My parents always told the four of us, "There's no shame at all in doing honest work to the very best of your ability, no matter what that work might be. You don't have to be an executive or an entrepreneur, but you do have to be reliable, honest, and hard working." It sure helped to have some good supervisors and managers along the way because they gave (us) hope when the really rotten ones had to be worked for---that is, knowing that eventually there would be someone better at the helm.
M experience these days before retiring is that the supervisors or managers were not trained this way. The product is those "rotten" higher-ups. When I first started working 40 years ago, the training for supervisors apparently were as this video. How strange decades later, that managers, etc. don't treat their employees as this video states, and then the company wonders WHY there is so much 'turn around' in employees. Somebody should send this video to those companies these days and maybe they will learning something about employee training.
Wrong, the boss is fine. You are woke, entitled, loudmouthed and perpetually self-victimized. Come on girl empower yourself and interact with your male boss regardless of his ideology, don't be so discriminatory.
back in the 1950s, they did. someone working a union job could afford a house. Education was also more affordable. but then companies got greedy and started paying employees less and less. The cost of living went up while wages either stayed the same or went down.
@@ratedasmr7811 Companies didn't just get greedy. Back in the 1950s, only one person in the home was expected to work. Men would only take the jobs that allowed them to support a family, so if you didn't offer a decent wage that allowed for the wife to stay home, you wouldn't have any employees. Then bam feminism. Women started working and accepting lower paying jobs, forcing the overall living wage down, and men were eventually forced to do the same because they couldn't claim they had to support a family. They only had to support half. And now look, everyone's making half a salary because at least 2 adults in the home are expected to work full time. Progress!
@@smittysmeee exactly. and men and women feel purposeless and miserable. I blame all of the above. Now two incomes is necessary not a luxury. People have no idea of the impact that feminism, the pill etc changed everything and not for the better.
She’s only bringing home $57 every two weeks, or 1,368 a year. According to a US Department of Labor bulletin published in 1947 the average household budget for a single woman was 1,400-1,700 in most of the US. No wonder that lady hated her job!
Approximating 1947 for the year of the film, her $60 pay for every TWO weeks was worth; What cost $60.00 in 1947 would cost $754.47 in 2021. Not very good pay for TWO WEEKS, and then minus 5% would make the $754 be reduced about $35. or about $9 an hour to-day for 80 hours
I wondered that too, and found this with a little searching :) Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Aeronautics.; Atlas Educational Film Company. Publisher: Navy Dept., United States of America, Bureau of Aeronautics, 1943. Edition/Format: Film Summary: Demonstrates a step-by-step technique of introducing a new employee to the job, emphasizing the importance of first impressions.
See minute marks 15:37 and 17:46 > What year do those calendars say? The setting of the era is stated in the film itself. Did you pay attention to the film?
ya i think certain words did not have a certain stigma they do now at the time. i've heard the word "prejudice" also thrown around a lot when not refering to race or gender in some of these.
@@pulledtrigger in addition the taxes taken out are probably not as bad as today, then various insurances, luxury expenses credit card debt also we're as rampant
@@pulledtrigger Inflation doesnt tell the whole story. Things used to cost less as well. WAAAAAAAAY less. Economy didnt scale to population lol. Everyone is hustling 10 times as hard to make it. Back then you only had to lift a finger. The only difference is today we have more opportunities and safety nets. More consumerism as well.
The boss is overbearing. Irritating. A jerk. He is not your friend. You're not friends with upper management. You stay as far away as you possibly can.
No, the boss is fine. You are woke, entitled, loudmouthed and perpetually self-victimized. Come on girl empower yourself and interact with your male boss regardless of his ideology, don't be so discriminatory.
When an employee is new, the kindly supervisor tries to be considerate, considering that the new employee is an unknown. It's hard to know what catches on quickly, and what doesn't > people are different, and the supervisor isn't a mindreader of the new person. People then also didn't speak as fast as they often do now, so it's not condescension, but consideration that is shown in the film. If the supervisor assumed that the new employee had fast comprehension, and spoke fast, abruptly and abbreviated the conversation, it might have overwhelmed a new employee, and not been seen as welcoming, as well as not exemplifying what the film worked to demonstrate. The film had a purpose, yes? So the script writers and direction of the film sought to lay those points out, step by step, did they not? Presenting things in a 'step by step' manner is often going to be seen by quick thinkers as "talking down", or "talking as if to a child", or as "unnecessary", but the film was trying to demonstrate its points. That was the whole purpose, and it's easy for viewers to lose sight of that.
