Different kind of engineering, joined big blue in Newcastle as a new graduate trainee Systems Engineer in September 1977. Initial salary, £3100 per year, monthly paid on 6th of each month. Went up to 3410 per year the following month as part of a company wide 10% productivity bonus, (the only kind of pay rise allowed by the Labour government at the time).
Holiday started at 20 days plus bank Holidays per year.
While I can't really complain about personnel policies since then, the overall direction got less generous from then on, as Z once said, it really went downhill from the time Personnel changed to Human Resources.
I stayed for 42 years so it can't have been all bad.
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Old people reminiscing - holidays new
Old people reminiscing - holidays new