A thread of old-fashioned office procedures no longer used

[The Large One]

1. Writing or typing a letter

2. Writing 'ultimo' or 'inst' when referring to the original letter (actually I still do that now and then)

Any more...?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Photocopying one's bum cheeks at the Christmas party.

In fact: having Christmas parties at the office, full stop.

 

[Gwylan]

Related to typing but wasn't using carbon paper such a faff?

 

[The Fifth Column]

Cheese rimming the bosses coffee mug.

 

[The Large One]

Re-typing a letter if there was a spelling mistake.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Getting out a floppy disk to back up your work.

 

[Icy Gull]

Re-typing a letter if there was a spelling mistake.

Only before tippex

 

[Icy Gull]

Sticking a stamp on a letter

 

[seagullwedgee]

tippex

filing

indenting paragraphs

rectangular thick wooden desks

switchboards

hiding the sausage in the stationery cupboard

 

[Icy Gull]

Having a receipt book

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

What were those amazing tube thingummys they used to have in big department stores where money was sent from the shop floor to the admin offices and paperwork vice versa. A bit like an intranet but made out of brass and glass. I vaguely remember seeing them in the Coop in London Road, Hanningtons and maybe Vokins.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Carbon paper.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Scratching tippex off the computer screen of the office PA.

 

[seagullwedgee]

those green string things with metal bits on the ends........

treasury tags, that's them.

 

[The Large One]

Remembering whether to put 'sincerely' or 'faithfully' at the end of the letter.

Not being allowed near the disk drives or computer screen with a cup of tea or coffee.

24" three-layered 50MB steel hard disks, the drive for which was just a bit smaller than a pinball table.

 

[Stoo82]

Good old fashion sexisum.

 

[strings]

those green string things with metal bits on the ends........

treasury tags, that's them.

I use these all the time... I have a box on my desk as we speak/type.

What were those amazing tube thingummys they used to have in big department stores where money was sent from the shop floor to the admin offices and paperwork vice versa. A bit like an intranet but made out of brass and glass. I vaguely remember seeing them in the Coop in London Road, Hanningtons and maybe Vokins.

They still have these in asda, Wolverhampton!

filing

We have someone who pretty much has the job of filing stuff... as an exam board, we have to keep paper records a lot longer than most.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Photocopying one's bum cheeks at the Christmas party.

In fact: having Christmas parties at the office, full stop.

Ours in on Wednesday in our canteen (or what used to be the canteen until they closed it) but agree that they are few and far between.

 

[Hiney]

Dictating letters on a dictaphone and slipping in a cheeky little sexual innuendo to the typist - then watching her as she does your tape.

Marvellous.

 

[surrey jim]

Sending cheques to pay bills etc.