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Why was office work som comfy in the 80s 90s? Why is it so hell now?

This is a mid tier office in the 80s for a normal office worker

>>512841641 (OP)
That was top tier.

>>512841641 (OP)
>Why was office work som comfy in the 80s 90s?
It wasn't, rabbi.

I don't give a fuck.

>>512841641 (OP)

less competition

>>512841641 (OP)
Minorities didn't have rights back then.
Trans people and black people didn't have rights to express themselves. 80s and 90s were shittier

There were multiple movies made where the premise is an office wagie going insane at how pointless his job is

>>512841641 (OP)
Because it was chill unlike today with fast internet you are constantly bombarded. Life was much slower and better.

>>512841752
true but its also ai slop.

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>>512841752
this is the reality of todays office

>>512841641 (OP)

This photo is fake.

There wasn't other equally tall building as the Twin Towers around there.

>>512841641 (OP)
this was a manager's office retard, average worker worked in a cubicle
it's definitely better than the open space shit we have today but it's still cringe

>>512841641 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCYaALgW80c

>>512841641 (OP)
Even for the 80's that like an executive office. You'd be lucky to have your own little closet with shoebox window.

No joke I would fucking love a cubicle over the open plan hell of today
If I'm going to be a wagie, let me have my fucking fort

>>512841975
Why were office workers cooler in the past? Nowadays they're saturated with onions dorks, jeets, and social climber Chinese women

>>512841641 (OP)
Scandinavian furniture mogs 80s high rise aesthetic

>>512841641 (OP)
women and foreigners, anon

>>512841641 (OP)
Is a string a quantum unit? Does it have an a beginning and an endpoint i mean if you have 109283u09123809128309123b dimensions if it is 0 it will stay 0.

>>512842049
those are not the twin towers. the photo is probably from Midtown

>>512842468
It would be like cancelling each other out.

>>512842468
There just must one thing that remains and i will create the universe out of that.

I didn't dream it as "this is what I want" but I always saw myself as the last worker at an office, looking out the window from the top floor with a low key radio tune in the background with a cup of coffee on a Friday evening/night, thinking
"Another one of these weeks, huh".
So I get the vibe.
These days, I want nothing of the such as the work ethic is different but that doesn't change that I in a sense daydreamed about it.

>>512841641 (OP)
That’s the executive’s office.
Wagies belong in the cubicle pod.

>>512842451
90% of American business executives are white men. So what the fuck are you on about?

>>512842629
All these screams will fall on deaf ears because the chaos>nothingness.

>>512841975
that is not an office, it's hell

Kek even in the '90s they were starting to bring in the odd jeet here and there.

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>>512842718
this was a intern/ entry level office space

>>512841641 (OP)
everything gets kiked

>>512843018
Damn imagine how much less output was expected of the individual then. And they could afford so much more with they wages!

>>512841641 (OP)
Everything was comfy then. I feel that is when I was supposed to live when I watch those movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR5q2fXfkVo&list=RDkR5q2fXfkVo&start_radio=1

>>512841641 (OP)
"Corner office" is basically synonymous with upper management here in Murica

how do we go back guys

It was mostly analogue. Manila folders, penned signatures, landline phones, in person meetings. Now its file explorer, Adobe, Teams, and Zoom.

>>512843426
sad

>>512841723
fpbp /thread

>>512842741
your post is clinically retarded. leftoids seem to think that this is a good place to hang out because they hate jews now but you are all transparent fags

>>512842489
>those are not the twin towers. the photo is probably from Midtown

The cubic design is characteristic so as the antenna.

>>512843408
Looks amazing. Like a palace.

>>512842074
Abiotic factor tier

>>512843018
>There's an idea of a Patrick Bateman

one power plant makes 1gw of energy per year with 100 employees in 1950 today same power plant 1 gw of energy per year 1000 employees, politicians need to promise jobs dividing work until it is meaningless to the end product seems to be the goal. you can not see the value of your work.
inb4 watts are energy

>>512843747
Lazy ad hominem, as befitting your IQ.

>>512843408
Just get rich and make your private office in retro style like that, I bet some executives maintain this kind of style in theirs. Or are you dumb enough to think this was the workplace for regular paper pusher minions?

>>512841641 (OP)
>This is a mid tier office in the 80s for a normal office worker
No.

>>512842489


Photo is fake then. Because there's no cubic like towers close to Chrysler building.

>>512841641 (OP)
>Why is it so hell now?
Nobody knows.

