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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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    My first job was with the Inland Revenue in 1972 for £10 per week. We got told to stop talking unless it was about work by our supervisor.

    Moved to IBM in 1978 where at my first review my manager asked me my long term aspirations. I told him I'd like to work in Personnel. "You'll never get a job there", he told me. Maybe I should have listened but a year later I had a new manager who had worked in Personnel. At my review he asked for my long term aspirations with the company. "To work in Quality", I said. "Never thought about working in Personnel? I think you would be good at it", he replied. So I ended up working in HR.

    I remember reading an announcement at work about the invention of email and thinking wow, science fiction come to life. 

    We used to get away from work at 15.06 on a Friday. Not 15.05 or 15.10 but 15.06. Then someone invented the long hours culture and it was treason to leave before 18.08. ;-)  

     

     

     

     

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    My first job was with the Inland Revenue in 1972 for £10 per week. We got told to stop talking unless it was about work by our supervisor.

    Moved to IBM in 1978 where at my first review my manager asked me my long term aspirations. I told him I'd like to work in Personnel. "You'll never get a job there", he told me. Maybe I should have listened but a year later I had a new manager who had worked in Personnel. At my review he asked for my long term aspirations with the company. "To work in Quality", I said. "Never thought about working in Personnel? I think you would be good at it", he replied. So I ended up working in HR.

    I remember reading an announcement at work about the invention of email and thinking wow, science fiction come to life. 

    We used to get away from work at 15.06 on a Friday. Not 15.05 or 15.10 but 15.06. Then someone invented the long hours culture and it was treason to leave before 18.08. ;-)  

     

     

     

     

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