My great-grandmother was a bank teller in the 1940s. They openly paid women less. The dress code was very particular, including which nail polish and lipstick shades were allowed. Her biggest complaint was that they were expected to dress in a way that didn't fit the budget of someone who was paid so low.
@Carter Atwell Paying single women and single men differently is not logically sound. the media depicts all these married women as being a "taken care of" but that was not the reality. Additionally people were paid differently based on their race.
@Carter Atwell That's just movies and television romanticizing the 1950s. More married women enter the workforce in years after World War II than during the war. The reality was women were not inherently taken care of financially. The workforce paid people differently based on their gender and race because they weren't legally obligated to pay people the same.
@@Laura-tv2dx That's true! I am reading some Ladies Home Journal from 1947-1948 and they aaalways talk about the new working wives and working young women. They always talk about the cases where the wife must work because the husband can't make enough money to feed the family /:
Love tht in the beginning she spends so much time just cleaning everything. I do the same at my work as the main secretary and most people joke that i should work in housekeeping instead 💀
I used to be a secretary in the early 80s and I loved my job, keeping my desk neat and tidy, covered my typewriter every day before leaving and answering phone calls in a proper English was a must! Miss those days.
I just love the way they talked at the time. It was classy, elegant and confident, for both men and women. Would love to practice speaking like that sometime
Then you'll never get a full time job, especially in the US, because everyone thinks you are crazy or broken. 😣Particularlly in South Florida... stupid shithole of a state.
I don’t mean to ruin it for you but they didn’t actually talk like this… the accent like voice was done by actors and actresses to seem more elegant…. In their everyday life they talked just like us
i had a zoom tea party earlier today and i dressed up like the 1940s and said my name was Annette! something about the older times is so beautiful to me
tengo 13 años y estos videos son muy interesantes y me ayudan a entender ingles, sigo este canal hace unos meses y son muy bonitos. ¡que elegancia que tiene la mujer! perdón si está mal traducido, el traductor de Google hace lo que puede. I am 13 years old and these videos are very interesting and help me understand English. I followed this channel a few months ago and they are very beautiful. What elegance women have! sorry if it is mistranslated the google translate does what it can. ❤️
I love these videos!!! I love how she cleans Everything before she begins her day. I bet nobody stole anyone else's lunch out of the breakroom fridge. .😀💖💜🧡💛🌹🌷
What an amazing difference between how work was approached then versus now. People don’t even dress professionally anymore. What a shame such care isn’t taken on one’s appearance and poise anymore. So classy. 💕
a lot of office dress codes are very strict and sexist even still to this day and its a really bad thing. newer and more open/forgiving places to work with little to no dress code allow work to be done more efficiently and more comfortably.
I like how she kept herself “busy” and “useful” all day. U know it’s cuz they’re filming...irl she was prob yakking on the phone all day with Myrtle😂😂😂
It’s hard to tell if you’re teasing, but in fact secretaries were expected to type upwards of 50 letters a day. (I have a vintage handbook aimed at secretaries). She wouldn’t have had time to yak with Myrtle.
Looking at this it shows how the 40’s were the same and different as people may expect. There was defenitley sexism and racism and other problems and that was for sure happening. But at the same time, people were still polite to each other from the looks of it and it doesn’t look like they always had bad working conditions all the time.
@calihartley2010 If you actually bothered to read the comment I was pointing out that the 40’s didn’t look as bad as people said they were, despite the obvious problems. The fact that you think segregation was a good thing is extremely stupid.
I actually got a slight sick feeling in the pit of my stomach over how accurate this is to today lol As a former secretary, it's true I sat there organizing things, cleaning the office, first in and last out, opened mail. The only thing that's different today is getting screamed at by psychotic coworkers. Surely back then there were issues, but I feel like people at least forced themselves to be civil in the workplace. Not today - today it's all screaming and bullying with no discipline or accountability, at least from my experience.
Good point, I hadn't thought about it. It reminds me that back then, only the man in the couple used to work (generally), so it's safe to assume she could get married soon and leave the job
A fancy office like this didn't have a cleaning service? And she's dusting the boss's office chair? Geeze! I was a secretary for many years and never did anything like that! I began working in the late 60s and it was much different even then. This video should have showed the actual work she had to do and not just a bit of light filing. Kind of glossed over a lot of what a secretary was expected to do.
garmtpug it does actually this is a snip it from a larger ...film as it starts out with her just getting the job and has a really bad dream about potential bad mistakes ...
