Question Author
fredpuli43
I'm with you on that...!
In my first job (I started work in October 1985) we actually had a typing pool. If we needed to send a memo around the company, we had to dictate it using a dictaphone, which would be walked up to the pool. The memo was the typed and sent back to you for correction/approval.
You would send it back, and the the corrected version would come back to you. If it was okay, a yellow copy would go into one filing system, a red copy into a another, you woulda keep the green copy in your own personal folder, and the top copy would be submitted in a brown folder which would be walked around the office and signed off as each person read it.
All this would take about four days.
Today, if I need to relay a message...I type an email and send it to the department. Takes about 90 seconds on average.