I remember typing pools...

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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  • Good thread!


    One of my first jobs was on a building site (2000), 17 years young. I was asked to fetch a long weight from the tool store. Being far too intelligent for that old joke the foreman and 4 others put me in a brick layers bath of wet cement and let me walk home in slowly stiffening clothes.


    I should of taken the long weight ; ) 

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  • Good thread!


    One of my first jobs was on a building site (2000), 17 years young. I was asked to fetch a long weight from the tool store. Being far too intelligent for that old joke the foreman and 4 others put me in a brick layers bath of wet cement and let me walk home in slowly stiffening clothes.


    I should of taken the long weight ; ) 

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