Jim Stoker was a drinking buddy of Stan Ogden who, together with his friend, gave Jerry Booth a hard time in the Rovers due to the likelihood of Stan being sacked from the Builder's Yard to make room for Jerry. Looking elsewhere for work, Jerry made enquiries with Alf Roberts, who offered to look up Christmas temping work at the Post Office and also who had council contracts that could prove useful. Throughout their conversation, Jim made digs at Jerry, prompted by a stirring Stan, trying to get a rise out of him by calling him a layabout and labelling his cleaning at 9 Coronation Street "woman's work", and even knocking Alf for offering Jerry "supplementary benefits from t'council". Jerry kept his cool, acknowledging Jim only to tell him to wait his turn when he tried to skip him at the b