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<blockquote data-quote="AppleCori" data-source="post: 734508" data-attributes="member: 16024"><p>We studied telephone switchboard operators in our history, and I was interested to find that the first ones, in the late 1800s, were teenage boys. Apparently, it didn’t work well, as they were not generally kind and patient with the callers, and would sometimes play jokes on them. </p><p></p><p>They tried a female out, and within hours hired her sister as well. From then on, they started hiring females, and didn’t allow males on the job till the 70s, with the EOOC rulings.</p><p></p><p>Just a bit of interesting trivia....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AppleCori, post: 734508, member: 16024"] We studied telephone switchboard operators in our history, and I was interested to find that the first ones, in the late 1800s, were teenage boys. Apparently, it didn’t work well, as they were not generally kind and patient with the callers, and would sometimes play jokes on them. They tried a female out, and within hours hired her sister as well. From then on, they started hiring females, and didn’t allow males on the job till the 70s, with the EOOC rulings. Just a bit of interesting trivia.... [/QUOTE]
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