February 12, 2005
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Amazing how things have changed in the workplace, at least as compared with the goings-on in the Hepburn/Tracy movie, Desk Set.
Drinking champagne on the job to the point of being inebriated?
And that Christmas office party!
Drinking, dancing, and canoodling to a shocking degree.
Actually, do you suppose those office parties ever existed outside of the imaginations of writers?
Spencer Tracy plays the part of a man who is evaluating the reference department of a company to see if the job can be performed by what was called “an electronic brain”….IOW, a computer. Katherine Hepburn, the head of said department, reassured one of the employees (Joan Blondell) there’s no way any electronic brain could possibly do their job, as there’s too many cross-references.
Quaint. That’s what it was. Positively quaint.
