*this is another one where I’m not 100% sure about the translation. I saw “replaces”, “substitute”, “replaces [someone]”. I picked substitutes because it seems clearer.
*this is another one where I’m not 100% sure about the translation. I saw “replaces”, “substitute”, “replaces [someone]”. I picked substitutes because it seems clearer.
This was a pretty female dominated job btw.
Funny bit from the wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchboard_operator
My grandmother did this! She talked about it occasionally. Wish I had heard her more.
My mother also worked at a switch board. When she moved into hospitality, and the guests needed to make a call, the switch board operators immediately clocked her as having worked there. My mother presented the information about the outgoing call request exactly as the operator preferred to hear it to quickly make the connection.
I feel you about wishing you had more time with your grandmother. I was far too young to even know what questions I could have asked, and it would have been so interesting to hear about the occupation during WW2 and the early post war years.
Not to mention the fact I miss her in general, she was the sweetest lady a grandson could ever ask for ❤️
Lmaaooo. 1870’s teen boys fucking around with whoever called just because they felt like it.
There’s a more unfortunate take to that as well, but I like to think they were pulling running refrigerator and mike rotch jokes the whole time instead.
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Found the more detailed source;