Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Anonymous Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Date: 12 Jan 2016 01:15:23 GMT Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <977171a2-738d-4405-9241-7cd8f403ef94@googlegroups.com> <0b1e5873-aafc-48f0-b304-092b8f03ae0b@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net yy5vjpRZlMuArI7YD22jEghlWiSf7QtOM+96THhDozXE0paSbO Cancel-Lock: sha1:lL4QKggMgg8aSrNmSWsbZdAwuNY= sha1:l4b7TSus9AvO8plm945mpxy6IlI= User-Agent: NewsTap/5.1.2 (iPad) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:156460 Michael Black wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2016, Anonymous wrote: > >> wrote: >>> On Monday, January 11, 2016 at 10:45:21 AM UTC-5, Dave Garland wrote: >>> >>>> Ah yes. In 1972 my then-employer specified that I wear a tie. So I >>>> did. After about 3 months of my wearing the same cheap tie every day, >>>> they decided that maybe it wasn't absolutely necessary any more. >>> >>> Back then, when we were in high school and got jobs as clerks, we >>> didn't wear a necktie. But when we got to college and got student >>> intern jobs in offices, we were expected to wear ties. >>> >>> People who worked in blue collar jobs did not wear ties, indeed, as >>> mentioned, some could not for safety reasons. Many blue collar >>> jobs, such as maintenance men or truck drivers, wore uniforms. >>> >>> Bus drivers and cops wore neckties in the winter, but not in the >>> summer. That may still apply to this day. >>> >>> (One modern touch I dislike is cops wearing baseball caps. Cops >>> should wear a uniform cap.) >>> >>> As mentioned, in the film, the men wore outfits that might be >>> considered 'loud' or gaudy by today's standards, or those of just >>> a few years earlier. Anyway, I want to point out that while lots >>> of men did dress that way in 1975, there were some employers who >>> were conservative (like IBM), and followed a similar dress code-- >>> white shirts, not colored or patterned, and a conservative suit >>> or jacket and tie. >> >> A university classmate set a cat among the pigeons by turning up for >> his new job at the local IBM plant wearing a pink shirt and with a copy >> of the Worker, a communist newspaper, under his arm (in 1970). >> > He was pretending to be one of those "commie pinkos"? Not quite. He _was_ one of those commie pinkos. -- Bill Findlay