Flossie Crease started her working life at Burleigh's Printers in Bristol. She made the move to Wills because Burleigh's were moving to the outskirts of the city. Flossie’s experience of working in Burleigh's packing department proved a good transferable skill, as she started in the cigar-packing department at Wills.

"There's lots of different cigars, from a small cigar to a large Emperor cigar, so when you became proficient at one cigar, which took a long time, to do the amount they expected you to do, then you'd move on to another training school for another cigar. And then when you finished that, you'd go on to another training school. So I passed through a lot of training schools to become able to pack any cigar from a small cheroot or whiff to a large Emperor, which took a lot of training...You see, in a leaf, there's two sides to a leaf. Once you take the stem out the centre, there's a left and a right handed side...When we packed them, we'd never mix them together. They all had to go the same way. So all day we'd be on left handed cigars and the next day we might be on right handed cigars. But if one got stray or anything, you'd never put [it in], 'cos it would stand out like a sore thumb in amongst them, you know... and the colours, [there] used to be a lot of training with the colours. Because a leaf, there's 20 or 30 colours to a leaf. We used to sort them first...in their basic colours, that was red, brown and green...so as you opened a packet of cigars or sold them like that, they were all the same, near enough all the same colour, if we could possibly get it."