31 Replies to “May 18, 2023: Reader Tips”

  2. OMG, I loved this crazy video, as I was born in that year and actually followed many of the precepts during my life, as Canada followed the US by 15 years or so, culturally. TV=1956.

    My mother (1913-2000) told me NOT to learn to type, as people might treat me as a secretary. She had post-graduate credentials and I was headed the same way. I actually did take typing, but was terrible, so no problem until 1995 when we had to use computers.

    1) calendar – a slave to that, even now.
    2) took good notes and organized good folders, a queen of phones, and never wasted senior management time; provided foresightful tips and happily coached others.
    3) tactful, courteous and poised, when younger. Not so much now ….

    Fails:
    1) messy desk, always, in every job. No one cared, as I knew where any document was in the pile.
    2) never used tidy envelope opener; just tear open.
    3) never pushed in a chair at the end of day. The cleaners did.

  3. In one of my positions we had a secretary for the three top executives. She handled all our correspondence, the office as a whole was run by her. She was intelligent and well organized. Looking back on it I believe we paid her as a executive assistant, and she was well paid for that time frame we lived and worked in.

  4. Typing…hmm, I took that class in Grade 10..~1968 or so…not cause I wanted learn how to type, but cause there was a cutie I had a crush on..lol.

    It stood me well to do so, as a number of yeaars later, was in the Forces, learning morse code and typing it out as I recognized the characters…using specially built Underwoods with 4 extra characters. (RUSSIAN Alphabet has 4 more than ours).

    Our trade was called at the time “Communication Research”
    Electronic Intelligence of the day…

    I managed to get up to about 18wpm…and what one was typing was already 6-8 characters behind what you were hearing…the brain adapted.

    1972.

    1. I can go one further, in high-school I never took phys-ed or any shop classes because there were no girls. This despite being on the HS track & field team and being the fasted sprinter in my county in middle school.

  8. My mother was a secretary and I followed in her footsteps, after attending Shaw Business College in Toronto (before the family sold it and it went into the dumpster). The video reminded me of some very funny stories she used to tell. I was also a Temp for a short period and worked at various companies in Toronto. When I worked at Molson, every Friday my boss gave me a voucher for a 12-pack. Not bad!

  9. Pierre Poilievre accuses Justin Trudeau’s drug policies of killing people, while addictions minister snaps back

    https://archive.is/r3wHC

    Conservatives allege prescribed “safe supplies” of opioids are being diverted to the black market…

    On Tue I attended an early premiere of the documentary, Canada Is Dying, a sequel to Vancouver Is Dying. Both are about the drug trade and the failure of supplying addicts with opioids, which are then sold for stronger drugs like fentanyl. It’s not “alleged”, it’s happening in our cities right now.

    If you get a chance to see either, do so.

    2. Maybe, “let them go” might be added to the MAIDS legislation. I will never be mourning most tent folks and loosers who like drugs.

    1. Good. Now the Disney employees left in California can pay for Gavin Newsom’s reparations.

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