Agree. Secretaries might dust their desk on occasion IF the cleaning service wasn't doing a good job. Never saw any secretary clean the office of a boss.
As much as I enjoy my job now and enjoyed my years in public safety working as a part time firefighter, part of me wishes for the those bygone days where a young woman would work as a secretary then get married and become a homemaker. I think I would have enjoyed that. Not that I don't enjoy being a working wife and mother, I just wonder sometimes how it would be to live in that era of the wife being a homemaker and the husband being the breadwinner.
I really just wanna have day in the 1940's like it just seems way better than now, calming no internet no social media everything about it is just amazing
She's very lucky to have beautiful background music playing as she works. Also, poor girl doesn't know WWII is about to commence and her husband, brothers, nephews, and cousins are about to go off and fight the Germans.
She’s so gracious! A lot of girls I worked with were so insulted and miserable if the boss asked them to provide clients with refreshments; I felt like a hostess making the clients comfortable and at ease!
Yes!!! People who don’t state their name when calling or if I’m calling them-it makes me nuts!🤦🏼♀️ I’m like you, I’ll always say, “...and to whom am I speaking with please?” Everyone always jokes it’s some Indian guy with a name u can’t pronounce but his phone-name is Kevin😂...I’m totes fine w that, just gimme a name, any name...😂
I took secretarial classes in 1985. I learned dictation, and all of the latest technology for that time. Couldn't find a job though. Every where I went they said I had no experience. Back then you could just walk in and get hired. You learned as you went.
If this was supposed to give an idea of a secretary's work, it is very superficial and adds to the idea that it was a mindless job. Many an executive couldn't function without their secretary. They took dictation, but then cleaned up the grammar and made their boss's letter sound better. They had tricky navigating to do also. Don't schedule certain clients to come in at similar times. They don't like each other. Also, working out travel plans, often with some seemingly impossible requirements. Last minute changes. Can you stay late tonight, we have to write a proposal tonight that must be typed by morning. Remember, in those days, if you added verbiage in the middle of a document, every page after had to be retyped! And working with carbons. This video made it look like a chimpanzee could be a secretary.
😭 if only we could go back, I mean the good parts... leave out any racial disparity... but how lovely everyone dresses, the women’s role yes I know I’m a bad “feminist” I don’t care. Let me dust check the calendar be the secretary .... I’m here for it lol 😆 🥰
There's nothing necessarily negative about being a woman in a supporting role, quite the contrary. I've been in both support and leadership roles and thoroughly enjoyed both. As long as there's mutual respect, it all works well. 🙂
This was her first day on the job, the previous night she had an anxiety dream that she was a terrible secretary and left the safe open. These are clips from a much longer film.
Should we do helpful and considerate things only if we're paid to do them? But yes, I'm not sure if it would be reasonable to expect the secretary to do that as part of her paid duties.
Before I went free-lance, the last guy I worked for-if I had to clean his chair, I’d demand a hazmat suit😳😂....I know that thing was like the set of a porn movie...I’m not touching that🤢😂
Gross she butted out his cigarette and then wiped the ashtray into the trash can with that tissue or whatever... YUCKY! hahahaha smoking was so accepted then.
Still thirty-fourthy years ago the smoking in the offices was absolutely acceptable and normal. I remember a staffroom in my father's hospital (1970ths), there was usually so lot of smoke there that you almost cannot see the opposite corner of a room. :D Such of contrast with the present day hospitals. ;)
If it's 1947 and this girl was maybe 27 years old then, she'd be 100 now. Crazy to think about it
Rogue849 hmm, true, well my grandpa who was 17 then is 90 now
She looks a little younger than 27. She was probably not a day over 23, so that puts her in the nineties.
If she was 27 in 1947, she would be 75 in 2022. My dad is 79 and he was born in 1943.
My great-grandmother was a bank teller in the 1940s. They openly paid women less. The dress code was very particular, including which nail polish and lipstick shades were allowed. Her biggest complaint was that they were expected to dress in a way that didn't fit the budget of someone who was paid so low.
@Carter Atwell Paying single women and single men differently is not logically sound. the media depicts all these married women as being a "taken care of" but that was not the reality. Additionally people were paid differently based on their race.
@Carter Atwell That's just movies and television romanticizing the 1950s. More married women enter the workforce in years after World War II than during the war. The reality was women were not inherently taken care of financially. The workforce paid people differently based on their gender and race because they weren't legally obligated to pay people the same.
