1987

[NorthernDave]

Ah, 1987! Happy days.

Had a 6th form field trip to the Isle of Arran where after a hard day looking at rock formations I discovered the delights of fine whisky and the much less delightful hangover the next morning...
And spent most of the summer watching Kylie in Neighbours

 

[Donger]

Got dragged on to the dance floor by a drunken colleague at the office Christmas party that year.. Ended up marrying her within a year and we are still going strong. That makes it a good year to my way of thinking.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Happy 30th, @Donger

 

[classic33]

Happy 30th, @Donger

That'd be next year!

 

[Gravity Aided]

Starting in early. This is Cycle Chat, gotta keep ahead of the peloton.

 

[Biff600]

Either you were a really keen ship spotter or you were in the Andrew.

The latter.

The Baku?
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Now INS Vikramaditya, with the Indian Navy.

It may well have been, I never saw the carrier, I saw plenty of Russian escort ships and helicopters though...............and it was mightily cold !!

 

[arranandy]

1987 - started as a design engineering trainee with an engineering consultancy in Glasgow. Spent the first 2 weeks practising my block capitals printing on A0 sheets on a drawing board. Nearly jacked it in however I'm glad I didn't. Apart from a brief period of unemployment and having to do a couple of stop gap jobs it has provided me with a good standard of living and the opportunity on several occasions to travel and work in foreign lands - currently working in the Netherlands.
On a sadder note, 1987 was the year my last grandparent died

 

[classic33]

Six weeks spent on 99 hour weeks, over six days, trying to make certain I'd a job having watched it go up in smoke.

That's hours worked, not including breaks or travelling to the new location.

 

[classic33]

The latter.

It may well have been, I never saw the carrier, I saw plenty of Russian escort ships and helicopters though...............and it was mightily cold !!

Like these?

 

[mustang1]

Other things about work in 1987, you had to wear a tie, working hours were rigid and strictly enforced, there was a sports and social club on site where it was quite normal to see some of the senior managers down several pints most lunchtimes, the computer building was no smoking but at all other offices people smoked at their desks, a tea trolley used to come round mid morning and mid afternoon, and even in the computing dept we didn’t have PC’s or even dumb terminals on our desks. Only the managers had a PC, they used it for Gantt charts and the like. Programmers had acces to a bank of dumb terminals, about 1 terminal for every 5 staff, so we had a rota system for using them. So most of your time as a programmer was spent at your computer free desk looking paper printouts scribbling down what you would next do once you got time at a terminal later that day.

Rigid working hours strictly enforced? My god what happened since then.

 

[mustang1]

Six weeks spent on 99 hour weeks, over six days, trying to make certain I'd a job having watched it go up in smoke.

That's hours worked, not including breaks or travelling to the new location.

Blxxdy heck those times must have sucked.

 

[classic33]

Blxxdy heck those times must have sucked.

Actually not too bad. We kept the jobs, having seen them go up in smoke.

 

[Biff600]

Like these?
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Yeah, very similar. I do know I got the mother of all bollockings for mooning at one that was hovering near us !!

 

[classic33]

Yeah, very similar. I do know I got the mother of all bollockings for mooning at one that was hovering near us !!

Kaman in the US & Kamov in the USSR/Rusia tend to be be the twin main rotor companies. No tail rotor required.

 

[Saluki]

Working with horses so in the yard by 5am and last into bed at about 9.30. I was head lass, aged 23 in '87, so always did 'evening stables' whether it was my turn or not. We did have a 3 hour dinner break where we stuffed our faces and then got our heads down for a couple of hours.
I used to get £150 a week, lived in all found and loved every single second.
I miss the place on a day to day basis. I was there 18 years all in all.