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What Work was Like in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Metallicman ^ | June 2018 | editorial staff

Posted on 07/13/2018 7:45:15 PM PDT by vannrox

Today, Americans have taken so much for granted. We look at our life and think that it is as it has always been. Indeed, it is assumed that the way things are today have always been that way. Yet, the simple and plain truth is that America has changed. Over the last few decades there has been tremendous changes at all levels of American society and culture.

For instance, it is a recent phenomenon that restaurants can charge $8 for a cup of coffee. Or, that we have to take a urine sample to get employed. Casual day on Friday, or having a “co-pay” on your medical insurance was unheard of just a few decades ago.

Let’s take a moment to reflect on our shared past. Let’s look at what it was like to work for a company in the 1960’s. Just because things have changed does not mean that they have changed for the better.

"All federal workers will be ordered to spend 75 percent of their time on government work"

-President Donald Trump's (R) "cruel" executive order demanding that Federal Workers must actually work in order to get paid. If they do not work the bare minimum, they can be fired.

Today

Mr. Waturi: But can he do the job. I know he can get the job but can he DO the job? I'm NOT arguing that with you. I'm not arguing that with YOU. I'm not ARGUING that with you. I'm not ARGUING that with you Harry! Harry... Harry... Yeah Harry... but can he DO the job. I know he can GET the job but can he do the job?

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To: Windflier
It's the fact that, even adjusting for inflation, those jobs don't pay nearly as well as they once did. Why? Illegal aliens in the workforce have driven down the cost of labor because they're simply willing to do the same job for less than a legal American citizen CAN do them.

First, it was nearly doubling the workforce within 2 decades, by the NOW gang convincing women that staying at home to raise children was somehow a "raw deal". THEN we started adding millions more from poorer nations... AND started allowing government to finance everything, which always causes prices to skyrocket (tuition, health insurance, etc).

21 posted on 07/13/2018 8:35:55 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: rlmorel

People have no privacy. It’s the comms.

Trust in America is crap.

I was a dishwasher and we played nerf-ball on saturday night in the PL of the western steer. good times


22 posted on 07/13/2018 8:41:14 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: D_Idaho
My father was an electrical contractor in the 1960's to the 1980's, and never sat for one minute at a desk, in an office, working for a autonomous company, or a corporation.
23 posted on 07/13/2018 8:58:56 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: tflabo

[[If oil was needed we had the metal quarts stacked on the island and we would puncture the spout into the cans and pour.]]

Worked in a gas station in the 70’s-early 80’s they were still using those cans then- We’ve still a few oil spouts-


24 posted on 07/13/2018 9:03:21 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: vannrox; grey_whiskers; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ...
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Check out article.

Thanks, grey_whiskers.

25 posted on 07/13/2018 9:22:06 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: eyedigress

Indeed. No privacy, and that probably has as much to do with it as anything.

In years past, I remember going to some pretty wild corporate parties, but with ubiquitous video recording, nearly anyone from those years past would today be a candidate for 15 minutes of fame...unwanted fame.


26 posted on 07/13/2018 9:28:42 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Windflier

I remember going with my father to Sears to buy paint to paint the barn. The man in the paint center in Sears KNEW paint. He had sold paint at Sears for over 20 years and Sears had trainee him and sent him to the paint manufacturers. So he knew what type of paint worked best for every situation. And back then, Sears VALUED salesmen like that.

Today, they are disposable minimum wage workers who neither know nor care about the customer. Profits and ONLY short term profits are all that matters.


27 posted on 07/13/2018 9:29:39 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Deaf Smith

My aunt used to live next to Arlington Stadium. I stayed with her one summer in the ‘80s. My cousins and I used to hang out on the stadium steps until the 7th inning, then we could get in for free.


28 posted on 07/13/2018 9:32:08 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
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To: vannrox

Ping for later read.


29 posted on 07/13/2018 9:36:06 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: vannrox

Your wore a jacket and tie, or a dress/skirt, and actually did something to make society go.

No one asked about your socio-political beliefs, and nobody gave a sh*t. You were there for the company, not your personal psychic healing or to cater to society’s pet foibles.


