Office Etiquette (1950)
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2012
- Do's and don'ts film portraying ways in which office etiquette contributes to success in office relationships. Follows a young woman who is seeking her first secretarial job and shows examples of good (and hilariously bad) on-the-job behavior.
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"I learned to mind my own business"
Seriously lacking that in 2019.
For real... I’ve seen people fired for gossip.
@@frenne_dilley "Silence is violence!!!"
This is very true
you are there to work --- yes? so get back to work damnit......or i'll find someone who will.
Many do in 2021
This film is pretty close to my first job interview and experience in 1971. Yes, it was that orderly, direct and a simple process to get a secretarial or clerk/typist position. I had answered an ad through the New York Times and applied to an insurance company, right out of high school. I had worked part-time since I was 14. I interviewed the first day and later that week I received a phone call that I got the job. The company had a two week training program. The benefits were available after 3 months probation. Companies want loyalty and employment agencies want top candidates. If people seeking work today were treated as well as I was throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, getting a job would be so different. It seems after the 1980s the entire process and concept of employment changed, not always to the employee's benefit.
You're right. I didn't start working part time until the 80s but things had really gone downhill by then.
Why are these etiquette films of the fifties so criticized? 99% of them make perfect sense.
Socialism.
People seem to think following rules is "fascist" these days.
LOL
Alan Atwood because the etiquette back then was so rigid and repressed you as a real person. And the 1950’s was the most fake decade in history when it came to white middle-class people living the American Dream. They lived it with ease while blacks, Hispanics, and Asians always had to deal with some form of discrimination
@@girlygirl9866 Little Trouble in Big China
most of them are with good intentions amd lessons, but if you watch enough of them they do seem to be a little propagandize so it's important to take them with a little grain of salt.
@@girlygirl9866 What country do you live in? Because America has always been a country of immigrants, and before that it was a country of Native Americans, none of whom were white. Racism won’t help us.
Lmao back then slacking off at work meant reading a newspaper on the sly.
Thomas Hayward and today, it’s sneaking your phone into the bathroom 😂
That book he was using to hide the sports section was called a spreadsheet (at 8:00)!
@coffeeinthemorning You had a bath in the office?
GeorgeActon
I recognize that too, spread sheet or worksheet. He was probably the Staff Accountant
What no catching a buzz at work
“I believe your coat is in the other office” polite way of saying get the heck out of my office.
Key word polite.
lol that's exactly what I thought!
Or he might know that excited people are more likely to be forgetful, and wanted to graciously remind her not to forget it.
But she got the job.
I'd agree with Sarah Crews' interpretation. Had he said, "I'll see you first thing on Monday. Don't forget, your coat is in the outer office," would have been a case of politely reminding her where her coat was & not to forget it.
To be fair, there are times when I find that some material from the middle of the 20th century seems quite rude.
And then it may be that what is rude to Australian ears is acceptable to US ears & vice versa.
"You know you shouldn't do that Jimmy"
"Du'wahhhh?"
10:11
Every office has a Jimmy!
That was adorable.
Jimmy hears that on all his dates, too!
🤣🤣🤣
She closes the folder, scolds him then hands it to him so he can slink off and read it in private. That's how you get along with co-workers!
The reading the paper under his work is the original having FB open underneath your work program.
M Hammer we sneak off with our phones now!
And old enough to know better!
Mike Peterson so true, wonder what people are going to do in another 40 yrs. sneaking off to do something? It’s 10/2019. That will be 2059 and I’ll be 97! If I’m still alive and my daughter will be 55! Damn!
@@Sorvea Sneak off? Shiiiiieeeeet. I just keep a second tab open on my browser at work, lol.
@@teresamance8381 People will be multitasking VR windows. We won't even be looking at each other in real life anymore.
Everyone was so polite and considerate. I wish things were still like that today.
You and I both!
People 50 years from now are going to watch nice fake type propaganda movies made in 2019 and be like "people were so nice and considerate back then. I wish it was still like that today!"
DOG WHISTLE ALERT!! WEEE OOOO WEEE OOOO!
Up yours.
I came from this era. I really miss the days when I could say a remark about a woman w/o the femanazis getting all offended. I miss the days when all the other department heads would chase the young secretaries around the office and played grabass w/o the HR department getting in our business.
I was amazed at a lady I had met a few years ago. She lied about her age and got hired at Westinghouse during WWII. She hadn't graduated and was put into the secretarial pool. When the plant closed 45 years later, she was the one of the last 5 still working.
Back then you could get away with stuff like that. No databases or google background checks at the tip of your finger. You could commit fraud in one state and move to the next and no one would be the wiser. Forge checks, prescriptions. They took all the fun away lol.
