English For Secretaries 1979

English for Secretaries: presumably part of a series of late 70s textbooks aimed squarely at the modern woman.  Other titles include English for Air Hostesses and English for Glamour Models.

Hiring policy explained...

 Why Mad Men UK never really took off.

 Just a normal part of a busy secretary's job; writing obituaries for your dead boss.  Okay, I can buy that...

 ... but correcting the Personnel Manager because he can't remember a thing about the guy?  That's a bit of a stretch..

 "It's a gramophone?"
"No, it's a pen"
"SHIT! I was going to say pen!"

Companies had significantly lower expectations of new employees in the 1970s.

(coincidentally this is virtually identical to the first lesson in the standard Japanese high school English textbook)

 Note to potential secretaries; you may be sexually harassed to the point where you feel you have no choice but to have an affair with your boss.  At least if the lunatic who spread these limericks throughout this textbook is to be believed.

 Your only ticket out of this miserable career before retirement?

Oh Jesus.