Yeah, some of them are pretty cool too. I have now met two of the folk who worked on UNIX (one of the men with articles on wikipedia and one of the women who did the heavy lifting. men didn't really do a lot of coding in the punchcard days, they stayed in the C-suite, according to my friend who did the punchcards at bell labs. when i see [name redacted] next, i'm going to have to tease him and ask him what he thinks about that. knowing him, he'll say it's all true)
Ha, I had a bunch of family who worked at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark, NJ, many, many years back, and beer on breaks was obviously a thing. What a time to be alive.
I'm not sure if you're referring to the Newark one, which just closed, or if you're somewhere else that also has one close. Strange thing, but that is time, I guess.
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TaterTot@piefed.social · 88 pts · 25d
So uhhh, the oldest Boomers would have been 14 at the end of the 50's. This would have been a Greatest and Silent generation thing.
And given what they lived through... well I get wanting a whiskey dispenser at work...
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 25d
The cigarette vending machine is not pictured, just to the right
lyrial@anarchist.nexus · 16 pts · 25d
Those were a thing well into the 2000's. I paid that 90% markup many times in bars in my 20s.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 4 pts · 25d
Still a thing in Italy, many bars and tobacco shops have them
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
and yet selling loose singles is somehow a felony here
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 25d
Still a thing in Germany. Without such a steep markup too
Found just randomly on the street
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d
I remember seeing one in a bar in Ohio in 2015 lmao
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d
There's a vending machine in the bar where I work that sells chips and cigarettes.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 25d
so where's my joint dispenser at work?
oh right. self employed. i'll get right on that, boss.
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org · 3 pts · 25d
People have no idea about boomers and do not know what they even are, but have the wildest opinions about them
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 22 pts · 25d
Boomers is 1945 to 1965.
Plenty of them out there walking around.
It's legal to speak to them.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Yeah, some of them are pretty cool too. I have now met two of the folk who worked on UNIX (one of the men with articles on wikipedia and one of the women who did the heavy lifting. men didn't really do a lot of coding in the punchcard days, they stayed in the C-suite, according to my friend who did the punchcards at bell labs. when i see [name redacted] next, i'm going to have to tease him and ask him what he thinks about that. knowing him, he'll say it's all true)
they're both boomers, btw. fun folk
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 25d
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
Isn't the speed limit 65?
Friego@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 25d
Littering and?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
creating a nuisance
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 25d
Aneb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
Thanks for the info, I will not follow. I skip that generation and talk to the silent gen and gen x.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 3 pts · 25d
Got it.
You think you're too cool to talk to Cher or Dolly Parton.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Other way around. One day I'll be cool enough to shine Dolly's spurs
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 2 pts · 25d
Nice save, kid.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Oh that wasn't me. Any time is a good time for Dolly worship tho
solidheron@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 25d
Heck yeah. Time to go drive a fork lift
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 25d
Ha, I had a bunch of family who worked at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark, NJ, many, many years back, and beer on breaks was obviously a thing. What a time to be alive.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 25d
they just closed our AB brewery :(
i coulda been stapelfahrer klaus... or more likely stapelfahrer klaused
Dozzi92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
I'm not sure if you're referring to the Newark one, which just closed, or if you're somewhere else that also has one close. Strange thing, but that is time, I guess.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 25d
Fairfield, CA just closed one too
MrSelfDestruct@piefed.zip · 39 pts · 25d
This was their mental health care.
GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 25d
Still better than what I get
terranoid@lemmy.cafe · 30 pts · 25d
I've been to startups where the liquor cabinet is open, and everyone was young and party happy.
They pay accordingly. It's the young persons pizza party
elvith@feddit.org · 33 pts · 25d
https://xkcd.com/323/
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 25d
The royal navy had a similar method to maintain morale and keep sailors happy.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 25d
Until Black Tot Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rum_ration
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 25d
You may have gotten the lash, but hey, you did get rum and sodomy too
HikingVet@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 25d
We had it in the RCN as well, until they stopped the tot. Pretty sure we just followed the brits on that.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 3 pts · 25d
rum, sodomy, and the lash
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 25d
No. They were loyal because there was a pension.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 24d
And they weren't getting paid less than dirt after 10 years.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 25d
boozestraps
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 25d
I heard my cities' shipyard used to get a truckload of beer delivered twice a day
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 25d
In the 1980s, drinking on the job at the brewery I worked at was normal.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 25d
JUST LIKE YOUR MOM
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
She's a class Y lady
qualia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 24d
They had a beer tap but accounting told them they were losing money from all the bathroom breaks.
bloogoose@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 25d