Amazing! 😀
It is also further proof that degrees don't always produce the ideal candidate for the position.
@@78dawnwest It's who you know, always has been. I have a bachelor's degree and I work with guys who make 4x what I make because they are friends with the right people and they kiss the right asses.
@@78dawnwest (Those guys barely graduated high school)
I just love her outfit on the first day...
It's interesting to know that even back then without the internet and smartphones, people still found ways to screw around at work. Although if Joan's manager walked up behind her, it'd be difficult for her to hide her letter to 'Johnny darling'! Not quite the same as quickly clicking to a different screen.
I'd love to see a workplace that completely follows all these office etiquette rules..it's quite rare today.
fembotprincess1 it was rare then too
“Quite rare?” This has never happened. It’s a fantasy.
@@reginarodriguez-martin4928 It's an ideal.
Or mature bosses who don’t make you’re life a living hell based on their every fleeting emotion 🤦♀️
This video is showing how to behave properly to be successful. Even here it shows people furtively trying to skirt the rules and goof off so it is showing what not to do also. My mom's first office job was in the 50s and there were two female bats (probably karens in today's lingo) who were more full of drama than a town playhouse. They almost literally drove her out of there. Her next job was where she met my dad, but it wasn't a stiff, straight office pictured here. They had fun on the job but also took care of business. This video implies that all of the fun is outside of work which was no doubt true in some but not all offices.
Office Etiquette (2020-2021) be like: "I suppose I'd better get dressed for this video conference thing and turn off the TV before it beings."
Yep. 😄
Know your worth
Enjoy your work
Enjoy the people you work with
Treat others as you want to be treated
Be considerate of your employer
Respect the title (in the military, the Uniform or rank) even if the idiot filling it doesn't deserve it.
Unfortunately, that’s not the way the real world works with the workplace if you want to get ahead. Maybe it will if you want to keep your job. Military personnel, union, federal, and public service employees are the exception.
@@jondstewart People like you are the reason why some people dread going to work. You don't have to be a douche or step on others to get ahead. I've lived by the advice given in this clip and have done just fine throughout my working career.
@@skip031890 actually no, I’m the complete opposite. I mind my own business at work and go about what I need to do. Just many years of my military and post-military career I’ve seen it all.
These shorts are so soothing.
Gregory May I wanna go back!!!!!!
True!
I must get a pair of them myself then.
@@GirGir183 I see what you did there LOL
I agree. Takes you back to a simpler time, far away from the problems of today.
Very helpful information. Too bad I'm watching it while in the office.
Haha same.
Me too
too funny
Just get back to work, however you might wish to share it at break.
same here :D
I love how everyone is introduced with their surnames instead of their given names.
I kinda like that. It does have a sense of importance to it
Reminds me of Are You Being Served?
isn't that the formal way¿
As it should be. I loathe the way everyone is addressed by given names, even in the most formal situations. And especially when I'm making a complaint.
@@MsTimelady71 Are you free?
The music in these 1950s documentaries is interchangeable. They all sound like the background music to Leave it to Beaver.
This film is incredibly useful. To say that my high school experience left me unprepared for success in life is a vast understatement. At least my parents taught my siblings and myself the importance of punctuality and having a good work ethic!
Did high school not place value on punctuality? I went to the most barebones public school you can imagine, but you always got penalised if you were late.
@@MahouKat, I was given my first Timex at age 7 and my parents made sure I knew how to use it. That was part of my lesson in being on time. My dad said that I didn't have an excuse now about being late. That was just over 60 years ago and to this day I don't like being late. In the Army they'll take money from your pocket if you're late too many times. As an over-the-road driver companies would fire you if you are late too many times. I had a reputation for being on time and got certain loads because of it. Yes, it caused a few other drivers to be jealous but they were the ones who were late. Some companies want the load "just in time" or JIT. If not the plant could/would shut down and your company would get fined. The fine varied and could be charged by the minute or by the hour. I delivered to a couple of places where they had just ran out of raw product a few minutes before I arrived.
If you show good punctuality, you arrive no less than 5 minutes early and no more than 10 minutes early, especially when it comes to a job interview or being on a time clock. Less than 5 minutes early means you’re straddling the line for being late and more than 10 minutes early means you’re too anxious.
this is still useful today
I'm finding most of these have information still relevant today.
Yes it is especially the part about getting along, and the KNOW YOUR WORK part too.
@@vintagehippie3647
Doing thing correctly in good form is timeless. If you have been anyplace to conduct business, you are sure everybody is an idiot. People dress as if they are going out. Nails are far too long and colorful. Way to many breasts. Far to dayum many options.
