The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-04-29

patrons will have to wait longer for
their numbers than when there are
but few calls.
1t doesn't do the patrons any good
to shake their hooks when calling up
central. They will have to wait any,
way until we have time to make their
connections for them. Shaking the
phone hook does not reach central's
ears until after she has connected. If
you shake your hook after she has
connected your line, however, she
hears you at once and it calls her at
tention to you,
Zine Is Busy"
Some people think that it is easier
for central to say the lines busy than
it is for her to connect the lines. This
Is wrong impression. Before central
can say the lines busy she must con-
meet the lines and try them out. This
in itself is just as much work as to
connect the lines for the parties to
hold their conversation. In all my ex-
perience as an operator l have never
heard a central say the line Is busy
without first trying out the lines.
st would not be to her best inter-
ests to try to shirk her work in that
way, for she would still have the pa
iron on her hands. A centrals ambl-
ton is to have her board clear and
the people telling each other their
troubles instead of telling them to
her
"Centrals do their best to keep
their boards clear. When one central
is busy and the operator next to her
is not so busy, the second operator al
ways helps her. This is called team
work and is very often resorted to.
BY this system an operator is able to
help out the lady on either side of her
at the board.
People are sometimes greatly
fooled when they think that they are
flirting with central. The chances are
that they are chattering with some
other party on the line. Some one
on the line will pretend they are CEN
trail and start a Filtration and the
party thinks they have started cage
with one of the girls at the exchange.
Central does not know anything
about this conversation because it
does not show up on the board.
People should get ready before
they start talking over the phone.
Many of them pick up the phone be-
fore they even have their number.
Sometimes they will pick up the phone
and start talking to some one else in
the room, and do not hear when CEN
trail answers.
"Such things are very annoying to
central, for they take up much of her
time, which is very valuable, espe-
cially when she is busy.
Men on an average are better sub
scribers than women. They are more
businesslike and as a rule speak
more distinctly. Women are more apt
to be impatient in the use OF the
phone. The girl who remains at a
certain station for any length of time
becomes accustomed to her subscrib-
ers and learns their particular faults
or virtues considered from centraIs
point of view.
The Pleasant Patron.
IAN operator will work hard to
please a subscriber whom she has
found to be reasonable in the use of
the phone. While she will comply
strictly with the rules of the company
in her work for all the subscribers
who are finding fault.
I'VE like our work. After you have
grown accustomed to it so that the
more mechanical part of the work
does not bother you, you come to like
it. There is always something new,
some new experience. The work will
not make a girl nervous, as many sup
pose. Under the present system il
girl is not nervous before she goes
into the exchange, the work will not
make her so. If she is inclined to be
nervous before going into the office,
however, it is apt to make her worse.
The modern mechanical devices save
nerves."