Old School Offices/Jobs

[CaptainBlowhole]

I'd like to see some pictures of this, but there are some people where I work that tell me about how things used to be in my company like in the early 70's and before where people smoked at their desks and drabk during lunch, and smacked secretaries in the ass as they walked by, etc.
I try and imagine what it must be like to see someone blowing smoke rings under a haze of smoke at their desk, piles of stubbed out butts in ashtrays. Does anyone remember those times? I never saw it. I do remember being a kid and shopping with my mom in a supermarket and seeing people smoking in the store and squashed out cigarettes on the floor.

[sailor]

People still drink during lunch.

[A.J.]

I'd like to see some pictures of this, but there are some people where I work that tell me about how things used to be in my company like in the early 70's and before where people smoked at their desks and drabk during lunch, and smacked secretaries in the ass as they walked by, etc.
I try and imagine what it must be like to see someone blowing smoke rings under a haze of smoke at their desk, piles of stubbed out butts in ashtrays. Does anyone remember those times? I never saw it. I do remember being a kid and shopping with my mom in a supermarket and seeing people smoking in the store and squashed out cigarettes on the floor.

They still do that in the Middle East.

And on Mad Men.

[SatCam]

I still slap asses

[CaptainBlowhole]

Men don't count.

[Hottub]

I still slap asses

With your bag.:smoke:

[realmenhatelife]

My dad tells me he likes the show Mad Men because it reminds him of what it was like to work in the railroad industry in the late 70s and 80s. He said the old coots who were in charge would get shitfaced every lunch and come back and fire guys and stuff, and he'd always have to tell guys to chill out and just show up for work the next day because they weren't really fired.

[CaptainBlowhole]

I heard stories of bosses fucking their secretaries out in their cars in the parking lot. The odd thing is the way people have evolved and adapted because lots of these guys still work there now. I wonder how that transition occurred.

[goreds2]

I remember my sister taking SHORT HAND class in the ealry 1980's. I wonder if it is still used in offices. :blink:

[dino_electropolis]

Damn, smoking at desks, drinks at lunch and ass slappin? How did it all go so wrong?

[angrymissy]

I think I was around 19 when I interviewed for this job... so it was maybe 1998? Anyway, when I entered the conference room and sat down, they had a crystal ashtray on the table and the person interviewing me was smoking. He said everyone in the office could smoke at their desks. It was the most bizarre thing I ever saw. Then a woman interviewed me and said "Melissa, that's a beautiful name, it's what I named my daughter... BEFORE GOD TOOK HER AWAY FROM ME".

It was seriously the most bizarre place I ever saw. I couldn't beleive they were smoking at their desks, but I guess it was still happening even in the late 90's.

[Furtherman]

"Melissa, that's a beautiful name, it's what I named my daughter... BEFORE GOD TOOK HER AWAY FROM ME".

That's an awkward, funny movie moment right there.

[angrymissy]

That's an awkward, funny movie moment right there.

I was floored. Then they took me into a room filled with typewriters. Instead of computers, everyone used electric typewriters. Then the dead baby lady told me "I HOPE YOU CAN DEAL WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE BITCHES FOR NO REASON, RIGHT MARE" and threw a nasty glare at another woman, who smirked at her and walked off.

The company did something with Lloyds of London relating to KIDNAPPING INSURANCE for rich people. Sometimes I wish I took the job just to know how fucking crazy those people were.

[jennysmurf]

My Mom worked for a newspaper in the late 70's-early 80's. They could smoke at their desks, and the printer guys had nudie pictures hanging up all around their stations. That is, until a school group went though on a tour and when asked what their favorite part of the tour was, said, "The naked lady pictures." Classic.:thumbup:

[hedges]

What about elevator operators? You don't see them anymore.

[MagillaGorillaz]

My Mom worked for a newspaper in the late 70's-early 80's. They could smoke at their desks, and the printer guys had nudie pictures hanging up all around their stations. That is, until a school group went though on a tour and when asked what their favorite part of the tour was, said, "The naked lady pictures." Classic.:thumbup:

It took me a few seconds to visualize 70's and 80's nudie pictures. My mind was on current pinup's

[PapaBear]

Egg lady. When I was a kid, there was a lady who would come around every week and deliver fresh eggs. I never saw a milk man, though.

[Joe Pietaro]

Working at Key Food as a teenager in the early and mid-80s, everyone smoked in the store. Kids stocking shelves, shoppers, the cold cut counter guy while he was cutting meat. Getting loaded in there was a staple, too.

Later on when I worked in 1 WTC, there was a lot more shit going on than just smoking and drinking in the office.

[Zorro]

Punchcard Machines...

[JimBeam]

I work for a Top 50 company and I've been told that only 20 years ago they were still using typewriters and still closed their books, which includes international sales, manually.

I worked for Lillian Vernon for a while in college ( in the 90's ) and they used to keep all of their inventory on file cards. We had to make sure to put them in the fireproof safe every night before we left. They'd also put them in the computer but that was cosidered the backup as opposed to the paper copy being the backup.