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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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  • Any one remember Gestetner Stencil duplicting machines? - What a pain they were.


    In my first local authority we had a Chief Admin Officer who was a Major in the TA and had an office of his own with a huge leather topped desk, the rest of us were in an adjoining office with all desks lined up as at school facing his office door!   All senior managers were addressed as Mr or Mrs.


    When desk top computers arrived I remember one colleague placing the mouse on the screen and, moving it about, exclaiming "well this doesn't work".

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  • Any one remember Gestetner Stencil duplicting machines? - What a pain they were.


    In my first local authority we had a Chief Admin Officer who was a Major in the TA and had an office of his own with a huge leather topped desk, the rest of us were in an adjoining office with all desks lined up as at school facing his office door!   All senior managers were addressed as Mr or Mrs.


    When desk top computers arrived I remember one colleague placing the mouse on the screen and, moving it about, exclaiming "well this doesn't work".

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