ivan 2:19 Wed Feb 23
The City in the 90's
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I was just thinking about the culture of working in the city and whether it has changed ?
i used to do IT Support in the 90's at various banks and many lunchtimes were spent in the local pubs quite often not returning to the office until the next day.
Even sometimes attending strip bars , i think one was called the metropolitan
Now i live and work in Sussex and popping to M&S for a sandwich is as rock and roll as it gets
i know a lot of you guys work in the city have things calmed down or does the carnage continue most day's ?
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Northern Sold
2:33 Wed Feb 23
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Sounds like it's shit now.... I know people that have left now as the only reason they went to work as it was a great social life !! MATE runs a team in a pension firm... they got a strict NO DRINKING culture during lunch hours... he has even been ordered by his boss to troll the local pubs to seek out his employees and round them up... fuck that... missus worked up there in Llyods insurance Building (think she was one of the first girls to actually allowed to work on a box!!) from late 80's until 2001... she loved her time up there... was up there last week (thursday) and pubs seemed busy and by mates that have gone back they reckon the city is picking up again.
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roltrader
2:35 Wed Feb 23
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oh, how things have changed !?
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ivan
2:42 Wed Feb 23
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i remember when they introduced staropranem to our local At that point it was actually safer to stay away from the office for fear of the bosses seeing how hammered you were
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Manuel
2:42 Wed Feb 23
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I have wondered this myself as the 90's was my 'hey day' in the city. I suspect it is no longer the same mainly due to culture changes, etc. Use to have some cracking nights out in the city back then, but hated the train journey home, mind.
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ivan
2:44 Wed Feb 23
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yep , ended up in Shoeburyness a few times
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Jim79
2:53 Wed Feb 23
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Defo not the same as it was in the 90's but then I've changed since then. In the 90's I was starting out in the city so from being an 18 yr old in to my 20's I loved the social life and drinking culture. Im now in my 40's and have 4 daughters at home so im not focused on drinking either at lunch time or after work. Im sure some people still hit the pubs regularly but the youngsters in our office dont seem to drink at lunchtimes but tend to save it up for a Wednesday or Thursday night.
Also im pretty sure the strip club you are talking about is called Metropolis in Bethnal Green, too far from the city during a lunchtime so Browns was usually the venue of choice back then!!!
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ivan
2:58 Wed Feb 23
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that was it ,on the hackney rd
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Manuel
3:01 Wed Feb 23
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Jim - Links to daughters??
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Jim79
3:02 Wed Feb 23
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Ivan, in one. Still there to even though I haven't been in decades but drove past it two weeks ago.
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Jim79
3:03 Wed Feb 23
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Manuel - they are 13, 11, 7 and 2, you wanna think again about the link comment before the paedo police come through the site and mark you as a nonce for all eternity!!!
swt
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Lato
3:33 Wed Feb 23
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ivan
Are think of the Metropolitan Pub that used to be on the corner of Farringdon Road and Clerkenwell Road?
That was my local for 2 years before we relocated to Curtain Road!
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Lato
3:35 Wed Feb 23
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* Are you thinking of*
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Takashi Miike
4:04 Wed Feb 23
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"Even sometimes attending strip bars"
The Crown & Shuttle at lunchtime was an experience :.)
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bill green
4:28 Wed Feb 23
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It was even better in the 80's beer was cheaper and i was younger
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Far Cough
4:41 Wed Feb 23
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No way would I get hammered of a lunch time in my trade, printing, unless you want to get your hand caught in a press, which happened to me once but not through drink, just stupidity on my part, still the Morphine was great with a stay in the hospital as a bonus
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ivan
4:42 Wed Feb 23
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Lato 3:33
no , it was the Metropolis on the Hackney rd.
Used to have to get a cab back to the office
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Toe Rag
5:28 Wed Feb 23
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The GRIFFIN if you were Clerkenwell/Holborn way.
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Charoo
5:42 Wed Feb 23
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I worked on the spot cable desk when I left school in late 90’s - my interview was in Gow’s wine bar on a Friday afternoon, it was 2 hours of drinking Bollinger and orange juice. I got the job, walked out and told them I was going to the pub to meet my mates, I actually got over the road to Liverpool Street station and was in a world of trouble.
Got my way back to my Mums and threw up all over the street over the wall.
Apparently the guy doing the interview went back and was so pissed they had to send him home too.
As far as the firm new I went down the pub.
I turned up on my first day and had a reputation as the 17 year old who could drink the grown ups under the table.
Fuck me I drunk some that first month especially as I joined in December.
I remember my Dad having to get me a credit card as I was to young, I used to go into the Lord Abercrombie have 2 beers and £50 cash back and they would do me a bill for drinks, used to put all that through expenses.
Also took my mates out one night on the card, did nearly £1500 and put it through as entertaining clients.
Got pulled in and hauled over the coals rotten for that, but they paid it as it showed I had some bollocks!
The fucking story’s from that era are unreal and what went on before is night and day until today.
Wouldn’t want to do it now but pleased I got to when I did.
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cup of tea
5:51 Wed Feb 23
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Started working in finance in the city in 1994. Our day was work until 12.30ish then 3 hours at the pub getting pissed then back to work to sit there and do nothing until 5pm. In my prime it would also be beers after work EVERY night and sometimes involved all nighters and back to the office to sleep.
Fridays were always pub lunchtime and then MINSTERS or CHARLIES in Tower Hill after work until 2am or sometimes BROWNS strip club until the small hours and then brick lane for a curry or salt beef bagel
I'd say this behaviour carried on until early 2000s and then HR tightened up and people started getting more stressed with work and life in general. Soon after came marriage and kids and things were never the same again.
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