Word: switchboards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first arm to rise would belong to Ernestine, the Mussolini of the switchboard. "This is the telephone company," she might announce. "We are not subject to city, state or federal legislation. We are omnipotent." Or: "Here at the telephone company we handle 84 billion calls a year, serving everyone from Presidents and kings to the scum of the earth...
ACTWU is also trying to get people in union offices all over New York to tie up the Stevens switchboard with telephone calls. Says Campaign Director Ray Rogers: "We want to get so many phone calls going into the company that they can't make phone calls out." The union has allotted $1.5 million a year for the next ten years for the Stevens campaign, and has a pledge of full support from...
...Detroit man files for a loan with the Dial Financial Corp.: $600 to pay his overdue fuel bill. The Georgia Power Co.'s Atlanta switchboard hums with a record 70,000-plus calls a month, mostly from hard-pressed customers complaining about the jump in utility charges. In St. Louis, Cleo Starks, 40, marches down to the Laclede Gas Co., her $300 fuel bill wadded in her fist, and punches the daylights out of Inez Paoletti at the customer service desk. "I don't know what happened," Starks told police. "My mind just snapped...
...early as 7, and stay as late as 5:30. Under some Flextime plans, workers choose a starting and a quitting time and have to stick to it. Under others they can, with their bosses' permission, come in at different times each day. Says Katy Westlund, a switchboard operator for Hewlett-Packard, which has adopted Flextime for employees at all 19 of its U.S. manufacturing plants: "You just tell your supervisor the day before when you're coming in in the morning." Nor do Flextime employees always have to work the same number of hours each day. At Northwestern Mutual...
...peeling some squash for dinner. Several times she stepped back inside the den just to hear the names. Amy Carter burst into her father's study at one point, and Carter, with great delight, showed her his new white speaker telephone that plugged directly into the White House switchboard. She immediately called a neighborhood friend on the phone, and Carter and Jordan watched with amusement as she pretended she needed a school assignment...