"it was plain and neat"
No mention of how much the women loved to be smacked on the bottom. Surely that was still in vogue in 1950.
Her handwriting is beautiful! I wish everyone still wrote like that. I try my best but it’s nothing like that.
I know right! So neat 😍
Treat others treat others as you would like to be treated. Now there's a philosophy that's been forgotten, now it's every man for himself or I'm special... I deserve it.
When I go to work and school, I try to follow that same philosophy. The importance of being patient, taking criticism, and being courteous has lost its meaning today. Now people want good done to them but refuse to do the same to others.
I remember my typing teacher, Mr. Woodward. He was really nice. I excelled at typing, 60 wpm on my manual Royal 9th grade and I could spell anything. It all came in handy when I made a good career as a medical transcriptionist. All this advice is still current for today.
Learning to type accurately and quickly in 6th grade was hands down the most practical and useful skill I learned in school- such a timesaver. I remember my teacher too, Mrs. Schoen. She was older but still bleached her hair blonde and wore it in a bouffant in 1990. I loved that class- the sound of the electric typewriters clacking all hour was SO satisfying lol
Being considerate is a lost art in the professional world now.
More and more lost everywhere else in the world, too.
No. It was not universal back then. Equally, there are offices these days where people are thoroughly considerate.
People are still considerate. We just don't tolerate racism and sexual harassment anymore.
Yup. Customer service at least with young people, is almost non existent
Stormy D. Yep. Lol. Fortunately I hardly every smell that anymore. That was a fad for some years, it seems. Thank God it isn't anymore
Peoples writing back then is goals
People's*
MICHELLE 77va you waisted 5 seconds of your life correcting someone’s punctuation
@@memberofthelambily1340 not really. it made me laugh
May Rose you are cute can I ask you out?
Cameron Banghart wasted. Have you been educated?
I think it's funny how using "fine" as a response used to be courteous, but now it's aggressive.
You have to purr the word. Say it after me: "fiinne." Now smile! lol
@Stephen Brawner True. There's far too many mentally ill people wandering around these days yet the psychiatry industry keeps lying to themselves and everyone else that these folks are "normal".
Ben Crouch
I did not know it it’s aggressive
I think it is the tone of voice and body language that make the difference. Also, it was once said as, "That'll be just fine," or something similar, with a genuine smile. Now, it is often barked as a one word response with a scowl. I remember in my public speaking class being told that 90% of communication is non verbal. It is in the intonation of the voice and the body language that the real meanings are found. This is often, of course, why people are misunderstood and arguments occur online; it is also why grammar and vocabulary are of even greater importance now.
That girl is so fine.
This is the most diverse freaking classroom I've ever seen on one of these movies!
yes, I noticed that also. They even allowed fellas to take typing way back then! lol
@@lf.8433 A lot of them took Typing Courses because many of them went on to College and they wanted to Type their Term Papers instead of paying someone to do it for them.
Its not a movie
@Bob Smith .....the fuck? how was this a necessary comment. nobody was even talking abt black or white.
@Bob Smith Dood - they mean boys and girls. There isn't even a person of colour in the classroom, most people expect that in 1950s films.
Two great points that were made: 1. Don't argue; 2. Accept criticism graciously. The bottom line is still relevant today, be considerate are of others.
Yes! But also how the employer handled it rather than arguing back he didn’t admit fault but worked on a solution to get it better. So classy!
Gave me a few flashbacks. I took typing in high school and we learned on a manual typewriter. I remember using the carbon paper and how it would stain your fingertips. Knowing how to type sure came in handy when I went into the Army. It not only helped me do my job better and easier but got me a cush job or two. My typing speed went from 45 words per minute to an average of 55-65 depending on what kind of day I was having using an electric typewriter. When I went to OJT for my first secondary MOS one of the first things the sergeant asked was could I type and then I had to prove it. Being able to type got me my third and fourth MOS's too. After the Army I took a course in Data Processing and had to take a typing class which I made all 'A's in. I had have to make some adjustments in letter writing because I was used to the Army's way of paperwork. A few of the young ladies in the classroom did ask me what was I doing in there. Even as an over-the-road driver I used my typing skills just about daily. Sending a freeform message on the Qualcomm system is easier and faster when you can use all of the fingers to type. In the 1970s and 80s we didn't have computers and printers to do documents. You had to learn how to do them and most had to be typed. The office etiquette I had to also learn but that was taught at home to begin with. To this day I still tuck my shirt in my pants. I've gone to pick up loads and sometimes the shipping clerk will give me a double take because of the way I look. It's not just the way you look but the way you carry yourself. It's also gotten me a warning instead of a ticket.
...and your typing skills was used in this long comment. Very Interesting.
