Language we used in the 60s
"After awhile, crocodile". In 1962, as a programmer on the UNIVAC 1004, I endured the leers of the BEBCO owners, one who boozed me up at a Christmas party then followed me home to 'feast on his kill'. Cept I had 2 kids and wasn't playing.
The hypocrisy of religion hasn't been brought up yet and should be: the worst pussy hounds were the strait-laced Sunday Baptists. No operating systems and punch cards, collators and sorters. We rolled up our hair at night and rolled toilet paper around it when we got it 'done' at the beauty parlor. TV had been around for long enough to be taken for granted, with the great Sid Ceasar et al being our favorites. We had Great Books Clubs after work, and my 1st boss was my leader, and became my husband.
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I have a question for Alice the Pilgrim. In 1962, was the pace of business much slower? Written and oral communications were much more labor intensive and tedious which probably slowed things down a bit. Am I right? If so, did a slower pace compensate for the drinking (which would slow me down), or did the drinking make the pace of business even slower? Or, were the expectations different about what could be accomplished in a single business day? I have often thought that the faster pace of communications today can be a hinderance to good decision-making and careful consideration of ideas. Thanks!
In 1962, in our business, the pace was definitely much slower. Business relationships were indeed also built on the golf links and in the country clubs and also with old school buddies. That way, my brother-in-law bought a factory that made who-cares..and with his Industrial Engineering degree made a success of it. His business connections, old Auburn buddies, saw to it.
My boss and I had to sneak around with our little sexual liasions because of the no-no about interoffice romances, strictly enforced. YOu could get fired for such.
Drinking was fine, but come back to work snockered and you would be spoken with sharply, or fired, depending on who you knew. An exec? fine, a saleman? fine, an order boy? out the door.