Looking back at the era of beepers and brick mobile phones, Glassdoor, the jobs and recruitment website, looks at how different \u201990s company culture was compared to the office environments of today.<\/p>\n
What did we do in the \u201990s that now\u00a0seems downright retro to modern day employees?<\/p>\n
Read this list of\u00a019 things you did working in the \u201990s that you never do now – and enjoy the flashback:<\/p>\n
1. \u2026Kept resumes on a diskette.<\/p>\n
2. \u2026Took a real lunch hour\u2014yes, an hour.<\/strong><\/p>\n 3. \u2026Came into work sick, coughing and sneezing. Sickness was not actually considered a valid reason for taking a sick day.<\/p>\n 4. \u2026Had relatives who described their jobs as \u201cworks with computers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n 5. \u2026Carried a briefcase that may or may not have simply contained a sandwich.<\/p>\n 6. \u2026Had the \u2018Rachel\u2019 haircut or the Meg Ryan.<\/strong><\/p>\n 7. \u2026Read the entire newspaper daily.<\/p>\n 8. \u2026Handed out business cards regularly.<\/strong><\/p>\n 9. \u2026Tried to sneak and listen to Nirvana on a Discman or Walkman in a cubicle.<\/p>\n 10. \u2026Only took \u201cthe company laptop\u201d on work trips.<\/strong><\/p>\n 11. \u2026Left work on a Friday and headed straight to the video store to rent a movie.<\/p>\n 12. \u2026Waited impatiently for dial-up internet.<\/strong><\/p>\n 13. \u2026Handed out promotional pens to potential clients.<\/p>\n 14. …Researched topics using the Encyclopedia Britannica.<\/strong><\/p>\n 15. \u2026Listened to the constant, screeching buzz of the printer as it prints documents on continuous paper – for use with dot-matrix and line printers.<\/p>\n 16. \u2026Enjoyed an expensed lunch with plenty of booze.<\/strong><\/p>\n 17. \u2026Browsed a Rolodex card before picking up the phone to dial a contact.<\/p>\n 18. \u2026Faxed reports to the \u201cmain office.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n 19. \u2026Carefully guarded the stapler, three-hole punch, scissors and calculator.<\/p>\n This article can be found at Glassdoor, here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
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