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Mar. 27th, 2016 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotSpending the night at Gramma's. She's getting to the point where Mom thinks she's going to have to come by once a week to do the laundry and take her shopping - the basement stairs are finally being acknowledged as too much. We also did a little cleaning: I'm taking home a small letter holder made by my great-grandfather and a couple of old mechanical pencils.
Here's a good story: when Gramma was working as a secretary at the bank right out of high school, she was paid $500 a year.* (This was in the late 1940s, early 1950s.) One of her duties was to type up the monthly reports her boss wrote. One month he was out of the office and so she put the report together on her own, then delivered it to the other boss guys(?). After their meeting, they realized the guy who was supposed to have written the report was out of town, and she fessed up that she'd written it, and they doubled her salary!
Then the in-house bookkeepers found out when they did the next week's paychecks, and they told everyone else and apparently her life was made miserable for about a week. (It wasn't said, but I'm guessing that there were allegations of s!keeping around.) So ... there's that.
* I'm suspicious of this number because that would be 25c an hour, but it's what she said so I'll run with it. Maybe she meant a month? Going by a currency converter that seems like an extremely high jump in salary. Man, I don't know.
Here's a good story: when Gramma was working as a secretary at the bank right out of high school, she was paid $500 a year.* (This was in the late 1940s, early 1950s.) One of her duties was to type up the monthly reports her boss wrote. One month he was out of the office and so she put the report together on her own, then delivered it to the other boss guys(?). After their meeting, they realized the guy who was supposed to have written the report was out of town, and she fessed up that she'd written it, and they doubled her salary!
Then the in-house bookkeepers found out when they did the next week's paychecks, and they told everyone else and apparently her life was made miserable for about a week. (It wasn't said, but I'm guessing that there were allegations of s!keeping around.) So ... there's that.
* I'm suspicious of this number because that would be 25c an hour, but it's what she said so I'll run with it. Maybe she meant a month? Going by a currency converter that seems like an extremely high jump in salary. Man, I don't know.
