“HELLO GIRLS”
THEIR WORK IN LONDON LONDON, January 6. After months of exhaustive training on a dummy exchange and on probationary wages of 10s a week, London’s 7000 telephone girls now handle 200 calls an hour. They keep 17 calls each going simultaneously and memorise 200 official replies for every conceivable emergency, which must be delivered in an attractive voice with pronunciation in accordance with regulations. Their maximum wage is £2 18s 6d for a 48-hour week, and in view of their limitless patience and invariable politeness, it is no wonder that their marriage rate is one a day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21543, 15 January 1932, Page 7
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