A similar issue with a phone company lead to the first creation of an automatic telephone exchange[1]: >Strowger, an undertaker, was motivated to invent an aut

A similar issue with a phone company lead to the first creation of an automatic telephone exchange[1]: >Strowger, an undertaker, was motivated to invent an automatic telephone exchange after having difficulties with the local telephone operators, one of whom was the wife of a competitor. He was said to be convinced that she, as one of the manual telephone exchange operators, was sending calls "to the undertaker" to her husband. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch