Posted on Sep 1, 2016
September 1st: Telephonist Fail: Lynn Ferguson
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Emma Mills Nutt (1860–1915) became the world's first female telephone operator on 1 September 1878 when she started working for the Edwin Holmes Telephone Despatch Company (or the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Nutt
https://youtu.be/cogCMK7pjRs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Nutt
https://youtu.be/cogCMK7pjRs
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What is a telephone operator? Kidding, my wife was one for years with Illinois Bell and Southern Bell. Sad to say I was part of the digital revolution of the telephone industry responsible for the demise of the operator position.
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
Just like my job will be going by the wayside in the near future. Fiber optic lines are being placed everywhere here in the DFW area. They just don't hire old school Telephone tech's like me anymore.. I am just happy that I will be able to meet the requirements for retirement in March of 2017.
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MCPO Roger Collins
SGT John " Mac " McConnell - The traditional telco is on the way out. Two things ruining their business model is smart phones and the albatross of an antiquated copper plant.
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
MCPO Roger Collins The only thing keeping my job alive is uverse, DSl, and Tv over that old copper plant. Amazing how it can be done in old pulp plant..
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Is she the one with the nasally voice everyone associates with the old time phone operators? Just wondering where that stereotype came from.
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SGT John " Mac " McConnell
Attitude , no cursing or vulgerness...That's why women were chosen over men.. Men sorta lacked this way back when .... LOL ! Some even today.... Laffs !
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