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I remember typing pools...

Steve Bridger

I remember my first day at work. The summer of 1981. County Hall. The smell of polished corridors and trolleys laden three-feet high with leaver arch files and buff folders. I opened a door and there it was: The Typing Pool. Page 3 of The Sun were always plastered on the walls of the printing unit whenever I was asked to make errands. We still had a few discussion threads on that topic in the early days here - in 2004!


And I've seen Made in Dagenham, the movie!


I only mention this as the CIPD published a report called Work Audit today, a fascinating look at how the world of work has changed
in Britain since 1952.


I thought we could share our own compelling vignettes of social history comparing changes in the way we work.


What do you reckon?


Steve

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  • I too remember the manual typewriter, carbon paper.....and never mind the luxury of tippex and tippex paper....we had to use special typewriter erasers.  You certainly had to remember to put extra paper between your carbon paper and the paper underneath if you wanted to make a correction.

    The day I left secretarial college was the day they got their first word processor....and it was a mammoth thing, with keyboard attached to the screen, but it was wonderful.  We only had a short demonstration, no time to use it.

    Then in the world of work, yes the golf ball typewriter, then the daisy wheel.....then a sort of typewriter *** basic word processor, telexes sent to the telex room.  And then things got better.....no more carbon copies - photocopies instead, computers, emails, internet. No more shorthand......peeps responsible for their own correspondence (I still cringe when I see a letter incorrectly set out).   Ah the youth of today....they have it sooooo easy :)

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  • I too remember the manual typewriter, carbon paper.....and never mind the luxury of tippex and tippex paper....we had to use special typewriter erasers.  You certainly had to remember to put extra paper between your carbon paper and the paper underneath if you wanted to make a correction.

    The day I left secretarial college was the day they got their first word processor....and it was a mammoth thing, with keyboard attached to the screen, but it was wonderful.  We only had a short demonstration, no time to use it.

    Then in the world of work, yes the golf ball typewriter, then the daisy wheel.....then a sort of typewriter *** basic word processor, telexes sent to the telex room.  And then things got better.....no more carbon copies - photocopies instead, computers, emails, internet. No more shorthand......peeps responsible for their own correspondence (I still cringe when I see a letter incorrectly set out).   Ah the youth of today....they have it sooooo easy :)

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