@@Laura-tv2dx That's true! I am reading some Ladies Home Journal from 1947-1948 and they aaalways talk about the new working wives and working young women. They always talk about the cases where the wife must work because the husband can't make enough money to feed the family /:
Nothings really changed baby.
i was ur 100th like
Love tht in the beginning she spends so much time just cleaning everything. I do the same at my work as the main secretary and most people joke that i should work in housekeeping instead 💀
Lol
She should NOT have to do half the Janitor's job!
nice touch uploading this on the 22nd, that same day as the calendar in the office. Don't think it went by unnoticed ;)
I used to be a secretary in the early 80s and I loved my job, keeping my desk neat and tidy, covered my typewriter every day before leaving and answering phone calls in a proper English was a must! Miss those days.
This is such a cool peek into the past! It feels so much like one of those daily routine videos, before daily routine videos were even invented
Today you need to do like 30 things at once, but paycheck is still miserable as always. At least she is not drained.
Exactly-phones are ringing off the hook constantly, paperwork piles up to where you’re desk looks like a tower, no thanks
I'm so jaded I thought she was trying to get into that safe lmao
🤣 Maybe she was. She just needs a little more time to find the combination while she’s “cleaning” the office.
Lmaooooo
I didnt even realize it was a safe... who puts their safe in their main office lobby??
She is. Most women break their way into the safe by earning their MRS degree.
With the pay she was probably getting, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was!
I just love the way they talked at the time. It was classy, elegant and confident, for both men and women. Would love to practice speaking like that sometime
They did not actually speak like this.
Then you'll never get a full time job, especially in the US, because everyone thinks you are crazy or broken. 😣Particularlly in South Florida... stupid shithole of a state.
This is not an accent at all. its folks acting in America, WHAT ACCENT IS HEARD??
@@doriemckay6935 who said ACCENT ? where do you see ACCENT ?
I don’t mean to ruin it for you but they didn’t actually talk like this… the accent like voice was done by actors and actresses to seem more elegant…. In their everyday life they talked just like us
Elegant , vintage and classic I love this channel ❤️
i had a zoom tea party earlier today and i dressed up like the 1940s and said my name was Annette! something about the older times is so beautiful to me
tengo 13 años y estos videos son muy interesantes y me ayudan a entender ingles, sigo este canal hace unos meses y son muy bonitos. ¡que elegancia que tiene la mujer! perdón si está mal traducido, el traductor de Google hace lo que puede.
I am 13 years old and these videos are very interesting and help me understand English. I followed this channel a few months ago and they are very beautiful. What elegance women have! sorry if it is mistranslated the google translate does what it can. ❤️
I love these videos!!! I love how she cleans Everything before she begins her day. I bet nobody stole anyone else's lunch out of the breakroom fridge. .😀💖💜🧡💛🌹🌷
Grace... so much grace and politeness... that's all.
What an amazing difference between how work was approached then versus now. People don’t even dress professionally anymore. What a shame such care isn’t taken on one’s appearance and poise anymore. So classy. 💕
Yes, I agree! When I look at old pictures of my mom who is 96 now, she was always in a dress and pumps.💜🌺🌹🌷🌷🌷🌷
a lot of office dress codes are very strict and sexist even still to this day and its a really bad thing. newer and more open/forgiving places to work with little to no dress code allow work to be done more efficiently and more comfortably.
I'm so disorganized. I'd get fired so fast lol.
I like how she kept herself “busy” and “useful” all day. U know it’s cuz they’re filming...irl she was prob yakking on the phone all day with Myrtle😂😂😂
Yeah, theres only so much wiping and organizing one can do.
It’s hard to tell if you’re teasing, but in fact secretaries were expected to type upwards of 50 letters a day. (I have a vintage handbook aimed at secretaries). She wouldn’t have had time to yak with Myrtle.
jeremynv89523 lighten up luv
@@jeremynv89523 i used to be able to type about 60wpm on a typewriter . If you took 5 minutes on a letter (which is slow) it would take you 4 hours.
@@es4666 that sounds about right. Half the day to take down the dictation, the other half to type the letters.
Looking at this it shows how the 40’s were the same and different as people may expect. There was defenitley sexism and racism and other problems and that was for sure happening. But at the same time, people were still polite to each other from the looks of it and it doesn’t look like they always had bad working conditions all the time.
