BBC SCHOOLS - GOING TO WORK: The Modern Office (TX 15/10/84)

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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
  • The Modern Office from 1981! Just look at those vintage computers and machines. It's hard to believe that a modern office was like this once! We'll be having a chat with some of the staff that work in an office environment. Made in 1981 and recorded here in the Autumn Term 1984. Continuity includes Follows Shortly Slide with Music and Daytime On 2 Ident. From my own personal collection of video tapes. Uploaded for educational purposes only.

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  • @helenhayward2027
    @helenhayward2027 3 года назад +23

    Omg I’m in This video! A friend of mind came across it. I’d completely forgotten about it! I was 27. 37 years ago!

    • @Seeker0fTruth
      @Seeker0fTruth 11 месяцев назад +4

      Very cool! Time stamp? Happy almost 40th! 😉
      Edit: I can’t math apparently lol.

  • @jackbrown6788
    @jackbrown6788 4 месяца назад +4

    I'm watching this at work. Evidently, our productivity has faltered somewhat over the years.

  • @rg8783
    @rg8783 6 месяцев назад +7

    "As a lot of the company's paperwork is confidential, one of Julie's jobs is to make sure the unwanted papers are destroyed ..."
    However, if you are Mrs Williams of 81 Quintrell Ave. Portchester, HANTS, we'll film your details along with your Southern Gas account number ... 🙄

  • @carlybishop6160
    @carlybishop6160 3 года назад +15

    This was so interesting! Thanks for uploading. So much had changed in 40 years. I wonder what these people would think of us all working from home using Zooms and Teams.

  • @Mike-pj1kv
    @Mike-pj1kv Год назад +7

    Those modern offices are amazing. Computers and stuff.

  • @lillymay3632
    @lillymay3632 Месяц назад +4

    Interesting that everyone speaks without using a load of filler words.

  • @mikedavies395
    @mikedavies395 3 года назад +7

    That theme tune is so good ! I wish they'd release it

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy 2 года назад +3

    I remember these programmes so well. Thanks for uploading.

  • @80ssynthfan48
    @80ssynthfan48 2 года назад +6

    Can't believe they included Copy by Japanese New Wave band Plastics.

  • @ajs41
    @ajs41 3 года назад +3

    Great video, thanks for uploading.

  • @andymerrett
    @andymerrett 6 месяцев назад +1

    It's funny watching this 40 years on, now most of this looks antiquated.

  • @LANCSKID
    @LANCSKID Месяц назад

    Julie and I in the post room … phwoar! Apart from that she told me that her job was good training in trolley pushing for when we visited Sainsbury’s after work to buy our crispy pancakes for tea. Mmm … lovely!

  • @diptastik5651
    @diptastik5651 2 года назад +3

    Why is it hard to believe!!!! Everything has to start somewhere. Even with technology there is an evolution.

  • @CocoaPuff01
    @CocoaPuff01 Год назад +4

    They were still using typewriters and it was nearly the 90s. Wow

    • @markofsaltburn
      @markofsaltburn Год назад +3

      I learned how to touch type on a manual typewriter at secretarial college in the 1990s. I’m not sure if they still use them, but it’s the best way to start. I had to demonstrate my accuracy on paper before I could graduate to electric.

    • @freddysquirenaranjo4859
      @freddysquirenaranjo4859 11 месяцев назад +5

      it was 1981 this BBC video so nearer 1970's

    • @CocoaPuff01
      @CocoaPuff01 11 месяцев назад

      @@freddysquirenaranjo4859 1981 is closer to the 90s actually

    • @80sandretrogubbins25
      @80sandretrogubbins25 Месяц назад

      @@CocoaPuff01 1981 is not "nearly the 90s" though.

  • @brigitpimm8488
    @brigitpimm8488 Год назад +4

    The biggest lie was that having a job is interesting I wish I was advised to be a housewife.

  • @guppywibble3752
    @guppywibble3752 Месяц назад

    Oooo...it's all a bit too modern and technical for me! I wish those trendy frocks were in the shops when I went to work in an office .

  • @safirahmed
    @safirahmed Месяц назад

    Tomorrows World had an programme in 1969 that mentioned computers on desks within 15 years.
    Similar news in the 2020s mean AI and quantum computing being available as mobile devices within a much shorter time period before 2035.

  • @googleuser7454
    @googleuser7454 Год назад +2

    i kind of like the vintage computer design.

  • @markorollo.
    @markorollo. 3 года назад +3

    Two weeks before my tenth birthday

  • @nobbynoris
    @nobbynoris 2 года назад +3

    What is the theme music to this programme, dose anybody know?

    • @geologick
      @geologick 2 года назад +2

      It's a song called Breakaway, by Frank Mills

    • @lancechinnian4043
      @lancechinnian4043 2 года назад +2

      That's a great track by Frank Mills but it's not the theme music (heard at 1m 23s). Does anybody know what it's called pls?

    • @80ssynthfan48
      @80ssynthfan48 Год назад

      @@lancechinnian4043 It's as I indicated.

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles Месяц назад +1

    @6:08 - What a hideous dress !

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 3 года назад +4

    WTF ?? Waitress service in an office canteen ??

    • @astardustparade
      @astardustparade 2 года назад +2

      You mean the 1980s?

    • @Pinkdolly1000
      @Pinkdolly1000 2 года назад +4

      Companies in the past invested in money in order to implement staff in canteens. I believe presently there are certain large corporate office blocks that still have restaurants implemented within buildings. This is not unusual.

    • @matthewlovelock6928
      @matthewlovelock6928 8 дней назад

      Yes the directors had a separate dining room

  • @bcgibson22
    @bcgibson22 4 месяца назад

    None of these jobs exist now (apart from the post delivery)

  • @alisonmullins5202
    @alisonmullins5202 2 года назад +1

    cout for you

  • @Celticowl4136
    @Celticowl4136 Год назад +1

    Is that a young Jeremy Paxman I hear narrating this?

    • @andymerrett
      @andymerrett 6 месяцев назад +1

      Sadly not, it's someone called David Simmons.

  • @alzeNL
    @alzeNL Месяц назад

    apparent that GDPR wasnt a thing then :D

  • @mistofoles
    @mistofoles 3 года назад +3

    @11:40 - Time to visit the dentist !

    • @alzeNL
      @alzeNL Месяц назад

      for english teeth shes doing pretty well :)