@@kenechukwuobu8229, yes, they were. I started learning in 1972 while in high school and it's one of the skills I continue to use.
I'm starting my first job tomorrow at a new social media startup company so I searched for office etiquette. I will follow this advice to heart.
Even then, it's who you know that gets you the good jobs.
SkiKoala and how good looking you are!
Yes Private.🐧
Yes Private🐧
it ..has ALWAYS been so¡
Yeah, and notice there were a bunch of POC in Miss Purcell’s class, but none in the office?
I love old videos like these. I’m not from that time period as I was born in 1980 but it still evokes feelings of nostalgia.
Ah but if u were born in 1980, then u certainly saw old reel-to-reel films like this on the ol’ EIKI projector in elementary school! ❤
And I love how they just hand her the job without an interview!
They interviewed her.
@Stormy D. Exactly the good old days, when people showed up to work without fail.
The role was to be a stenographer and file clerk. That means filing and typing. Her typing test and the reference was all the interview that was needed back then for a role like this.
They don’t show that part… this is a G rated film after all…
Yes, they don't ask, "if you are a serial killer, do you go for the best or most priviledged employees first, or do you just cull the herd indiscriminately? And by the way, what kind of weapons do you use with ease? We are looking for someone to take out the biggest gossip in the typing pool. And can you keep a secret? When was the last time you lost a hair-pulling?"
In reality, office politics don't get mentioned in any of these sugar-coated films, but they can be brutal and sometimes fatal. "her breath always smells like licorice. Nail her coffin shut." As you can see, I've been in an office situation several times. Let's not be goody-two-shoes about this. Co-workers can be real animals. Some of them will leave you lying in a ditch with your throat cut if you aren't forever vigilant. Then ask yourself, "out of all the people who were fellow employees, how many of them ended up being my real friend?" It's an eye-opener.
is it ironic that i'm binge watching all these at work
What a lovely video! I work at an office now and this video was really enjoyable to watch and transcends generations! The advice given is timeless! Thank you for the upload! ❤️
I love these old videos!! Timeless . .
Damn, Priscilla really enjoyed that piece of candy.
Not as much as Adam West enjoyed his taffy.
This makes me miss my mom.
you mean your great great grandmother. lol. Sorry about your mom all kidding aside.
I miss my Mom too!
Beautiful English sentences.
These are exactly what I wanted to learn.
Thank you for the great video.
If these rules were followed today, imagine how much better society would be ❤
Because life was just perfect in the 50s, right?
@@PolevayaMyshLife was never perfect, but it was certainly better in the 50s. As someone who actually lived in the 50s.
@@PolevayaMysh Your channel and comments are irrelevant, no facts are in evidence, you are cautioned about "improper thinking", and all your comments will be stricken from the record, thanks for playing, you lose
Jee wouldn't that be swell ?
@@SC-gw8np As long as you weren't the wrong skin colour, or a woman who didn't know her place.
Of course your life was better in the 50s, you were a child and did not have to worry about anything yet, so you're viewing the 50s through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia. Clutching onto the narrative that "things used to be better" is always nonsense, someone your age should know that.
I did a secretarial course after finishing O levels back in the 1970s. I learned how to type on a manual typewriter (with carriage return), use carbon paper to make copies, use tippex to paint over typing mistakes, use a telex machine for sending dotted ribbon telexes, learned how to receive telexes too and how to make a ribbon bow with them - cats cradle style - to store them in neat small bundles. I also learned how to insert a stencil on a stencil machine and use a turn handle ink roller for printing off multiple print outs of the same document. I also learned Pitman's shorthand as well. We also learned how to answer the phone in a polite, natural sounding voice. There was a lot to be said about the latter. Now, people either answer the phone too informally or else they must learn rehearsed scripts making them come across too robotically. After manual typewriters (Corona etc.) were obsolete, then came electronic typewriters (Golfball machines) that allowed you to type a new line without a carriage return and had some limited predictive text capability and allowed you to erase a mistake without using tippex (at least on the top copy). When the first chunky word processors were introduced to office work in the early 1980s, I was thrilled when I was given an AES machine, complete with floppy disks to save all of the documents on, and using it to type new documents - learning all of the different codes you had to learn to insert or erase a word, start a new paragraph, a new page, print a page etc. There was Wang too, another popular word processing programme. Back then, computers were strictly business machines and no one thought it possible that they could become part of the routine home life landscape later on. Typing was one of the most useful skills I ever learned and it has served me well throughout my career - doing writing, consultancy, reports as a freelancer at home. It hasn't helped me to type efficiently with my thumbs on a on a mobile phone though. I am really rubbish at doing that. The film above misleadingly tries to depict secretarial work as interesting and rewarding. It really