On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:11:23 GMT, Gunner wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:24:46 -0400, Gary Coffman
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 01:48:22 GMT, Gunner wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:14:13 -0700, RainLover
wrote:
The "haves" always love to think that if THEY have a good job and enough money
and savings, EVERYONE should be able to have that and the 'have nots' are just
lazy.

Some truth to that..and some not truth. Makes a fellow wonder where
all the switchboard operators for the phone companies went. Were they
executed when the COs were automated?

They went to work in defense plants. The timing worked out so that
the expansion of jobs for women due to the men going off to war
started about the time the phone systems became fully automatic.

Gary

Really? The CO here in my town went automated in 1985. Which war was
that?

The bulk of the nation's phone system went to direct dial prior to WWII.
There were a very few rural areas whose phone systems still used
telephone operators to make connections later than that, but the
numbers involved are tiny.

Gary