This was the 20th Century

( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 12:42, 1 reply)

Doesn't make it any less strange a boast.
Or maybe it was so shit a job, and so badly paid, that having an ashtray was the highlight.

Meh. I remember spluttering my way through seminars full of smokers, and I could barely see my examiners during my viva for the smoke in the room. I don't miss those days one bit.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 13:22, closed)

I used to work for a Korean company 20 years ago
There was an ashtray on every desk and a plastic 'spitoon' beaker into which they would regularly cough up phlegm into every 5 minutes or so.

It really was like living the dream back then.
(wrigglesworth, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 14:11, closed)

You should have told them that you sleep with the fan on.
They'd treat you like some kind of god.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 13 Oct 2014, 14:36, closed)