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Alternatively, treating the “random telephone operator” as a prop and forcing them to be part of your project without consent is troubling.
by slillibri 2y ago
Alternatively, treating the “random telephone operator” as a prop and forcing them to be part of your project without consent is troubling.
- aaaooj 2y agoI do not believe that you are genuinely troubled by this.
- selimthegrim 2y ago[flagged]
- asdafasad 2y agoI mean... I'm not troubled by it, but as a person who has worked in a job where I received direct calls from the public that I had no choice but to deal with it, I am definitely annoyed on behalf of the operator. It's not the worst thing in the world, but... wow, what an annoying day. Can you imagine six months later, you hear your most annoying day at work played on an album?!
- Zanni 2y agoAs a former telephone operator from this era who spent most shifts frantically bubbling scantrons as business men rattled off their calling card numbers and call numbers at lighting speed, I would have been delighted by this break in routine.
- jonah 2y ago> frantically bubbling scantrons I want to know more! I assumed numbers were entered directly on a 10-key. Were they scantrons as a paper record, as an asynchronous way to enter the data, or?
- Zanni 2y agoIt was a paper record of every (paid) phone call. This was in the 80s before the switch to digital. The front side had the origin and destination numbers, the back side had the calling card number. Also--we didn't use a 10-key! Our keypad was 2x5 rather than 3x3, and inverted (low numbers at the top).
- fsckboy 2y ago"one ringy dingy... two ringy dingies" - Zanni probably for the uninitiated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4__Nz5HWY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT4__Nz5HWY
- prepend 2y agoIt’s their job. I “forced” them to be part of my project of making collect calls hundreds of times.
- unethical_ban 2y agoIn the time, and given the nature, it is harmless. Certainly compared to modern attempts at pranks, advertised to the world instantly on SocMed.
- DoneWithAllThat 2y agoExcessive empathy is not a virtue.
- hex3 2y ago[dead]
- missinglugnut 2y agoIt's not actually empathy when the motivation is just to criticize someone else.
- PhasmaFelis 2y agoAgreed. Not monstrous, but troubling. It is bizarre that people are smugly dogpiling on you for showing a shred of empathy.