I wish somebody would hold my hand like that at work! …Although I’m so unaccustomed to that, it might cause me to wonder whether he thinks I’m a bit stupid! 😂
It was completely normal for a woman who was ill or injured to be escorted to the ladies' room----and nobody was doing anything out of line or sexual in any way---because if she was faint, she could fall and be further injured. The ladies' rooms of that day usually had an anterior room where there was at least a loveseat and maybe two or three relatively comfortable chairs, plus a couple of tables with lamps---kind of like a tiny hotel lobby, meant for the women to be able to recover without a big scene.
This seems like a healthy work environment. I wish my job was as supportive as this.
My parents always told the four of us, "There's no shame at all in doing honest work to the very best of your ability, no matter what that work might be. You don't have to be an executive or an entrepreneur, but you do have to be reliable, honest, and hard working." It sure helped to have some good supervisors and managers along the way because they gave (us) hope when the really rotten ones had to be worked for---that is, knowing that eventually there would be someone better at the helm.
M experience these days before retiring is that the supervisors or managers were not trained this way. The product is those "rotten" higher-ups. When I first started working 40 years ago, the training for supervisors apparently were as this video. How strange decades later, that managers, etc. don't treat their employees as this video states, and then the company wonders WHY there is so much 'turn around' in employees. Somebody should send this video to those companies these days and maybe they will learning something about employee training.
"Employees are people." I know some businesses could use this video.
Right you are!
He’s right. Every job, no matter how small or insignificant it may seem to you, is absolutely important for everyone.
1942...My mom & dad and mother-in-law were born that year!
it seems that this company is quite well organised I wish it would be everywhere like this
I love the shelf of hats on top of the coat rack (back when all men wore those hats).
Mmmm lice
4:03: A supervisor is not and should not be a friend- if the employee knows what’s good for them.
Wrong, the boss is fine. You are woke, entitled, loudmouthed and perpetually self-victimized. Come on girl empower yourself and interact with your male boss regardless of his ideology, don't be so discriminatory.
Women had such fulfilling roles, several decades ago.
calendar says 1942, right in the heat of WWII.
For starters, pay them a living wage.
back in the 1950s, they did. someone working a union job could afford a house. Education was also more affordable. but then companies got greedy and started paying employees less and less. The cost of living went up while wages either stayed the same or went down.
@@ratedasmr7811 companies also don’t provide pensions anymore.
@@ratedasmr7811 Companies didn't just get greedy. Back in the 1950s, only one person in the home was expected to work. Men would only take the jobs that allowed them to support a family, so if you didn't offer a decent wage that allowed for the wife to stay home, you wouldn't have any employees. Then bam feminism. Women started working and accepting lower paying jobs, forcing the overall living wage down, and men were eventually forced to do the same because they couldn't claim they had to support a family. They only had to support half.
And now look, everyone's making half a salary because at least 2 adults in the home are expected to work full time. Progress!
@@smittysmeee exactly. and men and women feel purposeless and miserable. I blame all of the above. Now two incomes is necessary not a luxury. People have no idea of the impact that feminism, the pill etc changed everything and not for the better.
@@smittysmeee the problem isnt feminism which you'd know if you weren't a moron
She’s only bringing home $57 every two weeks, or 1,368 a year. According to a US Department of Labor bulletin published in 1947 the average household budget for a single woman was 1,400-1,700 in most of the US. No wonder that lady hated her job!
No taxes were taken out.
@@debramccafferty2918 There’s still a discrepancy.
I worked for the Navy Exchange on a base as a civilian the pay was ok but the benefits you couldn't touch today .
17:54 This was 1942- not 1947
I adore the flowery dress in the first bad example!
"Never a second chance to make a first impression"
My boss used the same speech and sequence when I got hired
6:28 Literally LOLed!!! It's like the film went from soft to hard propaganda in like 5 seconds!
That was the norm back then
Alot of hand holding back then which worked well for the employee who was considered an investment. Unlike today you are a number .
And 100% replaceable/disposable.
I love your channel ♡♡♡♡
@10:50 "in case you're injured or taken ill, report to me and we'll arrange to have you taken to one of the lady's rest rooms."
Back in the days when the ladies' rest rooms had sofas in them!
@@MeowingKittyCat thtwt might be why they were called restrooms
"I'm quitting Saturday".
"Getting married?"
Nostalgia is for the birds, that time sucked.
my bosses were never like Mary's boss. Mine were total jerks
Approximating 1947 for the year of the film, her $60 pay for every TWO weeks was worth;
What cost $60.00 in 1947 would cost $754.47 in 2021.
Not very good pay for TWO WEEKS, and then minus 5% would make the $754 be reduced about $35. or about $9 an hour to-day for 80 hours
She sounds like she is scoring a great job.
today her $57 would have been $615.
