will never get.

It's also the thing I can like hold over my family members a lot, which is quite fun.

And when you started working there, like, did anyone ever give you like a talk about secrecy and privacy?

Like what you were allowed to say about what you saw and what you weren't or like what questions you should answer and what you shouldn't?

Yeah, so there was a lot about that, right?

Because obviously you're working for this institution that a lot of people wouldn't know about.

So obviously I'm not going to sit here and give you like a walkthrough of exactly how many steps it takes to get from one place to one place and exactly what doors that you have to go through to go from one place to another place.

Obviously I can't do that.

I think also a lot of it was about like...

journalism and the media because the entrance we go in and out of was obviously known as being the entrance that people who work there will go out of and they said like people will see people will know that you work there and they don't care what you do or the fact that you just work in the shop but don't answer questions like if people want to come and ask you about stuff