Things you don't hear, see, do or say in the work place any more.

My boss has nick names for everyone and one of the lads is umjumsim from Sierra Leone
We did have a girl called Lydia working for us
She left after being nicknamed clamidiya.
So anything goes in our office.

 

Too right !!
5 year printing apprenticeship - over the pub most lunchtimes
The gaffer took great delight in catching me off guard with a painful dig in the ribs ...
"what`s that for ?" i`d ask ...
"that`s for when i can`t catch ya ..."

Happy days ....

 

Belt driven lathes , air raid siren to tell you you could go home lol. Tea urn left on all morning , the old lady that inherited her dads business arriving in her chauffer driven rover n coming round to say hello to us all in the office when she came in , "Hello How are you" biggest mistake i left the company 6weeks before she died , she left all the office staff 20 k each in 1978. Real drawings done on A0 elephant drawing boards. 3day week . Respect from other workers and the boss too.

 

Haha! And a disk the size of a suitcase that someone had to take home every night in case there was a fire!

 

Did you used to mix up your own medicines and make tablets? I remember watching my grandad do this many moons ago!

 

Not having to do bloody Risk and method statements !!

 

I spent some time working up on scaffolding and it was non-stop. Particulary young mums, they loved it! The winner by a clear margin to mother pushing a pram was " Youwannanotherone?". Happy days. Highly illegal nowadays apparently, what's the world coming to?

 

Artic rolls at birds eye when i worked their as a lad . The tuck machine that had the change in the cheese roll wraper.

 

I also remember in later years the first "floppy discs" that where the same size as 12 inch record inside the sleeve.

I must be a complete anorak as I also remember the Amstrad PCW9512 word processors that were only good for "typing" on. Black and green screen, no mouse, daisy wheel printer and it took an age to start up.

 

Don't knock old computers, someone found an Apple 1 in a recycling center and got $200,000 for it. I'm holding onto the Commodore 64 and hoping for the best

 

Just putting you through, one moment please...

 

I never made tablets - made ointments and mixtures. I have got a tablet maker kicking about somewhere

 

There was prob $199,999 cents found in it lol

 

Since I started up on my own six years ago, the main thing I don't see any more in the office is other people...

I used to work in a publishers in Wimbledon where the smoking room was just the kitchen as long as you opened the window. On the same subject - though not a work thing - at my barmitzvah party in 1985 my parents made sure that there was a glass full of Peter Stuyvesant ciggies on every table. I think they stopped short of having a sugar bowl full of bugle on each one...

First design studio I worked in still had a PMT machine in the corner. I always assumed it was called that as it only worked for three out of every four weeks.

Loading wax cartridges into the big colour printer was always fun. Well, not exactly fun, more excruciatingly boring.

 

@rickyrooo1 works there right now!

 

That was my mum's job - red hair and all - 50 years gone - RIP.

 

I worked in a printing place during the summer back in the 60s - spent every Friday afternoon melting down the old lead print and pouring it out into blocks to take back to the print works compositor- no health and safety - just fumes.

 

My mum used to work a punch tape machine for feeding info into the computer, again one of the massive room ones .