Way less probaby, because now they deduct state, federal tax, and health insurance, plus 401 K.
Narrator is Mike Wallace I'm sure.
What year is this from?
I wondered that too, and found this with a little searching :)
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Aeronautics.; Atlas Educational Film Company.
Publisher: Navy Dept., United States of America, Bureau of Aeronautics, 1943.
Edition/Format: Film
Summary:
Demonstrates a step-by-step technique of introducing a new employee to the job, emphasizing the importance of first impressions.
I'll assume 1942 based on the calendar they showed in the film and the reference to wartime (WWII).
@@WondrousEarth that explains why only the women were being hired, as you probably know.. women weren't really allowed or considered able to.
See minute marks 15:37 and 17:46 > What year do those calendars say? The setting of the era is stated in the film itself. Did you pay attention to the film?
Wow, 1942!
An “indoctrination” class?!
Lots of companies still do that.
Poor Mary @ 3:40 looks like she was going to pee her dress out of nervousness!
16:53, indoctrination class?
ya i think certain words did not have a certain stigma they do now at the time. i've heard the word "prejudice" also thrown around a lot when not refering to race or gender in some of these.
Yes, like when the Coca Cola company teaches you all about Critical Race THEORY!! 😂
Miss Egg?
57 dollars for 2 weeks. Omg! And they need a new actress.
$57 in 1947 is $644 in 2018 due to inflation. and thats alot.
oraah, I wouldn't say that $8.00 an hour is much, certainly not by Canadian standards. Well below minimum wage.
@@maunster3414 yeah but Canadian tax and vancouver's prices... oh lord 😭
@@pulledtrigger in addition the taxes taken out are probably not as bad as today, then various insurances, luxury expenses credit card debt also we're as rampant
@@pulledtrigger Inflation doesnt tell the whole story. Things used to cost less as well. WAAAAAAAAY less. Economy didnt scale to population lol. Everyone is hustling 10 times as hard to make it. Back then you only had to lift a finger. The only difference is today we have more opportunities and safety nets. More consumerism as well.
Why the heck the supervisor should be sitting in quiet room, with someone bring coffee, and others in crowded room, has anyone thought about it?
He has more to mange, needs more momentum, and has to have confidential conversations, to name a very few.
And the others have to interact more, hence the crowded room.
The boss is overbearing. Irritating. A jerk. He is not your friend. You're not friends with upper management. You stay as far away as you possibly can.
No, the boss is fine. You are woke, entitled, loudmouthed and perpetually self-victimized. Come on girl empower yourself and interact with your male boss regardless of his ideology, don't be so discriminatory.
When ladies acted like ladies
And men acted as gentlemen
@@user-bo8nb2mi Yeah, well, men stopped acting as gentlemen when women started acting like men...
Is it just me or is the girl like omg im not stupid. I got it in like 10 mins why are u still talking to me like a child.
When an employee is new, the kindly supervisor tries to be considerate, considering that the new employee is an unknown. It's hard to know what catches on quickly, and what doesn't > people are different, and the supervisor isn't a mindreader of the new person. People then also didn't speak as fast as they often do now, so it's not condescension, but consideration that is shown in the film. If the supervisor assumed that the new employee had fast comprehension, and spoke fast, abruptly and abbreviated the conversation, it might have overwhelmed a new employee, and not been seen as welcoming, as well as not exemplifying what the film worked to demonstrate. The film had a purpose, yes? So the script writers and direction of the film sought to lay those points out, step by step, did they not? Presenting things in a 'step by step' manner is often going to be seen by quick thinkers as "talking down", or "talking as if to a child", or as "unnecessary", but the film was trying to demonstrate its points. That was the whole purpose, and it's easy for viewers to lose sight of that.
I wish somebody would hold my hand like that at work!
…Although I’m so unaccustomed to that, it might cause me to wonder whether he thinks I’m a bit stupid! 😂
"...or arrange for you to go to one of the ladies' restrooms."
Uhhh...what sort of "arrangement" does that require, exactly? How peculiar.
It was completely normal for a woman who was ill or injured to be escorted to the ladies' room----and nobody was doing anything out of line or sexual in any way---because if she was faint, she could fall and be further injured. The ladies' rooms of that day usually had an anterior room where there was at least a loveseat and maybe two or three relatively comfortable chairs, plus a couple of tables with lamps---kind of like a tiny hotel lobby, meant for the women to be able to recover without a big scene.
The ladies rooms had couches to lay down for cramps
In case she got her period?, LOL
"No... it was all very plain. Just like your face."
16:31 The correct quote is > " No; it was all very plain, just as you had told me."
🤣
8:59 $57 ✌
Lmao!
That's about $650 today. It was pretty good for back then prices.