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This kid swooped in, dropped off that electronic letter, and then zipped off to catch the Magic School Bus.
It’s always a little wild to me to look at pre-computer offices, especially to think how tedious some tasks would’ve been when done by hand on paper
Yup, but also remember: “tedious” = “relaxed pace”.
We make things less tedious to get more efficiency out of our time. But the asymptote of the efficiency curve is living death.
Well back then they got paid more money to create less shareholder value, so it was okay to be that slow. These days we produce so much more wealth for billionaires, and we have to hustle to do it
I mean, there is lot of tedium invented in the computer era as well, especially with paper-oriented digital workflow and WYSIWYG software.
I suspect the desk telephone must have done a lot more of the heavy lifting back in those days
I remember answering the stupidest questions about it.
I remember some dumb ass in a meeting was trying to sound smart, so instead of saying E-mail like a regular person he said electronical mail… That guy annoyed me a lot.
I miss those days. It was a lot of fun in some ways. One company rolled out their own listserv and told everyone it was fool proof. I signed it up to itself and it crashed when the hard drive got full. They had the messages in plaintext with nested sub directories. It locked that file system up better than a fork bomb. I guess in a way it was a fork bomb.
Got any fun examples?
What if I get someone’s email by mistake? How do I deliver it to them?
Will I get a huge bill from the post office for not attaching a stamp? This lady thought she was going to go to jail.
What if I need to send a notarized email?
These are remembered because the people were quite distressed and not really well balanced.
I wish I could have worked a day in the offices in the 1960s-70s. before all the technological changes.