wasn't. It was boring most of the time -low paid work for those who weren't very well qualified. You were just taking routine letters down in shorthand, doing audio typing of reports, lots of filing, tidying the stationery cupboard, and booking meetings and flights for your boss going abroad and, of course, making coffee and wheeling it into meetings you were never invited to (except to take Minutes). It was considered a lowly job in terms of work status. If you got a job on the secretarial tract you were rarely promoted to anything better, except as a personal Secretary or PA - doing much the same kind of work - only to a more senior male boss. The worst part about it for me was the patronising way managers, and even junior executives often talked sown to me and treated me as if I was an imbecile. Secretaries were defined by the lowliness of the job status, not personal qualifications or how well they expressed themselves as intelligent and needed to be talked to and treated as capable accordingly. It was really soul crushing sometimes, I found. My self esteem was in tatters after a while. Another problem was the amount of personal non-work related tasks my bosses asked me to do, such as taking and picking up dry cleaning, cancelling private arrangements with their wife etc. The bosses treated us like their personal servant a lot of the time. Sexual harassment was sometimes a problem too. No one who wanted their daughter to do well in life and get a well paying job leading to a career would encourage typing as a skill - it was seen as a route to no-where (just being a housewife after marriage). Men were hardly ever employed as secretaries, only proper PAs with real responsibility and a shot at management or else they were taken on as junior executives from the get go. Sex discrimination was rife back in the 70s (The Sex Discimination Act was only passed in 1975). Thankfully, I managed to crawl out from under the heavy burden of such discriminatory work and get on doing stuff more akin to my abilities, after completing A levels and a degree, but many women of my generation really ever did. They were stuck in the secretarial trap and never looked beyond what was considered back then such lowly office ranked work. Thankfully, I think the role of secretary/PA/Executive Assistant is seen in a very different light today, and many such jobs are highly paid and personnel given proper respect for the role they do. All the same, my attitude is probably still entrenched in the past attitudes of when I did the job and I still see the secretarial / PA role as basically 'helping someone else do their job' - rather than having a job in their own right. But, if you think about it logically, isn't that what all jobs do when procedures are followed? Help someone else do their job better? Therefore, I think I am wrong and outdated in thinking that.
For me, who graduated from high school in the 80s, your post was educational about the past and even relatable to some things I experienced, such as working with the Wang word processing system in my early 20s! I remember my boss at an accounting firm telling me that Wang was becoming obsolete, when I had only become familiar with it a year earlier. I was really disappointed, since, in my mind, I had put in personal time learning how to use it.
Wow, that was so many years ago! I eventually became a school teacher, my chosen profession, after the most important job I ever had in my entire life, which was raising my wonderful children! (I feel like I racked up an insurance plan with God with that one!!!) 😉
Thank you for sharing your post!
I wish I could just travel back in time. Simple to follow instructions.
I was really hoping when she hired the girl at the end she would have said “I believe your coat is in the other room”
Well the girl was already wearing her coat
@@Vlad2319 That would make it even funnier
I’m an admin in a large office. I enjoyed this. Things have come a long way. I was new and young in the 90’s. When I think about how things were then compared to now… some things are better and some things I miss, but one thing for sure is those professionals set the path for us today. Women didn’t have too many choices back then.
They did as long as they wanted to be teachers, nurses, secretaries, or sweatshop workers. Those that were strong and dominant personalities that wouldn’t accept the stereotypes were a threat and having a Jezebel spirit.
In the 90's? Women had plenty of choices. I was an adult woman then and I had the same choices men did, for the most part. Maybe you are thinking of the 60's?
@@sbg2520 yes, I meant the 60’s as far as choices, rights, etc. I started working in the 90’s, but even then there are things that are way better now like rights, technology, etc.
After years of moving from job to job, I interviewed at the Langsford Learning Center, a small private clinic for students on the dyslexic spectrum & related disorders.
After introductions & a review of my background, the directors told me this:
"We have a policy here that there's no gossip or backstabbing. If you have a problem with another instructor, you should go directly to that person with three possible solutions (to avoid either/or outcomes)."
I jumped to my feet, shot my hand out, and cried, "Sign me up!"
It certainly didn't hurt that when I shadowed an instructor who was working with a student, I instantly knew this was my dream job.
I was right. That was in the early spring of 2003 and next year I'll have worked there 17 years. To ensure that we "knew our jobs," we were given 120 hours paid (minimum wage, but paid) training--30 hours per program--and as soon as we had 30 in the main one, we were teaching.
I still love it.