30 posted on 07/13/2018 10:00:13 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Teacher317
Add to that revolving consumer credit (I've seen 72-month car loans; after World War 2, some home mortgages were 84 months).

Add to that generous cash and prizes for bored women divorcing their husband in the vain hope of reliving their slutty 20s, and generous welfare as a generational choice for kids getting pregnant at 16.

All inflationary (money going into the system but no product or service coming out).

31 posted on 07/13/2018 10:25:33 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: vannrox

When I started working in the 1965 I got paid $1.25 an hour.


32 posted on 07/13/2018 10:29:20 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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To: rlmorel
I haven’t seen people congregate after work for decades now. People just cut it off and go home.

Had a conversation on this topic with a long-term coworker just yesterday. He and I are both pushing 60.

He was reminiscing about the comraderie and bonhomie he enjoyed with his coworkers in the 1970s. After the factory whistle blew, he and his buddies would sit right down on the factory floor and open a keg.

What he fails to appreciate is that:

1) He and those coworkers are no longer in their teens. They are no longer on the look-out for hook-ups, no longer seeking a "place in life," no longer still enjoying the first rush of young adulthood (freedom, money, but no responsibilities like kids and mortgages). Instead, they have found their "places in life." They are no longer boarding in some crowded dorm, squalid bachelor flat, or living in Mama's basement. They have had decades to set themselves up in comfortable, nicely decorated, well-furnished homes - with a wife, children, and maybe even grandchildren. Thus, they have better things to do than to "hang out" with their drinking buddies.

2. They are older. When you are in your late teens / early 20s, your personality is still only half-formed. Nothing is completely "baked in." The personality differences between individuals is thus less noticeable. And youths are so callow, they are less judgemental about their peers. "Wow, Fred's girlfriend just got an abortion. I guess I'm cool with that." After after reaching true adulthood and acquiring more maturity can one properly reflect upon such things - and recognize moral faults.

3. Technology (computers, the Internet, DVDs, Netflix, cell phones, etc.). Sitting on a dusty factory floor throwing back some "brews" with some random strangers one just happens to work with simply doesn't compare with sharing one's thoughts with the select few like-minded individuals one has found amongst the millions in the Internet. If such things hadn't been invented, most people would probably still be spending their evenings in sewing circles, Bible study groups, bowling teams, etc.

Regards,

33 posted on 07/13/2018 10:30:33 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Drew68
"Proficient in the digital and social media..."

Reminds me of a hilarious skit of some airhead millennial being interviewed for a job.

I suppose this is why tech and (I hope not) aerospace companies have to go offshore to find anyone that can do engineering work.

34 posted on 07/13/2018 10:32:27 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: Night Hides Not
I loved the "benefit" of a "positive office culture"

Read: "Culturally diverse, with social justice being a common connection between us"

35 posted on 07/13/2018 10:35:38 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
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To: rlmorel
It kind of reminds me in a way of Orwell’s “1984” where people left work and immediately went back to their flat. To watch their Telescreen.

You're remembering Orwell incorrectly.

Aside from strictly regimented 15-minute exercise programs in the morning and endless, boring propaganda broadcasts about the latest "victories" on distant fronts that may have been totally faked, the telescreens provided no engaging "entertainment" - nothing that people with a shred of individuality, insight, or humanity would watch unless they were forced.

The main function of the telescreens was not to be watched, but rather to monitor the populace.

Regards,

36 posted on 07/13/2018 10:35:50 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: rlmorel

Social media has changed everything. Now anything you say or do can be blasted around the globe.

Look what happened to the CEO of Papa Johns.


37 posted on 07/13/2018 10:38:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: alexander_busek

Remember the old Yakov Smirnoff joke, “In Russia, Television Watches You”.

It ain’t just Russia, anymore.


38 posted on 07/13/2018 10:42:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: vannrox

39 posted on 07/13/2018 10:43:47 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: tflabo
If oil was needed we had the metal quarts stacked on the island and we would puncture the spout into the cans and pour. Don’t find that anymore.



Well, certainly not since....



"He Hates These Cans!"

40 posted on 07/13/2018 10:45:18 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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