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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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  • When our typing pool got computers for the first time in the early 90's I remember -


    used to using footpedals, one of the ladies telling me her mouse was too short to reach the floor;


    having to stop someone painting their screen with snowpake;


    another person telling me the cursor was going in the wrong direction (because she had positioned the mouse back to front);


    when I asked another to point at a place on the screen with her mouse, she lifted it off the desk and pointed it at the screen.


    So much fun and laughs looking back...


     

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  • When our typing pool got computers for the first time in the early 90's I remember -


    used to using footpedals, one of the ladies telling me her mouse was too short to reach the floor;


    having to stop someone painting their screen with snowpake;


    another person telling me the cursor was going in the wrong direction (because she had positioned the mouse back to front);


    when I asked another to point at a place on the screen with her mouse, she lifted it off the desk and pointed it at the screen.


    So much fun and laughs looking back...


     

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