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Originally Posted by Oldcodger
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Originally Posted by OscarFoxtrot
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Originally Posted by Peter.N.
Brilliant that episode of 'Trumpton' so typical of the GPO era, three digit numbers and no 'elf and safety. Strange that the mayor couldn't hear anyone because of the crackle on the line and yet heard the engineer heard him OK.
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Perhaps the crackle was on the E side and the egnineer was speaking on the D side. |
I prefer my BT engineers to have gotten the name "Engineer " by training ,rather than as a name 
Some of those appearing at my house need (IMHO) A lot of training. I say that as a GPO trained 50 years old trained bloke.
It shocks a lot of blokes turning up to a fault in my house that I'm possibly technically their superior.
Just HOW can an old 70year old CODGER know so much about telecomms, or even electronics s or even computing, unless the bloke had studied the subject. |
I find a similar thing happens. Last time I had moved a friends PABX and we needed the dropwire feeds moving. Attitude was 'he can't know much' but from my use of terminology, they (cleverly!) deduced I might have worked for 'the Firm' - so they asked? I started off explaining it was a bit of a hobby but I had worked for 'them' ('Gods Poor Orphans') for a while -having started off as an apprentice and reached the dizzy heights of a TO when I was 19. Got fed up after ten years working deep underground so left and went commissioning TXE2s for the Post Office Telephones and was Senior Commissioning Engineer on the first TXE4 - at that time one of the most advanced exchanges in the world. Funny how their attitude changed especially when their manager turned up and started addressing me by my first name! He had visited the place I looked after as a TO when he was an apprentice many years before. All good fun! Now just 'play' with modern and vintage systems.