The atmosphere remains joyful... My colleagues are invariably fun, supportive, & pleasant. The students arrive in all varieties of mental & emotional states, often ground down by previous school or tutoring experiences. But almost universally, within a day to a week, kids leave smiling and cheerful, skipping out the door to their bewildered parents. It's certainly not because the work is easy. Two hours daily building skills that weren't there before?? It's like physical therapy for the brain! But the atmosphere is authentic, with lots of direct praise & discovery. Very rewarding, because it works.
I also find this job personally rewarding. I have the opportunity to look into each student's mind as well as pedagogic profile & medical & (possible) neuropsychological profile and see what seems to be going on. Kids will come in with an extra layer of anxiety about, say, a tall teacher because of past experience unreported to us by parents & medical staff. Or a relative or pet may die. Anything.
But the students show years of gains in months of work.
It's terrific.
My word, this sounds like an amazing place to work. Where is it located and do they require any training /degree/certs to work there?
Sounds refreshing.....I shudder to think of all the bad habits that I learned from supervisors and strange workplace environments.
And the positive work environment also helps the students learn. People can pick up on the emotional states of others, or the vibe of an environment. If an environment is stressful and upsetting, it's hard to retain information. It's easier to be successful when you're more at peace.
I love all of these old videos!!!!! I can watch them over and over!!!!
Some of the very basic things that should be maintained in today's life aswell 👏 i love watching these etiquette videos, it represents class ✨ rare to find these days.. No wonder why older generation have more courteous attitude & class while speaking. Also, I loved how the Queen Elizabeth's hairstyle(not saying that she owns this look but I could only recognise this hairstyle from her photos) of that time was all trending and these clothes 💖 wish we could adapt these looks even today! I'm inspired ❤️✨
Teacher can do so much when a child comes to school ready and willing to learn. Self discipline and motivation are traits that can, and should, be taught before a child reaches school age. The first 5 years are crucial to how well a child is prepared to be part of a group. Many personality traits are fairly ingrained before a person even comes into the education system.
Children should be taught all that before they enter school age? They can barely locate their private parts! Let them be toddlers!
I am going back to the office tomorrow so I am watching these videos to relax and to remember what it's like. Obviously it's nothing like here lol but it's still a lovely ideal.
I learned to type back in 1994 with an electric typewriter. I´m Finnish and I´ll always and forever remember how we practised: aslak ajaa ladalla alavilla mailla (I believe that´s how we started). Definitely a good skill to have.
The actress playing Joan is actress Mary LaRoche. Later she went blonde and played Sandra Dee's mother in Gidget and appeared in various films and TV shows.
I remember my typing class in 1986. I was 14. I got a D. Yet as I type this, I work in an office.
Mine was in 80. I got a D as well, my first ever. We had the most horrible ancient manual typewriters and the keys were always sticking, it was impossible to make a decent time score.
I worked in an office in the early seventies. The partners had to be called 'sir'. Always. We were not allowed to wear trousers to work. An exception to that sometimes made if the weather was freezing but the trousers had to be worn under a skirt.
I was a secretary in the early 70s when I was in my early 20s. I had to call my boss "Mr" and "Sir" when others were around but Bob when we were alone. Of course, I'd been his children's babysitter when I was in high school.
No trousers, and always nylons unless you were allergic to them.
"Girls, most of you are here to learn the skill that will allow you to be useful for the one to three years until you get married after high school. At such a time you'll leave your job to become a homemaker and mother. For the other girls, if you are found unsuitable for marriage, learning to type will enable a bright future of spinsterhood, with many typing pool supervisorships available. Boys, thank you for enduring this state mandated elective, and no talking to the girls while they work."
I learned to type in a typing class in High School. We used the same kind of typewritter that those ladies were using in their typing class.
I liked her signature, the way the letters were slanted.
You mean CURSIVE?
Monica Collins I’ve seen cursive without slanting their letters so much. I write cursive without slanting my letters as much as she does.
@@monicacollins8289
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You mean Italics..
Truly a lost art these days.
So that’s how people wasted time at work before computers.
People were so respectful to each others in those days...
What have happened to us now, zero patience & tolerance.
People were respectful back then? Have you ever watch Ralph Cramden on TV? Have you ever seen the Three Stooges? Have you ever seen a group of southern whites swoon upon a black man? Uh Oh I just couldn't resist that last one.
Yeah they were.
Today ppl are rude imo.
Right on point. 2:45 “we be believe that getting along is important”
Had a nasty typing teacher back in 1969. Big old manuals. If you pulled out a typed page without lossening the carriage and it made that rasping noise she would turn around and give you a look of pure hatred. We used to type to music to get a rhythm. Whenever I hear A Theme From Summer Place' I have sudden urge to type.
This is still very useful nowadays. I work in a public office and most of the advices are basic common sense but still, I see some people having a hard time to follow.