>>512841641 (OP)
Murica was still huffing the fumes of the oil boom and baby boom. I’d still choose 1960s-70s

>>512841975
>zero privacy
>aging millennial fags constantly trying to talk to you and zoomers giving you vacant stares
Hell

>>512841641 (OP)
Leathers chairs, peta, communism etc

>>512843018
>soulless dystopian nightmare
lol lmao you want THIS? I want to see a nuke going off in the middle of that street

>>512841975
Cubicles >>> open space. And they were complaining about cubicles in the 90s. Kek.

>>512844231
>look at all this green nature
>you're stuck inside doing 8 hours of meaningless mind numbing tasks
zozzle

>>512843305
>you can now be completely miserable on a $1000 Herman Miller
kek

>>512843840
Ice skating between the Twin Towers - wonderful memories from vacations in Manhattan.

>>512844516
>look at all this green nature
It’s disturbing and destroys Manhattan’s cozy, raw asphalt jungle.

>>512844758
Sadly missed.

>>512844516
That's not nature, it's a park full of niggers and junkies.

>Work with cyber security and internal investigations
>Need to have our separate office because of working with sensitive/confidential information etc.
>Everyone in the company has to sit in a noisy office where they gotta swap desks
>While me + 3/4 others have our own office area no-one (not even the cleaning ladies)
>6 desks, so you have your own, 3-4 closed meeting rooms, a TV, Fridge and lounge area
>Have beers in the lounge area on Fridays

Pretty comfy ngl

Chinese poster cities >>>> American poster cities, by far. I am not affected by what Trump is doing with the city of Washington, but I hope for you burger's sake it's gonna improve things.

>>512845188
i was in cyber security myself
horrible and souless
i went back to aircraft mechanic

>>512841975
Me in the bottom right.

>>512841752
My dad was a janitor at IBM in the 90s and his office looked like this. He even had a jacuzzi and a bar in it.

>>512845406
Cyber security on itself is horrible but working with internal threats and fraud is fun as fuck. I get to investigate jeets who share clear text passwords and fire them.

>>512841641 (OP)
I'm pretty sure they had cubicle cattle back then as well.

>>512841641 (OP)
The best A.I. art I've seen has been 80s offices and apartments. Honorable mention for dark fantasy

>>512842818
It probably felt like an awesome rush to grow from 1 million to 1 billion users

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>>512841641 (OP)
>Why was office work som comfy in the 80s 90s? Why is it so hell now?
lmfao

op posts a ceo office that only 0.00001% of society did
he didn't put up an actual workplace pic

fucking subhuman nupoltards

im so fucking tired of this retard place

>>512845706
OP is a retard

I literally posted it

>>512845880

Also, does op know what is youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=1980s+office+footage+nyc&page=

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmpgSlqYUUo

>>512845939
Yes, I've heard a lot about the poster known as OP. Apparently he is often homosexual as well.

Sad!

>>512843018
goddamn i hate fuckin corn people so much. oh yeah let's live in the corn

>>512843018
you only got that job if you were a woman who sucked off a dick of a ceo of a financial company

>>512841641 (OP)
It's because of the comfy quality wood furniture and low tech

>>512841641 (OP)
Because the Jews spent a lot of money to convince you that it wasn't gay and retarded like it really was.

Works in an office

>>512841641 (OP)
There were women in the workplace but they were relegated things like secretarial or admin type roles mostly. The worst you might have to deal with is like a "Susan in accounting" type situation where she's asking you about some business expense you made or bugging you for information for the end of year tax returns.

Women weren't put into leadership roles or into specific niche "individual contributor" roles. The few exceptions I can think of are where it actually made sense (like artists or voice actors). So that was the extent of it.

Where things got really bad was in the 90s there were a lot of foreigners brought in to undercut the native workers. In America the H1b jeet problem really wrecked things. Jeets come to work smelling of BO. They stare at the women and then go jerk off in the stalls. They leave giant skid marks on the bowls of the toilets. Some, who come directly over from India (via those consulting companies) will even do things like squat on the toilet and you can hear the loud plops. Then there's the issue of them simply being incredibly lazy and not being capable of doing any kind of work which requires a certain level of intelligence. Your bosses or their boss never want to admit the mistake and push their fuckup onto you, where they tell you, you need to "train" them and get them up to speed. Which is about as hopeful as training a chimpanzee to do spreadsheets or software dev or whatever it is. So white people end up doing the work themselves.

You combine this with women being promoted into leadership roles (that they absolutely cannot handle). You combine it with the fact that wages have really tanked in the past few decades and you can turn a job which was comfy or at least sort of ok, and turn it into a nightmare.

