Thread 106203383

Working in IT was so comfy in the 80s

Why is it so souless now

This was a normal mid level office back then not even for managers

>>106203416
this was a entry level office btw

>>106203383 (OP)
We can't go back in time and make Germany win WW2.

>>106203383 (OP)
Go back then. I grew up on old computers, they were buggy and slow as fuck

>>106203383 (OP)
Because MBA faggots kept cutting away at operating costs to keep investors happy and make line go up so now everyone is brown and works at a giant open air lunch table.

>>106203383 (OP)
Back then it was all new and exciting. The stuff is a commodity and a solved science by now.

>>106203383 (OP)
Thats because now "IT" has been bastardized to basically just mean instead of
>person who works ON computers
>person who works WITH customers that USE computers

>>106203923
you might be on to something actually

>>106203416
>Open office
>Barely any space
>No semblance of privacy
The only thing that's enviable there are the colleagues when they're not partying like frat boys

>>106203383 (OP)
>a new industry appears, investors don't understand it
>suit throw money on teams that show the results and buy them
>after a few years, they understand enough to keep the profits but minimize spending
>the work becomes an underpaid hell where you should fight with thirdies and migrants for your dollar

>>106204120
It wasn’t nice because it was new, literally every white-collar industry was nicer forty years ago. Everything turned to shit, not just IT

>>106203383 (OP)
>This was a normal mid level office back then not even for managers
>corner office
>normal
bro, at least make your nostalgia bait believable

>>106203383 (OP)
You weren't alive during the 80s, and probably not even during the 90s.

>>106203383 (OP)
Nobody working in IT in the 80's had an office like that, dipshit. Why do you keep pretending they did?

>>106204145
It's a well trodden meme to post something opulent and luxurious from the past and pretend it was the bare minimum. e.g. In the 1950's you could have a 5 bedroom house in the suburbs, a stay at home wife, six kids, a dog and a Cadillac all from working part time at McDonald's.

>>106203383 (OP)
Back when keyboards had pencil rests because you wrote so damn often and tech just paid lower-middle class salaries

>>106203383 (OP)

that does look more like office used at ms office elevator ad

>>106203818
this post goes very hard

>>106204286
my grandfather supported his wife and 5 kids on a sergeant's salary