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Advices isn't a word. Advice is both singular and plural.
@@ingriddubbel8468 It might have just been a simple typo.
Ingrid Dubbel We are a “melting pot”. Lol
They still taught typing in the late 1980s in high school. I took it as an elective in high school and can still type faster than most people who never learned. And know how to use an electric typewriter.:)
My kids had Key Boarding in the late 90's, it was typing just updated the name.
I learned on a manual in the 70s. You really had to beat the hell out of those keys.
I can use a manual. Lol
Ah, me too. I can type, but can’t text for shit! Where is the home row when you need it!?
IBM SELECTRIC!! THE BEST TYPEWRITER!
“I’ll show you where to leave your cell phone, ms Spencer”
“Ms Spencer? Where did you go. Shit, they always leave when we mention putting away the phone”
True.
An early job my mother had was at the local Montgomery Ward. This was probably in the early 50s, more than a decade before I arrived in this world. During what passed for the orientation speech back then, the manager declared "We know you're all thieves!" And I guess Mom and the rest of the new hires were informed they would be watched like a hawk. I'm sure that was a very positive work environment, lol!
The anguished look on the new girl’s face right at the very end says it all.
"Oh, I get it....I'm going to die here!"
@@mfitzburger5137
"We all are."
I am a administrator and it really annoys me when colleague make personal calls on their work phones. This video still applies to now! So much!
"I am a administrator".
Check your grammar, lady.
How many of you came here after GLS uni, Hirva maam, told you to watch this live in lecture??
Now apply for a job by text. The amount of REGRESSION since the 50's is staggering.
This was curiously refreshing. I loved it.
I don't agree with "enjoy your work" because some work just sucks. Though, I do think we should try to find something enjoyable about whatever job we do, even if it's just the people we work with.
Thank you for sharing this film. God bless you. ❤
All of this still applies today and is very good advice
This is a great video describing how and what I'm taking as a grade 10 course: Careers + Civics.
But I'm mostly studying about careers. All in all, this video was quite useful to me. Thank you. :)
Joan Holloway's tour when Peggy Olsen started work was... ahem... different (in Mad Men).
mitsos I loved that scene.
This was so enjoyable to watch … thank you for this great video 🌹
"Know your work. Enjoy it.
But also enjoy the people you are working with
Be considerate of them
And Be considerate of your employer"
Wow getting a job was easy back then
@Mc Water not true
Back then, manforce was so much needed. Now computers have changed things
No shit! No you can have a 100 interviews before getting a job, and there may be 200 applicants for a job. This movie shows a fantasy world compared to the world I live in.
Syntax Error watch this video you’ll be prepared for any job
Because back then the country wasn't overrun with immigrants as it is today with a million+ entering legally every year, plus several times that illegally.
Miss Spencer was really in search of her Mrs. degree. She would get it in 1952, falling in love with a low rung businessman. By 1960 she had 4 kids and was very happy until her husband died of a heart attack in 1965. She returned to the office and was a very good typer until she retired in 1987.
Steven Birn she moved toArizona and met a widower named Stanley. They married and are still together in an assisted living community, where she helps in writing the newsletter.
You left out her second and third marriages...
@gregg brady I'm glad you mentioned the correct word, typist. "Typer" grated on me just as much as it did to you.
@Solo traveler your error was in assuming any many would be interested in your degrees. You should have spent less time studying and more time husband hunting.
I love these old videos lots of commonsense procedures that actually greatly matter to success in life in this nostalgic video.
Amazing how it all still holds true today.
Just a reminder - these etiquette films don't represent the reality of offices even in the 1950s. My grandmother was a secretary in the late 50s and had just as many rude coworkers and bosses as my parents complain about. But on the brightside, that means the amount of great people (who in my experience represent the majority) has stayed consistent too. ^^
She’s complaining about the office environment too this day? Interesting.
"I was graduated last semester." I like this construction, passive rather than active. It denotes deference.
Screw that. They don't just hand out diplomas, you have to work hard for that shit. People have every right to take credit for that kind of accomplishment
Maixiu, I just learned about this construction about a month ago. I read Jane Straus' excellent Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation, and it mentions this use of "graduated."
@Runner Girl, I was thinking the same thing about his comment. And what is more discouraging is the amount of actual learning one DOESN'T have to achieve to earn a diploma these days.
@@AnHeC, your point is correct, but if more people realized how much they DON'T know upon graduation, they would humbly acknowledge that graduation is a status granted rather than earned.
@Angel Bulldog, that's cute and funny. And Runner Girl, thank you for the response.
There are quite a few people at all of the jobs I've had that could learn a thing or two from this.
