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12. ATT - not my ATT..we had values, and mission statements, loyalty from company..

Sun Sep 1, 2019, 12:08 PM

Sep 2019

In 2005, SBC purchased AT&T for $16 billion. After this purchase, SBC adopted the better-known AT&T name and brand, with the original AT&T Corp. still existing as the long-distance landline subsidiary of the merged company. The current AT&T claims the original AT&T Corp.'s history (dating to 1885) as its own.

Seems SBC has instilled their lack of values they always had..I remember a customer from FL, was not happy with me, because I wouldn't take calls off his bill, he went over my head to my boss (was management at the time, was on a takeover call, unruly customer)..come to find out, he was a SBC employee..boy, did he catch it..talk about backfire..

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Happy Emma Nutt Day! The world's first female telephone operator starts her new job 141 yrs ago [View all] Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 OP

Thanks for posting. I didn't know this history. bobbieinok Sep 2019 #1

Neither did I... Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #2

What horrible parents--their last name is Hogg, so they name daughter Ima bobbieinok Sep 2019 #6

Impressive, beautiful, completely mis-named! Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #11

Here's a Bell System film about early operators. The intro talks about Nutt. PSPS Sep 2019 #3

Thanks!! Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #4

ATT - not my ATT..we had values, and mission statements, loyalty from company.. asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #12

Like when Verizon bought NYNEX (previously NY Telephone) Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #13

Yes, bifurcation 1983, divestiture 1984 - I went with the Mothership ATT, we had a choice.. asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #16

My wife's great aunt was a telephone operator in those days, until she retired in the 'fifties. hunter Sep 2019 #21

Thanks for posting Dennis! smirkymonkey Sep 2019 #5

Granted, the numbers were 2-4 digits back then 😉 Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #8

So much history..thanks for a walk down memory lane..I wanted to know if there are still asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #17

I'm guessing "party lines" are also a thing of the past... Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #19

Good question..party line requests, it was cheaper..but we had to tell customers asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #20

My great grandma's house had a wooden phone on the wall with a hand crank. hunter Sep 2019 #22

A pic at link shows the long bank of positions from 1943..I worked at one in 1964 (still in HS) asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #7

God forbid the godless commies mis-direct your call to Emma Goldman! Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #10

That was one of the funniest skits..for sure "one-ringy-dingy" asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #15

So even back then they knew to keep young males away from social media. flor-de-jasmim Sep 2019 #9

Great story, thanks! Interesting, funny, infuriating Hortensis Sep 2019 #14

You are so right..although, I'm not complaining..was a great PT job, still in HS, 17 years old, asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #18

:) I've been enjoying your look back into that era. Hortensis Sep 2019 #25

I was briefly a telephone operator at Southern Bell in the late '60s. Vinca Sep 2019 #23

Was LBJ on the other end? Dennis Donovan Sep 2019 #26

LOL - I don't think so. I don't remember the other party. Nut sacks I'd remember. Vinca Sep 2019 #28

My grandmother was a telephone operator for Bell LittleWoman Sep 2019 #24

Your story of your grandmother, as an operator who had to sleep at the exchange asiliveandbreathe Sep 2019 #29

interesting post AllaN01Bear Sep 2019 #27

Last night on Johnny Carson rerun, he mentioned her in his monologue. GreatCaesarsGhost Sep 2019 #30