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[panda1234]

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@Krimpette wrote:

My shorthand days are long behind me, sadly.  However, after reading what posters said who can still read shorthand, I agree with the interpretations of "back to work at the bank".  I'm really impressed with those who knew!!!

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I am impressed with myself for knowing it. 

[The Wisher]

I still use shorthand every day in my work.  I spent many, many years working in a large law firm where the attorney dictated to me all morning and then I had the afternoon to transcribe my notes.

My first guess is:  Back to work at the bank.  My second guess is:  Back to work with the payment.

I love shorthand.  For me it seems it has never left my "old brain".

[NickNack]

The way I would transcribe it would be back to do (I don't know the third word, but it's not how I would write work) with the bank.

[ALRATIBA]

That looks like Gregg shorthand.  I learned Pitman.

[pattypeep]

Wow, did this ever bring back memories. I graduated in 1963, so that was a loooong time ago. I can perfectly envision my teacher and remember that after we graduated he married one of the girls in our class. LOL Anyway, we had to learn to hold the pencil very loosely in our hand and the teacher would walk up behind us and grab at the pencil. If he succeeded in taking it from our hand, we were doing good, if he couldn't we were holding it too tight, according to him. Ahhhh, I loved school. I believe I am the only one in our class that was bawling her eyes out on graduation night. Please don't make me go !

[newjersey]

looks to me like 'back to do something at the bank'

[hip grandma]

I took Greg in high school. It says "back to work at the bank."

[LilacTree]

I learned Gregg in high school and used it in every job until the advent of computers.  Once I had a word processing program at my desk, my bosses would sit down next to me and dictate and I would type as they talked and have the letter printed out as soon as they finished.  They read it, signed it, and I put it in the office mailbox.  Rarely did this process take longer than 10 or 15 minutes.

Compare this to sitting in their offices taking dictation and then having to type it all out for them to read, and usually they were by then on to something else and the letter would sit on their desks for sometimes days before they got around to reading it . . . and then they would want to change it, and I would have to sit and take dictation again . . . and round and round we would go.  Sometimes it took a week to get a letter (or report) out of an office.  I always worked for professionals (lawyers, accountants, doctors, etc., the laziest people on earth).  At least the doctors would dictate to tape and I could type from that.

That said, I still remember steno and until my writing hand got bad, used to use it occasionally for quick notes. 

One of the lost "arts." 

[LilacTree]

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@tends2dogs wrote:

I came across this slip of paper while going through some things and I haven't a clue what it means.

Can anyone help me out??

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I would say "back to work with the bank."

[kelsey17]

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@sugar22 wrote:

It has been YEARS since I took shorthand, but it looks like "back to work at the bank".  Does that make sense?

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I was a stenographer many years back and that is what i read too...."back to work at the bank".....so glad you saw

the same thing..