THE TELEPHONE OPERATOR.
[to the editob-J To be a Telephone Operator in normal times requires the patience Job. and it Teally is wonderful i hat the Government is able to' ecure anyone at all to take up this » ;ry trvxng work of everlastingly endeavouring to give satisfaction to . general public. The constant encuiry of the operator to the subTiber of, “Number please” 10,000 : lines a day, and the usual gruff reoonse, but very often without the . /[ease, must be extremely, nerve icking and it is veiy gratifying in-] ■ l ied under the circumstances to - . ote what cheerful dispositions the , >erators as a rule possess. .Ihe] i-üblic have been asked to retrain’ i om using the telephone unless* on i reretit business, yet, it would suri rise a good many to learn that, /. - en now with the influenza epidemic , its height, scores of thoughtless -übseribers lift off their receiver ■ .erelv to enquire “the tune, Surely I b a time like- the present, with the lenhone staff depicted owing to ,ie ravages of the epidemic and ihoso who are carrying on doing ,out three times the ordinary work ,d going at fever heat to do it. the ■ iiilic should realise this and assist , lc =taff by using the telephone as l.ttie as possible.--! am, etc, SUBSCRIBER.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 301, 22 November 1918, Page 3
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214THE TELEPHONE OPERATOR. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 301, 22 November 1918, Page 3
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