>>512841975
I was in a corporate, millennial dominated firm when this started getting adopted. It's garbage. The only people that like it are all girls. For anyone who worked rather than socialized, it's a dogshit arrangement

>>512845743
https://youtu.be/56mJxMMi9bA?si=nUztOKavBmGaCuVT

>>512844758
Whoever originally made this one would be an Internet legend at this point

>>512841641 (OP)
How to name office hamsters like me? Who are the middle class, all the time wear clean office wear, believer, have some money. I read about yappi, but they are twisted on money and their live is show, how I understand. I love hiking and outdoors, yappi are not.

>>512846236
The main reason why they went with open plan is that it makes it easier for the boss to see people's screens and who is at their desk and who goes to who. The sad fact is that the guy who is seen at his desk (arriving early, leaving late), is seen to be working (e.g. has work related stuff up on screen), and who has other people come to them is getting promoted. With the stalls the boss couldn't actually easily see the screen or even if the guy is there unless they physically went and checked. It's absolute bullshit but that's the reason it's never died after decades of all the hard data (from people having more sick days, to it being more disruptive to actual work being done, etc).

Exact same with this "watercooler innovation" nonsense, i.e. you need to come to the office. There's absolutely zero hard data to support it. I still remember my corporate days where I'd commute for 2 hours total, just to spend a good portion of my time dialed into conferences that were in 3 different timezones while trying to get actual work done in the background. In one case I was the only person on the team on site, with my boss in his own office. What's even the point of commuting to do that every day? Boss still wants you to come in so they can actually see when you arrive and leave, since even deliberately wasting your time and pretending to be working late is still a signal that you want the promotion.

It's all so very tiresome. Especially women who just come to the office and just gossip and talk about irrelevant stuff. Not to mention just how easy it is to get fired because of those women (e.g. you say even something slightly politically incorrect at work and they will 100% just go report it). Not to mention that all of the useless people, including thirdworlders, who weren't even on my team would just come up to my desk and be like "I need your help with this". When all that stuff becomes digital, you can just mute them and continue working.

>>512843018
> Norway
Stop gloating at things that never belonged to your people. I hate scandiniggers so much it's unreal.

>>512841841
That was the 90s (American Psycho etc). In the 70s and 80s they glamorized corporate America. See: Who’s the Boss, Tron, Bladerunner, Robocop, They Live.
Some of these are satirical, but obviously glamorize it big time. They wanted people to become corporate lawyers or be fashionable etc.
Even movies where the main character is fired it glamorized this life. In Mr. Mom the guy is fired, and the wife takes over in a corporate job, and they live in a nice home. The CEO lives in a mansion. having a corporate job that payed for everything is part of it. It’s super sad this isn’t an option anymore.
In fight club, the guy was overworked to the point of violence and identity disorder, it explored masculinity and terror. the 80s movies don’t really do, but they still portrayed its ruthless profit driven dark sides.

>>512847213
I think even Batman is a good example of glamorizing city life / office work.

>>512841975
just because things got worse doesn't mean that things were good back then

>>512841641 (OP)
It wasn't.
>>512844032
Alllllrighty.

>>512842432
>Nowadays they're saturated with onions dorks
So is society in general.

>>512844032
debunked

The statement mixes up units: GW measures power (energy production rate), not energy. Energy output is in gigawatt-hours (GWh) or terawatt-hours (TWh). A 1 GW plant operating at full capacity for a year produces 8.76 TWh, but real outputs are lower due to capacity factors (e.g., ~80% for nuclear, ~30-40% for solar/wind, ~50% for coal/gas historically).

The employment claim is false. US electricity generation rose from 0.334 TWh in 1950 to 4.389 TWh in 2024, a 13x increase. Employment in electric power generation, transmission, and distribution stayed roughly flat at ~400,000-500,000 workers over that period (e.g., ~567,000 in SIC 49 category including gas/sanitary in 1958; ~413,000 in NAICS 2211 in 2024). This means labor productivity surged—fewer workers per TWh produced—due to automation, larger plants, and efficiency gains.

Per-plant data shows the opposite trend: In 1950s, small coal/hydro plants (often <100 MW) required more staff per MW due to manual operations. Today, a typical 300 MW coal plant employs ~53 people (0.18 per MW or ~180 per GW equivalent). Nuclear plants (common 1 GW size) employ ~620 per GW. Overall, employees per GW of capacity dropped from ~5,700 in 1950 (estimated from sector totals and ~70 GW capacity) to ~320 today (413,000 workers / 1,280 GW capacity).

Politicians do push job promises, often via subsidies or regulations that inflate staffing (e.g., union mandates or bureaucratic layers in renewables/nuclear projects), but this hasn't reversed productivity gains in power production. Work value erosion happens in overstaffed setups, but the sector's trend is toward skilled, efficient roles, not meaningless division of labor.

>>512843181
When drinking and taking naps I'm the office was considered normal.

