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Yeah I've been in civil service

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for 40 years . Uh Just this past

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february is around february 17th . I

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had my 40 year anniversary . Yeah . And

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I started at a right path

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and 1979

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as a student summer higher . Our high

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school had a program and I Applied

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for the position and got that in

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1994 . Um We had a BRAC

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and are the defensive electronic supply

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center in Dayton was hit and we've got

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put on the BRAC . So we ended up

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merging in 19 june actually june in

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1996 we merged with what was the

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Defence Construction supply center and

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then we became the defense supply

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center at D . C . I

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was a GS two step three and I hired

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on as a key punch operator

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and was in that position for about six

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months and went into

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um offices , general office duties and

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file clerk . and then I

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applied in 1989 and became

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In the buying field , which at that

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time it was a position 5-9 position

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and you did not need college . All you

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needed was a 24 hour business credit

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hours . And the only people then at

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that time that had GS . 11 positions um

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with management or supervisors . A key

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punch operator at that time was well

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you would The buyers or

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the clerical people at that time would

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um when they did their awards they

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would had a like a huge sheet of paper .

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It was like 11 x 16 and you would put

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all your information on that like the

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company name and everything . It had

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all sorts of questions and then it

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would come to the key punch operator

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and you would type all that information

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onto key punch cards . And when you get

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done typing all that information on the

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key punch cards . Then it was like a

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huge , it was probably a 12 in box .

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And it would have all these key punch

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cards on it , which was just like

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probably Mm Maybe five x 7

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cards . And then you would take them

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after they got done . And then you

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would take him to these huge humongous

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computers that we had then and you

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would run it on there . And that's how

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the awards were done . Whereas today ,

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you just doing all my computer . When

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we first got the first computer we had ,

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we had like one computer and then you

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had , everybody had to schedule a time .

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So you could go and work on that

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computer . And that was a blessing

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because otherwise you had to do things

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by typewriter . And if you made a

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mistake on a typewriter , it was

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terrible because you had to make three

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copies of everything you did . So if

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you made a mistake , you had to correct

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all three copies or start all over .

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When I first started , the deaths were

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huge gray metal

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deaths that weighed a ton and they were

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all lined up in rows . They were and

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you were all just crowded altogether ,

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just row after row after row . And

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numerous people at that time just

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smoked really , really heavy in there .

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So it was real smokey . And the

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buildings we worked in didn't have air

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conditioning and you had to work with

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these huge , big like airplane fans

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that they had close to the ceiling and

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they would just blow to circulate the

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air . So you just worked in stale

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air buildings . It was worth . Uh huh .

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I had a lady supervisor and she was

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very adamant that women wore dresses

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with pantyhose and pumps . You could

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not come to work and slacks it all . So

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you had to and they had the length of

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the dress had to be a certain length ,

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you couldn't have short dresses , they

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had to be like knee length or below .

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And but so yeah , it

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was it was hard for winning back then

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for me . It's just I I love it

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because it's an equal opportunity

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employer . Um I say that

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because whatever if if you're a GS 11

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and you are a woman or if you are a man

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and you get the same equal pay no

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matter what , you know . Um Whereas

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outside in the private industry that

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men may not happen and even may not

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happen today , men might still make

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more money than women . So I think

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that's one of the major issues why I

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stayed . I think we have done a

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wonderful job with supporting the

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troops and helping all

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that we can out in the field with the

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people that need us . So , and I hope

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that we can continue on