What was normal in your workplace in the noughties that would be outrageous now

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My example - all the men going off to continue business meeting at a Stringfellows leaving all the women behind…. Would be the stuff of tribunals nowadays, back then it was 🤷‍♀️

Late 90's, my boarding school only went up to forth form. The fourth form boys were pretty much treated like adults, they'd go to the local pub with some of the teachers and get legless.
No one batted an eyelid.
Teachers also dated 4th/3rd form girls.

Work wise, bosses who behaved as previously mentioned.
Had a director who smoked cigars in his office.
Lots of ogling by male staff, talking/comparing women's bodies, bum pinching etc.

The club where one of my boyfriends lived had a giant female arse with a thong on as its logo.

I think it was called "Cheeks".

My colleague was smoking in her office right up until she retired 2 years ago!

Snogging colleagues when drunk. Today it’s highly frowned on, but then it was just a laugh.

My dad's mates worked in a company that had topless calendars. My dad would make jokes to the women working there like these guys aren't so clever, they forget what tits look like.... all infront of us as kids... all normal. 🤣 I honestly thought nothing of it.

I don't think its less fun because I don't get to measure penises at work, call people racist names, have dnoke fumes in my face, or see tits on a calendar.

It's simply that we socialise less and people wfh. Public services are stretched there's no time for faffing about. Commutes are longer.

Is possible to have a pub lunch or night out without slapping arses. But there's more focus on productivity and people are really stretched at home trying to get back for school runs etc... also we now have an older workforce who party less.

Back in the early 90s, I used to work near A38 Derbyshire which was quite a drive from my house and my car broke down. My BIL helped me get the car to a garage and I think it was in Findern (my memory is a bit hazy), but a lovely village and I was met by 2 mechanics. One like a kindly grandad and the other his son, so lovely and sweet. Gave the impression of family men.

Went inside their workshop and wow it was graphic even in the customer area where women with their children would have called in. The pictures of women in all different positions on their walls was obscene.

Never ever forgot that!

Also at this time of year we used to get sales reps dropping off gifts for their clients and always received a flurry of girly calendars 'for the lads in the warehouse' as I worked in transport logistics.
But one year a rep left the usual calendar and bottles of babycham for the ladies in the office, but he also dropped off a desk diary for Jo in the office. Jo was Joanne and he thought it was a male Joseph.
Poor old Jo came back to find a diary called Eve which had topless women for each month.
When she collared the rep a few months later, he laughed and said oh well pressie for your bloke then!