Telephone operator - (rules of the switch room) : Dorothy Belsham

Transcript

Well I went in at the back because I used to run up wardrobe steps every morning thinking I'd be late and you had to clock in with one of those big round clocks, and sometimes I was late. Once I did have my yearly rise stopped because I'd been late two or three days. You shouldn't make any private calls; they were very strict on that and you'd have a supervisor listening in at a local desk somewhere and you wouldn't know (if) she was listening and she'd see how you were working. If you made a private call then you were in trouble.