Rebellion Behind the Typewriter

Well, I said I wanted to find out more about the Nasty Secretary Liberation Front.

It turns out they were a precursor to Processed World magazine, a publication so shockingly similar to New Escapologist in spirit that you’d think we’d based New Escapologist on it. We didn’t. I found the archive of Processed World about four years ago and I’ve been meaning to do some sort of deep dive project on it ever since, though I am not yet sure how that will manifest itself.

The Nasty Secretaries were also known as the Union of Concerned Commies and the people behind it went directly on to form Processed World.

Their first publication (1980) was a single A4 sheet called Innvervoice #1, a pun on “invoice” and it details the costs of various things you have to do at work, almost Christie Malry-style.

There are many references to it online but it took some digging to actually find a scan of it. I found it via the Wayback Machine in the end, and here it is, for all to see, back on the actual Web:

You can click to make it a bit bigger if you want to.

The cost of “transportation to and from work (unpaid)” is “your leisure time”. The cost of a raise is “1 brown nose.”

I love the “nonsense” rubberstamp. I should have some of those made.

This is the reverse:

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