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Mom at her Underwood...on the job, about 1940, New Orleans

Mom at her Underwood...on the job, about 1940, New Orleans
Remimbr when piple proofred befor thye sent stuf? Submitted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park for the theme, OUTDATED TECHNOLOGY
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 Phil Sutters
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It's not a lot better now, with predictive texting. People sometimes don't notice that they have accepted the wrong suggestion. Some are very bizarre and could sometimes cause offence, if not corrected.
When I started work in a council office the typist was still using carbon paper to make copies, sometimes upto three at a time. The only computer was the council's payroll machine, using punched cards and taking up the space of half a dozen upright pianos.
3 years ago.
RicksPics club has replied to Phil Sutters club
In the early '70s, I used to have to make multiple copies of reports with carbons in the army, having to really slam the keys to get through to the bottom copy. Later, when I was a sales rep we were periodically sent a box of punch cards, one for each customer, that had to be arranged in the order that the customers were called upon and sent back to headquarters for processing. Usually not a huge task because they came arranged in order and changes were minimal. Unfortunately, I once dropped the open box and sent the entire contents spilling out. Took several hours to get it all sorted.
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
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haha. Good one, Rick. I have noticed that my spelling ability seems to have plummeted since I get "help".
Handy for those words our brain never seems to get for some reason, though. I once spelt "decision" four different ways (none of them right) on one page while scribbling notes in a Political Science class.
3 years ago.
 Deborah Lundbech
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Sorry, forgot to say what a sweet picture this is - and a perfect one for the theme.
Did your mom work for a newspaper? I'm not remembering. Her chair looks less than comfortable.
3 years ago.
RicksPics club has replied to Deborah Lundbech club
Thanks for your comments, Deborah. Sorry, I've been remis in making timely replies. I've got a political science spelling tale that's way worse than yours, however. I turned in a 20-page term paper on the Middle East in which I misspelled Israel 36 times and the professor gave it an "F" for the obvious lack of care and attention I had displayed. Political Science was my major and I was never able to resuscitate any previous credibility as a scholar that I may have had previously. It taught me a hard lesson.

My mom was a government employee for most of her working years, first with the state of Louisiana and then for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. She had some outrageous stories of graft and corruption from her two years working for the state. One example is that of her boss, who shot and killed his wife but was never charged because he claimed the shooting was the unintentional result of the trigger being released by the involuntary twitch of his trigger finger, also known as the itchy trigger finger. This man remarried and a few years later shot and killed his new brother-in-law in what was ruled an accident. I think he was presidential material.
3 years ago. Edited 3 years ago.

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