@calihartley2010 If you actually bothered to read the comment I was pointing out that the 40’s didn’t look as bad as people said they were, despite the obvious problems. The fact that you think segregation was a good thing is extremely stupid.
@calihartley2010 and what is the problem of mixed people ?
calihartley2010 Shut up, don’t like the comment??
Just ignore it, it’s not your place to decide someone’s opinion.
@calihartley2010 Segregation is largely to blame for the issues US is facing at the moment...
I loved watching this. Sometimes I wish I could go back into that time for a day. Just to watch in awe
I actually got a slight sick feeling in the pit of my stomach over how accurate this is to today lol As a former secretary, it's true I sat there organizing things, cleaning the office, first in and last out, opened mail. The only thing that's different today is getting screamed at by psychotic coworkers. Surely back then there were issues, but I feel like people at least forced themselves to be civil in the workplace. Not today - today it's all screaming and bullying with no discipline or accountability, at least from my experience.
Back then the men wouldn't have put up with that shit. Now they will be the one in trouble with HR for trying to stop it.
It be a miracle if she lasted longer than a year at her job lol I imagined most got married within 2-5 years
Good point, I hadn't thought about it. It reminds me that back then, only the man in the couple used to work (generally), so it's safe to assume she could get married soon and leave the job
...or were found dead of boredom💀😂😂😂
Denise Herud lol 😂
A fancy office like this didn't have a cleaning service? And she's dusting the boss's office chair? Geeze! I was a secretary for many years and never did anything like that! I began working in the late 60s and it was much different even then. This video should have showed the actual work she had to do and not just a bit of light filing. Kind of glossed over a lot of what a secretary was expected to do.
garmtpug it does actually this is a snip it from a larger ...film as it starts out with her just getting the job and has a really bad dream about potential bad mistakes ...
There is another video of that in another channel.
@@jadedavis822 What Film?
Agree. Secretaries might dust their desk on occasion IF the cleaning service wasn't doing a good job. Never saw any secretary clean the office of a boss.
I love the little stories in each of these videos thank you 🙂
Those shoulder pads would put Krystle Carrington to shame.
Honestly the door is so pretty!!
You can't fool me. This is the second half of Duties Of A Secretary (1947) video, colorized.
You were not fooled at all here. What you wrote is listed clearly at the end of the video. 6:16.
I thought 'how cute' when the typewriter was pulled out, and then neatly tucked away at the end of the day.
The left out where he tried to put his hand up her dress and chased her around the office after his noon drinks hahahahah.
Fourth... But imagine you don't have to write so much emails..
But you have to print so much paper mails on your typewriter. :D
Back when an ashtray could double as a murder weapon.
Thank u to the people who filmed these now we can see the time of the pastv
I can remember back to the 1960s and I was watching her clean the boss’s office thinking, girl get that ashtray! Everyone smoked back then.
If we leave out all the misogyny, sexism, racism and homophobia it truly was a beautiful time in history. 🙂
No time is perfect. I prefer to take the good (and acknowledge the learning from the bad)
As much as I enjoy my job now and enjoyed my years in public safety working as a part time firefighter, part of me wishes for the those bygone days where a young woman would work as a secretary then get married and become a homemaker. I think I would have enjoyed that. Not that I don't enjoy being a working wife and mother, I just wonder sometimes how it would be to live in that era of the wife being a homemaker and the husband being the breadwinner.
I really just wanna have day in the 1940's like it just seems way better than now, calming no internet no social media everything about it is just amazing
She's very lucky to have beautiful background music playing as she works. Also, poor girl doesn't know WWII is about to commence and her husband, brothers, nephews, and cousins are about to go off and fight the Germans.
This is from 1947, the war ended 2 years prior to this
It's so charming. I love it 😀
Easier to take care of menial details when not watching one's social media
Love how gracefully she glides around unlike the hard stomps of today’s women
Very classic and nostalgic
I really think I was born in the wrong era 🥺 the early 1990's was very classy and elegant
There is no reason why you can’t dress like that now. You can have vintage style without the vintage values that could occur.
I wish my job as a secretary was this easy....
She’s so gracious! A lot of girls I worked with were so insulted and miserable if the boss asked them to provide clients with refreshments; I felt like a hostess making the clients comfortable and at ease!
'Is he there?' I would have said 'is who there? Who am speaking with'? I cant tolerate lack of manners.
