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What Work was Like in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Metallicman ^ | June 2018 | editorial staff

Posted on 07/13/2018 7:45:15 PM PDT by vannrox

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To: vannrox

Some points from the article that stood out:

“Busybodies typically run the HR groups in large corporations.

Americans are cheated out of vacation time, compared to the rest of the civilized world.

Workers used to have fun together.

People used to say Merry Christmas to each other during Christmastime.

......
From the Q & A section:

Q: Is it ok to say “Merry Chrismas” at work?

A: Oh my yes. Everyone here in China says “Merry Christmas”, and it’s not even a Christian nation.

If you are taken aside by HR and told not to express yourself, report that HR manager to the CEO of the company. They are way beyond their mandate.”


41 posted on 07/13/2018 10:53:59 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: dfwgator

Defective cans were quite a danger in St. Louis, Missouri.

I had to escape in a car that only had rims mounted...


42 posted on 07/13/2018 11:22:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: vannrox
Lengthy but quite interesting article!   (I remember those good old days, when a heavy tan phone just stayed there on your desk all day!)   Work-related music was a bit different back then too!   Here's a brief sample of some of those work-related songs from way back...

 
Off-Site Office Party - "Little Bits 'n Pieces" - Jim Stafford
(Maybe just past the 70's a bit, but it sounds like the 70's!)
Finding A Job - "Get A Job" - The Silhouettes
(Ok - it was a new "oldie" in the 60's!)
Working A Job - "Working In The Coal Mine" - Lee Dorsey
Leaving A Job - "Take This Job And Shove It" - Johnny Paycheck
Smoking - "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" - Tex Williams
(A little before the 60's, but it seemed to fit!  Desktop ash trays were
often supplied in a company's own office supplies room back then!)

43 posted on 07/14/2018 12:04:44 AM PDT by Songcraft
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To: vannrox

bmp


44 posted on 07/14/2018 12:33:26 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: vannrox

The article is an exercise in over-generalization.

And I don’t know a single restaurant that charges $8 for a cup of coffee.


45 posted on 07/14/2018 12:46:18 AM PDT by mlo
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To: Davy Crocket

my first job as a RN paid $3.75/ for night shift....my coworker, who was a new Lpn, lamented those working at Frito Lay...they got paid $5/hr...


46 posted on 07/14/2018 1:15:19 AM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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To: Drew68

IS that real?


47 posted on 07/14/2018 1:53:03 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: tflabo
I did that too all while sucking in leaded gas fumes. Those wee the days!


48 posted on 07/14/2018 1:54:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: doorgunner69
I suppose this is why tech and (I hope not) aerospace companies have to go offshore to find anyone that can do engineering work at the chump wages we pay..

Fixed it.

49 posted on 07/14/2018 2:03:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: vannrox

I worked for an outfit out of Lowell, MA back in ‘64 knocking down old mill buildings around N.E. Imagine the chit-fit today’s wussies would have watching men ride the wrecking ball down five or six stories @ lunch time and back up after a sandwich and a few “pops”. No saftety belts, no OSHA. Young, dumb and full of you know what... good times.


50 posted on 07/14/2018 2:29:08 AM PDT by metesky (My investment program is holding steady @ $0.05 cents a can.)
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To: mlo

@mlo

You don’t get out much, do you? Starbucks charges near $8 in selected areas outside of the states.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/how-much-is-starbucks-coffee-766065

Not that it matters much. But even the $5 cup of coffee in the states is far higher than the 25 cent cup of coffee that I paid for when I was working.


51 posted on 07/14/2018 2:44:12 AM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: dfwgator

“Mad Men” definitely was true to life then.

Offices were filled with cigarette smoke. We had a bottle of Everclear in a file cabinet to add to juice for impromptu parties. Happy Hour Fridays at the Blue Fox. Even the most staunchly political views on both sides were discussed and respected, with no animosity. Major flirting — including taking that to its “logical conclusion”. Pretty wild Christmas parties, with liquor arriving in the back of a pickup truck. (The organization attorney put an end to that following an accident.) Worked hard and played hard. Lots of overlap between work and social relationships. We’d work together eight hours a day, then party at the lake on weekends, and take cruises together for vacation.

Carbon paper. Making/changing flight reservations by phone. 10-key adding machines. Dressing well and appropriately. No Google, Excel, or even basic word processing yet.


52 posted on 07/14/2018 2:48:05 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: Zeneta

Yep - I remember getting a breakfast steak and eggs for under $2 and the recommended tip was 10%...


53 posted on 07/14/2018 4:28:29 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: vannrox

I’m just barely old enough to recall the annoyance and even vague sense of panic at having “lost two days” due to Federal Express. This was repeated again not too many years later, what was left of the lag after FedEx was taken away by the fax machine. This was industry-specific in the graphics industry, just before Macs took over that world and “high tech” was a Varityper typesetting machine that used photo paper and developing chemicals. This was hung to dry or if you were in a rush some had a dryer. The text was then laboriously cut out with an exacto knife, run through a hot wax machine to wax the backside, then pasted down on the layout board. Practically everything printed on a printing press was done in this manner. In some ways the craftsmanship has suffered, the art of typesetting certainly has now that any schlub can bang it out with no clue of kerning or line spacing. In other ways there are graphical elements used routinely now that could only be dreamed of back then, possibly created very expensively by hiring an airbrush artist.


54 posted on 07/14/2018 4:52:15 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

When I was an engineering manager, I kept my slide rule (Post Versalog) and CRC Math Tables on my back desk. One of my young engineers saw them, asked what they were, and when I told him, he sneered at me and said, “Oh, yeah? Just what did you do with them?”

I told him, “We put a man on the moon. What have you done with your PC?”

He walked out of my office with his head bowed and his mouth shut.


55 posted on 07/14/2018 5:32:06 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (The Democrats in California want another civil war over cheap labor!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“beautiful women everywhere you look”

Now they dress, act, and talk like truckers.


56 posted on 07/14/2018 6:01:05 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: alexander_busek

Well, I didn’t forget that they had to engage in state sponsored activity, I just didn’t really count that as anything other than being at work!


57 posted on 07/14/2018 6:03:07 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: alexander_busek

I know all that and thought long and hard about it, but the reality is, even those young people aren’t going out and socializing together after work today.


58 posted on 07/14/2018 6:06:05 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: vannrox

People smoked at their desks. When I was 16 I had a job where my boss smoked. I was so glad to be moved to where fuel was stored so smoking was banned.


59 posted on 07/14/2018 6:06:10 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Redleg Duke

LOL! Sweet. Great rejoinder.

Also “Machinery’s Handbook”! And the “Steam” book from Babcock & Wilcox.


60 posted on 07/14/2018 6:14:32 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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