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Thread: Do your kids remember when
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11-20-2019, 06:18 AM #76
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11-20-2019, 06:29 AM #77
To the original question though. When I started out with a national accounting firm in 1988 we wore suits. period. Saturday was khakis & button downs. Sunday you'd wear jeans. Maybe about 10 PM on a weekday you'd loosen up the tie some. Last week an EY auditor was in my office in jeans and chucks.
Also from that timeframe, I remember thinking if you could watch TV in the car some kinda way, that would be the ultimate."Can't you see..."
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11-20-2019, 09:47 AM #78
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11-20-2019, 11:43 AM #79
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11-20-2019, 01:05 PM #80Registered User
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Before about 1992 everybody at IBM HAD to wear the suits, then head office proclaimed we were adopting business casual to fit in better with our clients, you know those PC guys with the laptops who wore cutoffs and played foosball in the office
SO the next day everybody came to work wearing the same suits they always wore for a number of reasons, it was the uniform and you could hide behind it, you were used to wearing the suit, a lot of guys had suits or T-shirts but nothing in-between and buying the business casual cost about the same as buying a cheap suit.
Everntualy guys wore out the old suits and business casual as we know it became the norm but it did not change overnightLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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11-20-2019, 05:47 PM #81
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11-20-2019, 06:42 PM #82Funky But Chic
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An early cellphone. big phone and big battery in a bag, usually with a shoulder strap. this was back when carphones were a thing but bag phones were portable.
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11-20-2019, 06:53 PM #83
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11-20-2019, 07:49 PM #84Registered User
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I didn't last very long at those jobs where you had to wear a tie. Not very long at all...
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11-20-2019, 07:59 PM #85
My dad had to wear a suit and a fedora to sell bras. I did it hatless and in a leisure suit with bell bottom pants.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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11-20-2019, 08:21 PM #86Registered User
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11-20-2019, 08:31 PM #87Registered User
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11-20-2019, 08:51 PM #88
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11-20-2019, 08:58 PM #89
My wife had a bag phone for a while. She needed it for on call. That thing was a brick.
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11-20-2019, 09:04 PM #90Funky But Chic
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It was pretty cool technology compared to no cell phones at all.
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11-20-2019, 09:11 PM #91
Well, I guess I was just trash living under a bridge.
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11-20-2019, 09:27 PM #92
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11-20-2019, 09:28 PM #93
Holeee shittta - are you kidding me? Did you live on-base, '74-'76 in Key West? That's damn near my story...Throwing out trash in the cul-de-sac's dumpster, and there's 2 big boxes of Playboys. Probably 8-10 years worth. Went and got my friend and after dark we spirited ALL of them to our fort in the mangrove bushes. The ensuing mold factor and clumpy, pulpy pages would begin to meld together. They prolly lasted a year or two.
You learn early there's 3 pictorials.
And the covers are classics now and when I see them it brings back such funny memories.
That's where I first saw how Kool skiing was.
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My wealthy Aunt/Uncle had a cordless TV remote in 1973?. Turned me into a couch potato.
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11-20-2019, 09:30 PM #94
Were there corded remotes?
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11-20-2019, 09:34 PM #95
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11-20-2019, 09:35 PM #96
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11-20-2019, 09:40 PM #97Funky But Chic
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Why are they watching a washing machine?
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11-20-2019, 09:55 PM #98
The bag phone was awesome... a full 3 watts of power vs. 1/2 watt of most handhelds, and that massive battery would last forever. Analog signal meant the call always went through. Might be a lot of static on the line, but even in bumfuck nowhere southern tier hill towns, your call would go through.
and with 5 lb swing weight, you could pummel the shit out of anyone within swingin' distance.... an excellent melee weapon.
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11-20-2019, 10:05 PM #99
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11-20-2019, 10:09 PM #100
My ex gf’s kids got to ride to and from the bus stop in rural NM sitting on the tailgate of my pickup truck. Probably some of the last kids to enjoy that small pleasure. That was 15-20 years ago in a really laissez-faire kinda place and people were getting weird about it then. Gotta be a total no-go nowadays.
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