For those who worked through the late 1990, what's one thing you're glad younger folks won't have to put up with?
I remember printing out hundreds of pages just to review a document and having to track changes by hand with a pen. The paper cuts alone were brutal. What other dinosaur era work habits are you happy died off?
As an auditor, I remember vouching totals on green bar reports by running the numbers on a ten key and stapling the adding machine tape to the green bar report in my work papers.
@bg I think it was called carbon paper to make carbon copies. There is also stencil - holes get cut when types on them and then one can make lots of copies using a stencil duplicating machine !
You all are making me feel old ...
Printing out documents, so you can fax the documents…and that was only 8 years ago ago.
30 years ago ago, received huge printouts from mainframe computer and we each tore pages and were assigned recon of dividends
sending inner office company correspondence through stuffing envelopes..pre email 😂
Paper procedures and directories. Paper everything. Dummy terminals.
We had a general customer service line that all of us were expected to take turns to answer. Now I don't even have a dedicated phone number.
Typing customer communication using two sheets of paper with an ink page (I can’t even remember what it was called) between so we would have a copy for the file and if you made a mistake you had to start over. It sure taught accuracy!
Calling into an 800 number with a pin to have a conference call and not having any idea who was actually on the call without taking attendance.
This might be pre-dinosaur era : Sorting punch cards after they were scattered on the floor ;o) Of course, you need a card sorter; even then you don't know if you got all of them right - especially if it is a COBOL program !!