I remember doing shorthand! I was able to do 120 words per minute. Wow! I’m only 53, but used it at my very first job. Actually fond memories.
FlexyMama - My HS girlfriend used to teach me how to write/read stenography. I’d see her sten notebook and the gibberish written on it blew me away that it can be written and read. I was intrigued by it, lol. Honestly, I thought it was very interesting.
NJA 3 It is rather. Reprice, isn’t it? It looks like something out of a spy movie today. I remember really enjoying it and thinking how clever was the person who invented it.
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Love the gal snacking out big time, licking her fingers and then spreading all those crumbs over her papers....
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Me too😆😆😆
I had pictured her eating chocolate bars, and getting greasy chocolate smears all over the letters. Boss: "Oh Miss Jones, there's a problem with this letter you typed for me." 😂
Oh she was my favorite. She sure loves her chocolate. 😊
And saliva.
@@terenarosa4790 Covid!!!
I love how courteous they are. It’s like people have more finesse and class back then
It's almost like they're acting...
Lol this is highly idealized. Office work was just as grim then as it is now.
I was also blessed with a great, compassionate, and wise typing teacher. She taught typing and so much more. I went from using the old nonelectric manual typewriter to the electric typewriter. Then there was the first awkward word processing program. Now the confusing processing programs. Typing was probably the class where I learned the most.
The simple days of the 1950's - How polite they were then!
Not to black people
@@bootscooty No, just to humans
@@javiergilvidal1558 oooh what a shocking reply coming from you
@@bootscooty What´s shocking about it?, and what do you mean by "coming from you"? Would it be less "shocking" if it came from somebody else?
@@javiergilvidal1558 so not only can you not interpret sarcasm but you seem to genuinely want to know why a random stranger would say something about you... Lol
I still use some of my shorthand when I write notes to myself.
Me too. Shorthand was so hard for me to grasp at first, I cried many a night because it just didn't make sense to me. Then one day out of the blue everything clicked and I loved it, got my 120 wpm certificate and helped me get a higher grade when entering the government on my first job. Many things bring back memories for me in this film, I graduated in June 1956 and started my first job in July 1956. Good memories.
Lois Austin I wasn’t very good with my shorthand but I do remember some of it.
These days it takes a $100k education to get the type of job they are Training for.
Hillary M advanced secretary? Wait, excuse me, executive assistant.
100,K education and they pay you $15,00 Hr these days!
@@davidcampbell1899 minimum wage is 15 dollars per hour where I am. Fast food workers make that.
@@coffeecoffee5914 There are a few MBA's around working at places like Wal Mart or in the Fast Food industry. Not everyone who is educated is lucky!
@@davidcampbell1899 Strange, I've experienced most job placements are based on aptitude, not luck.
8:10 Reading a newspaper ? How quaint. And during peak office hours ? Now that's a hoot !
My grandmother was a secretary for the CIA and typed up top secret documents all day. This video makes me feel nostalgic. Also love their hair and clothes.❤
The bane of any office worker, right up to the 80's... Carbon Paper.
Greg Kamer Some has such a great aroma. :)
@@nja3224 Yeah, especially when they came right off the mimeograph machine.
Exactly!! Kept carbon paper into the late 80's..lol
Carbon paper got all over you.
Addendum:
1- Quit cooking fish in the microwave
2- If you must discuss your medical procedure or precious offspring's diaper habits, do it outside, or at a non-shrill, low voice. Better yet, email.
3- Stop clipping your toenails in the office.
4- That vapor incense you're spewing into the air? Not everyone adores 'mint heaven'.
5- On that note, spray perfume into the air and walk through it at home; do not bathe in it.
Excellent, thank you.
The tension in this video is palpable. I couldn't finish.
1. Be attractive.
2. Be handsome.
3. Don't be unattractive.
To Serve Man truly in an office full of attractive people, the productivity is high! I notice only the ugly ones are annoying and lazy!
@@augustinefaithdefender
Um...
The ugly ones cause wimmin to call HR to complain regardless of what they do.
@@toserveman9317 wimmin LOL
@Sam Mencia
The tina fey bit ("be handsome, be attractive") was set in a modern office that just USED the old timey film strip about proper office behavior. The secretary (played by tina fey) called HR.
But you are correct.
I'm a bit surprised about how many people wish things were like this video now. I don't think people realize _everything_ that goes a long with going back to the 50s.
They really don't. It hasn't occurred to them that these instructional films existed because people weren't behaving this way.
Is it all or nothing?
I remember using the old typewriters. Ugh! How I love the Word Perfect programs of today!
I guess we'll see the film about dealing with office politics, backstabbing, sabotage, gossip, and slander next.