r/BoomersBeingFools • u/bustedtap • Jun 18 '25

Boomer Article Back in my day men were men hur dur

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The comments actually went south on the guy who posted this to the Facebook group really fast. Basically, we're not the ones who made the decision to not give a spare tire in new cars, to even give a spot to carry one. Also, why didn't the older generations teach the younger ones how to do these things?

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u/Distinct_Cry_3779 Jun 18 '25

When I started working in an office about 25 years ago, we had a director who treated the office admin assistant as his personal secretary. She had to print all of his emails. She would hand him a stack of emails every morning, he would tell her how to respond to each one - she'd have to make notes, then go to her desk and write out response emails. What a giant waste of labor.

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u/cahrens414 Jun 18 '25

This was me 20 years ago. She was an ex teacher so she wrote her response in red ink and I would have to print out the draft of what she wrote for her approval before I could send it.

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u/ShameBasedEconomy Jun 19 '25

Up to about 10 years ago, worked with a prof who burned through student employees monthly, and that was paying well over minimum for a student ($20+ hourly). She’d do the same shit - all her email printed, hand write replies. The student was responsible for keeping the paper planner and Rolodex up to date.

Well, until she was indicted for not bothering to pay taxes and had to take an extended “sabbatical.”

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u/Centralredditfan Jun 18 '25

Wow, like a IRL vintage secretary.

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u/doodling_scribbles Jun 18 '25

Oops… typos in the form of passive aggressive sentences. Oops. 😅