Yes!!! People who don’t state their name when calling or if I’m calling them-it makes me nuts!🤦🏼♀️ I’m like you, I’ll always say, “...and to whom am I speaking with please?” Everyone always jokes it’s some Indian guy with a name u can’t pronounce but his phone-name is Kevin😂...I’m totes fine w that, just gimme a name, any name...😂
Tell me about it!
My grandma never worked outside the house when my grandpa passed away my mom took care of her for the rest of her life
I wish I have a secretary good like her 💗
So elegant!
This is the end part of "Duties Of A Secretary (1947)" video...colorized.
Yes, and that is clearly listed at the end of the video. 6:16.
4:13 ignites wastebasket
Guessing there were no janitors😅. Not fair.
I took secretarial classes in 1985. I learned dictation, and all of the latest technology for that time. Couldn't find a job though. Every where I went they said I had no experience. Back then you could just walk in and get hired. You learned as you went.
Filing is easy when you know the alphabet!
Youd be surprised how many people dont understand the concept of filing
Better than digging ditches.
If this was supposed to give an idea of a secretary's work, it is very superficial and adds to the idea that it was a mindless job. Many an executive couldn't function without their secretary. They took dictation, but then cleaned up the grammar and made their boss's letter sound better. They had tricky navigating to do also. Don't schedule certain clients to come in at similar times. They don't like each other. Also, working out travel plans, often with some seemingly impossible requirements. Last minute changes. Can you stay late tonight, we have to write a proposal tonight that must be typed by morning. Remember, in those days, if you added verbiage in the middle of a document, every page after had to be retyped! And working with carbons. This video made it look like a chimpanzee could be a secretary.
Looks like a person could smoke on their office back then.... I liked her outfit:)
Smoking didn't stop until late 1980's, early 1990's.
AMAZING TIME!!!!!!!!!!
So I posted a comment that my math calculations were WAY off. Sorry about that.
😭 if only we could go back, I mean the good parts... leave out any racial disparity... but how lovely everyone dresses, the women’s role yes I know I’m a bad “feminist” I don’t care. Let me dust check the calendar be the secretary .... I’m here for it lol 😆 🥰
You can dress that way if you really like it. There are some women who do.
I'm not even a feminist XD
There's nothing necessarily negative about being a woman in a supporting role, quite the contrary. I've been in both support and leadership roles and thoroughly enjoyed both. As long as there's mutual respect, it all works well. 🙂
Carter Atwell Homophobia check *YOU*
She does all.that dusting and tidying up before she’s on the clock
So cute 😊
what was she supossoully doing at the beggining trying to open that?
This was her first day on the job, the previous night she had an anxiety dream that she was a terrible secretary and left the safe open. These are clips from a much longer film.
Respond if you agree.
To me, the boss looks like Robert Young.
The good ol days.
I would be consider too over qualified, a nice way of saying "too ugly". 😓Fuck this world.
Healthy times
4:30 Bish better say “please” 👿
I will not clean my boss chair no way!! i'm not getting pay for doing that!! ( in present day of course)
Should we do helpful and considerate things only if we're paid to do them? But yes, I'm not sure if it would be reasonable to expect the secretary to do that as part of her paid duties.
Before I went free-lance, the last guy I worked for-if I had to clean his chair, I’d demand a hazmat suit😳😂....I know that thing was like the set of a porn movie...I’m not touching that🤢😂
@@deniseherud Did you do it? or you manege to avoid it? 🤢
shinigami956 better then her not having a job, better then her not having to live in the slums.
The boss never says thank you
2020 alguém? Kkkkk
Estou aqui só por curiosidade rsrsrs 🇧🇷
🌹
So much wiping
Gross she butted out his cigarette and then wiped the ashtray into the trash can with that tissue or whatever... YUCKY! hahahaha smoking was so accepted then.
Still thirty-fourthy years ago the smoking in the offices was absolutely acceptable and normal. I remember a staffroom in my father's hospital (1970ths), there was usually so lot of smoke there that you almost cannot see the opposite corner of a room. :D
Such of contrast with the present day hospitals. ;)
First!
Second!!!
5:05 sexual harassment ... made it clear, what her Sex-ratary duties will be.
😴😴
Both men could of been a bit more polite
louise lill wdym??
@@caitlinhay8944 both men never said thank you or please I would say the same even if it where the woman .
louise lill how the hell do you know *Louise* ?