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Older folks, refresh my memory, what did we use to do at work to waste time before the internet

glenn1

glenn1

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I'm old enough to have been in the workplace before the internet took off, but somehow that time has faded into my mind like what people used to do for food before the microwave oven.......

What did we use to do at work to waste time before the internet came along?
 
Originally posted by: glenn1
I'm old enough to have been in the workplace before the internet took off, but somehow that time has faded into my mind like what people used to do for food before the microwave oven.......

What did we use to do at work to waste time before the internet came along?
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I don't know about the US, but when I was back in Bulgaria, I noticed that those without computers seemed to favour conversation, newspapers, smoking, sitting at the cafe and a bit of shopping.

As for microwaves, people used to eat good, properly heated food 🙂
 
Originally posted by: glenn1
I'm old enough to have been in the workplace before the internet took off, but somehow that time has faded into my mind like what people used to do for food before the microwave oven.......

What did we use to do at work to waste time before the internet came along?
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You're eleven, right?
 
Originally posted by: jadinolf
Originally posted by: glenn1
I'm old enough to have been in the workplace before the internet took off, but somehow that time has faded into my mind like what people used to do for food before the microwave oven.......

What did we use to do at work to waste time before the internet came along?
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You're eleven, right?
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When I was eleven, I worked in sweat shop for Walmart making 15 cents a week. We had no internet, if we wasted time we were lashed. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: glenn1
I'm old enough to have been in the workplace before the internet took off, but somehow that time has faded into my mind like what people used to do for food before the microwave oven.......

What did we use to do at work to waste time before the internet came along?
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Laboriously fixing typewriter errors with whiteout, gazing at the stunning new Studebaker in newspaper ads, furtively touching up the shine on your Oxfords with Kiwi brown in the men's room, shyly asking the office ubergeek if he'd come over that night to replace the failing vaccum tubes in your DuMont, dreaming about the all the money you'd soon save with the "too cheap to meter" electric power nuclear energy was about to bring, laughing at how bad that washed up B-movie dork Ronald Reagan was last night on General Electric Theatre, trying to get a peek at the office steno pool secretary's bare ankles, taking surreptitous surveillance notes on the obvious office Communist (he drove a Volvo and sometimes wore overly loud ties . . . TO WORK), and wondering whether it was time for a new pocket protector . . . or not.

 
Well, considering that it was impossible to do actual work before the introduction of computers, I'd wager...nothing. That's right, nothing. People would get dressed up, kiss the wife goodbye, drive to a place (didn't reall matter where), stand around in utter silence for 8 hours, and leave. So the question is moot, because people didn't do any work to take a break from. I mean, come on, the mere thought of accomplishing anything without a computer is just laughable!
 
At one place I worked at myself and a coworker would play wiffleball in the back o the building.
Fast pitch from aout 30 feet away and there was a fence that we had to hit the ball over to score.
After a while the ball cracked and we had to tape it up. It got pretty hard then and hurt when a pitch caught you.
 
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