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"We've overtaken India," Dyne Tubbs, a manager at Transcom call centres, boasts as we survey her army of Filipino telephonists handling calls on behalf of a UK parcels delivery company.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2015
While many took up jobs as secretaries, telephonists, teachers or nurses, pioneering women did make it into other professions or even traditional male trades in manufacturing.
From BBC • May 25, 2012
The legislation was initially drafted to cover cases where people "indulged in the use of improper or obscene language to female telephonists" working at the Post Office.
From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2010
Adjutant telegraphers and telephonists interrupted momentarily the Kaiser's audience with his generals.
From Time Magazine Archive
The local telegraph service now has a staff consisting of a superintendent, 23 superintending officers, 140 male and 44 female telegraphists, eight telephonists, and 155 telegraph messengers.
From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles
