Office Etiquette (1950)

A young woman enters the job market and learns from others how to behave in an office. The "do's and don'ts" sequence is one of the more memorable in the Secretarial Film genre.

Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 1950
• 1950s
• women
• social guidance
• clerical work
• office
• stenographers
• secretaries
• workplace politics
• vintage
• ephemera

[supertrouper]

it's true many college people don't want to be just doing office work. Even if high school people get office work jobs, the pay is lower and very little chance of promotion because a college person will get the promotion. today most office support workers especially the younger generation have college education. mainly the older having many years experience are doing office work with no college education, but even many of those older folks are now going to college to keep their jobs.

[supertrouper]

it depends on the employers. however a lot of office support positions ask for college degrees these days. There are still some office positions requiring a high school diploma, but a lot of college people with also work experience are applying for those jobs too especially in this bad economy that employers are preferring them over high school people. The only way to get into office work positions without college is being older and having so many years of experience.

[GINGERALER]

@supertrouper not true. People with a Bachelor's probably don't want to be stuck in an 'office job' and you don't need one to work in an office; A high school diploma is sufficient for many office jobs and to be an admin assistant, a certificate is all that's needed.

[supertrouper]

Back in the 1950s, having a high school diploma was already enough for doing office work and it was a very extremely pink collar job at the time. Nowadays, a Bachelor's degree has become the new academic standard to be able to have an office work job and most clerical related workers hold college degrees.

[kissy28c]

omg office work before computers. :)

[chinookking97]

The ACME printing company! I love it...

[Homewrecker47]

Surprising! There are actually a few black extras in this one!

[nanlisa]

I would say up until the 1980's, there were secretarial training schools. And there were even secretarial courses in high schools.

Nowadays, and this is my personal opinion, they have gone the way of the dinosaur.Tye typewriter, shorthand, and dictation is gone. Everything in the office is now automated. And secretaries are now referred to as "administrative assistants. Come to think of it, there's very few office support jobs around today. Everything is either in health care or high tech.

[imajika2]

The "do and don't" list is hilarious.

[CofuciusSays]

I am really enjoying these old educational films, lol. But seriously, I am.