At the end, Mr. Fibbs asks what the workers would rather make, and Wills answers, "Brandy balls".
Even though they are treated extremely well by the company, the workers are no longer happy, and this has negatively affected their work and production.
[4] Given the different backgrounds, audience members or readers could all take away their own different messages from the play; for example, a working class person may side with the workers in the play, and their hatred of the products, but someone in a higher socioeconomic status might see that the workers are given these great benefits and they are just causing trouble.
The sketch was originally performed on stage in the West End revue One to Another in July 1959.
[8] The Royal National Theatre staged the piece as part of an evening of Pinter's Sketches, on 8 February 2002.
[9] In The Guardian, Michael Billington wrote "Much the funniest is Trouble in the Works in which Patrick Marber's obdurate foreman achieves ascendancy over Corin Redgrave's quivering employer by his linguistic expertise in naming mechanical parts: by the end Marber is smugly behind the boss's desk having achieved a classic Pinter power-reversal.