>>512843408
Bahaha GLASS BRICKS.
I remember that shit.
Grew up in Boston.
Every once in a while you would happen upon a big pile of them next to the road, dumped from some renovation.

>>512843840
Holy shit, look at that occupancy rate! They were so empty at the end.

>>512841641 (OP)
Everyone smoked up the fucking office back then even if pregnant women were around

>>512841641 (OP)
Disingenuous post. All fields

>>512848039
K

>>512841641 (OP)
>office work
>hell
I clean buses night shift, you don't know what hell is, stfu yuppie boy.

>>512848511
Valid complaint.

>>512841641 (OP)
>instagram nostalgia posting was real

Here's what it was really like.

>>512841641 (OP)
>This is a mid tier office in the 80s for a normal office worker
>Posts corner office in a Manhattan high rise
Ah yes, that must be why the buildings are so tall, so that every single worker gets a corner office.

>>512841641 (OP)
What exactly was comfy and what exactly makes it hell now?

NeetNiggers startig to fantasise about work?

>>512847962

i miss them
my grandfather was rich in the 80s and he had those glass bricks as walls at some places in the fancy house

he went alcoholic in the 00s and lost everything

>>512849472
That how it was in USSR.

>>512842074
I don't know how I got here and I don't know what I'm doing.

>>512851041
Nice double phone lamps.

>>512851128
It's a living.

>>512841641 (OP)
>This is a mid tier office in the 80s for a normal office worker
Lmao yes, the corner office (synopsis in office culture for being important and sought after) is "normal"
Fuck off fag. 80s wagies had to suffer as much as modern fags with their cubicles and open office spaces

>>512841641 (OP)
>mid tier office
>eames lounge chair that cost $1600 even back in 1980s money (which would be over $6000 today with inflation)

>>512845580
Thats nothing. You should see my father's office in the 90s.

He worked at Nintendo, same as my uncle and my aunt named Rebecca

>>512841641 (OP)
My law office is straight out the 90s... complete with paper files and in office lounge

>>512841641 (OP)
No retard “normal” office workers did not have their own corner offices in high rises in the 1980s. You are inventing a past that didn’t exist to cry

>>512841641 (OP)
That’s a corner office with floor to ceiling windows, hardwood & leather furniture. That’s an executive’s office not just some average drone

>>512847962

I thought it was just Soviet craze in 70s-80s

>>512848732

move women back to kitchen and it's comfy af

>>512844231
Where the hell is this? Looks like something out of a dream.

>>512841975
Gives me a migraine just to look at it

>>512841641 (OP)
>Women and Subhumans ruined Business like everything else they touch
Shocking...

>>512854315
It's AI slop.

Though there are parts of NYC that kind of look like that because of how central park is one big massive rectangle in the middle of the city. But it's not remotely mountainous.

The cubicle was invented in the late 1960s with the hilariously named "Action Office II."

>>512841975
how are you suppose to get a blow job at work with everyone staring

>>512841641 (OP)
>office work som comfy in the 80s
>A Japanese Salaryman:

>>512841641 (OP)
less women and browns in the office

>>512848732
https://youtu.be/5cNJNKkCQ2E

What a time to be alive

>>512841975
People really works years in a hell like this?

>>512841975
It's quite simple. Women were given jobs aside from just secretaries or receptionists, so what naturally followed is every office company was turned into Jewish daycare for adults. Little goyims need to be supervised after all.

>>512854611
>its AI slop.
Figures. It really looked off, but in a good kind of way. Monumental, gargantuan, surreal.

>>512855009
Everyone in that picture is making 200k/yr+ minimum. I think that's a Facebook office.

It was from the open office concept era that big tech was trying for a little bit, they've scaled it back to more normal looking offices now.
That aside there are breakout rooms if you want to chill on your own but these open offices are to foster a collaborative environment.

>>512841841
>AHHHH I'M HECKIN' GAINFULLY EMPLOYED IM GOING INSAAAAAAAANE
boomers were such weak faggots. imagine if they had to deal with their entire offices being moved over to India or the Philippines, or other bullshit that PE firms pull to squeeze every last cent out of their company

>>512845880
see
>>512846195
You've posted a video of the girls in the typing pool (they are listening to Dictaphone recordings kids, not Spotify). A way for women to do useful work in an office environment while waiting to get married and basically a sort of supermarket for getting wifed up.
Yeah, its a vision of hell alright.

>>512841975
imagine the smell and the noise, ugh.

>>512841975
Peak Jew daycare.

>>512854890
that, but mostly people made 3x then what they make now. (in real dollars adjusted for cost of living, homemaking and family, needs of retirement, etc.)

>>512841975
The "Open" office concept was to mitigate chronic masturbation, a know problem that plague the cubicle era of office floor planning.