invergowrie arab Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 On 17/02/2024 at 08:42, ICTChris said: Thanks feel extremely old now. I don't understand what people in office jobs were doing before the Internet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 1 minute ago, invergowrie arab said: I don't understand what people in office jobs were doing before the Internet. It was much more challenging. There was phone services, like dial a disc and some football clubs had a phone news service. You had to time looking out the window carefully. Walk about talking to your pals, pretending to look for files. Take a union position and either sleep in the union room or go to the pub. My mates used to come to the public counter and demand interviews with me and we'd have a few cans in a private interview room. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 It once took me a week to get a plane ticket from Dundee to London in work. Spoiler And by once, I mean 2 weeks ago due to useless admin and a completely incompetent travel agent the work uses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 On 17/02/2024 at 12:02, Sergeant Wilson said: Only if you write in the Record or the Sun. Usually followed by ‘sensationally blasted’. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 I presume we're all lying to the youngsters about how things were back before the internet, yes? Seems to be one of the privileges of getting old: testing to see if kids are still as gullible as we were. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 7 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: I don't understand what people in office jobs were doing before the Internet. We used to have a device in the office called "message switching". First person in would turn it on, and a load of printed messages came out from the other 30 offices round the country - was very easy for unscrupulous and lazy employees just to chuck them straight in the bin ! When I started, we did have computer terminals - one on every floor - but it was just data input and there were computer operators in the basement that "ran" big tapes onto the mainframe every night. If I explain this stuff to my son, he thinks it is stone age stuff. I have to say, skiving down to the pub was a hell of a lot easier too, as we had wee plastic punch cards and used to send one guy back up to "key us all back in". Great days.................... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 My first ever job was on a building site and we had an old boy from Dunfermline called Jordy who was about 70 and when he wasn't on site reekin' of whiskey, he was in the pub shovelling it down his throat. Looking back now, 20 years on it was quite scary he got away with it and boys weren't trying to get him help. Friday dinner times we all used to scoop 4 pint in an hour then go back to site. Must have been mayhem in the 60s etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bennett Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 TIE Fighter plummeting towards earth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ICTChris Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Another example of the old old tale - dad walks out on family to pursue breakdancing, daughter makes funny TikTok dad responds and then the daughter double milkshake ducks him. How many times have we seen this story? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 3 hours ago, ICTChris said: Another example of the old old tale - dad walks out on family to pursue breakdancing, daughter makes funny TikTok dad responds and then the daughter double milkshake ducks him. How many times have we seen this story? I think he left because he could see how irritating she would be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 5 hours ago, ICTChris said: Another example of the old old tale - dad walks out on family to pursue breakdancing, daughter makes funny TikTok dad responds and then the daughter double milkshake ducks him. How many times have we seen this story? He seems an absolute wrong un. Even with his video, rather than apologise or explain why he was absent he shoehorns in his shite dance moves. You can see where his priorities are. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Dad's been a lifelong culture warrior when he's not dad dancing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted February 20 Share Posted February 20 Look i think there comes a time in every fathers life where a cross roads of either staying and doing the dad thing or completely abandoning your kids to compete in the underground breakdance circuit will arise. I dont blame this guy. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halbeath Raith Rover Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buchan30 Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 (edited) 5 hours ago, Halbeath Raith Rover said: After doing this, my initial criticism of his comments may have been a tad hypocritical. I lost 12-0 to Partick and fought Gordon Ramsay and the Janny. Other than that, sweet as. Edited February 21 by buchan30 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Thread really gets going about ten tweets in 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bennett Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 11/08/2023 at 18:39, stimpy said: Reports are that 8 officers were involved and the usual suspects have shared the shit outa the pic of that one female police officer. Her actions may well lead to a dismissal for gross misconduct and she would lose everything and that's how the law should work. This trial by social media professional outrage accounts boils my piss and as I said once they've destroyed her completely the sharks move on looking for fresh meat. West Yorkshire Police has been ordered to apologise to a 16-year-old girl after footage of her arrest went viral with claims she said an officer 'looked like her lesbian nana'. Police watchdogs ruled the West Yorkshire Police (WYP) must write a letter of apology to the girl after an officer used 'inappropriate language' during the arrest which occurred in the early hours of Monday, August 7, last year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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