Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raymond A. Hay, 45. A persuasive salesman, the head of U.S. operations for Xerox Corp. talks with everyone from switchboard operators to branch executives while making his cross-country rounds. Among the divisions Hay oversees from headquarters in Stamford, Conn., are Xerox's Information Systems Group, Information Technology Group and Business Development Group. Born...
...wife or someone else, was the sense of life. There's a life to it. It's exciting as hell when you finish some good ones. About work, there's a wild humor sometimes. Mostly, the self-contradictions in people's thoughts, psyches, about work. Like the elderly switchboard operator in the motel saying, "Oh, I love my work. Oh, I'm happy, I'm very happy with my work. These young girls, they're not as conscientious as I am. Once, though, at two in the morning"--let's say she worked for Holiday Inn--"I'd answer...
Nearly 100 students occupied the president's office and the switchboard room at Boston State College (BSC) yesterday morning to protest the firing of two instructors and to press their demands that BSC be excluded from austerity provisions in the new Massachusetts State College master plan...
...phone rang, a male voice announced, "This is the White House switchboard," and told him to hold on for the President. Then that most familiar of voices came on and chatted with Dobbs for fifteen minutes...
...excuses, "I'm studying." "Great, then you'll need a coffee break." Panicked, "Well, actually, I was going to sleep." His oh-so-cool and patient laugh, "Oh come on now. At 10 p.m.?" "Yeah, well, I got bored." "Great. I'm downstairs" (the dorm was guarded by a switchboard) "I'll come right up and entertain you." At which point, having let myself in for it, I'd either go through with it and suffer, or I'd drop the niceness act--"Look, I just don't want to" and hang up mortified by the cruelty in rejection...