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View: bell-info
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=> A little somthing about <=
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=> Your phone company <=
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=> By Col. Hogan <=
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Ever get an operator who gave
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you a hard time, and you didn't know
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what to do? Well if the operator hears
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you use a little Bell jargon, she might
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wise up. Here is a little diagram
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(excuse the artwork) of the structure of
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operators
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/--------\ /------\ /-----
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!Operator!-- > ! S.A. ! --->! BOS !
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\--------/ \------/ \-----/
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!
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!
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V
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/-------------\
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! Group Chief !
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\-------------/
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Now most of the operators are
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not bugged, so they can curse at you, if
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they do ask INSTANTALY for the "S.A." or
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the Service Assistant. The operator does
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not report to her (95% of them are hers)
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but they will solve most of your
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problems. She MUST give you her name as
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she connects & all of these calls are
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bugged. If the SA gives you a rough time
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get her BOS (Business Office Superviser)
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on the line. S/He will almost always
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back her girls up, but sometimes the SA
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will get tarred and feathered. The
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operator reports to the Group Chief, and
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S/He will solve 100% of your problems,
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but thte chances of getting S/He on the
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line are nill.
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If a lineman (the guy who
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works out on the poles) or an
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installation man gives you the works ask
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to speak to the Installation Foreman,
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that works wonders.
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&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!&!
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Here is some other bell
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jargon, that might come in handy if you
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are having trouble with the line. Or
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they can be used to lie your way out of
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situations....
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An Erling is a line busy for
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1 hour, used mostly in traffic studies A
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Permanent Signal is that terrible
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howling you get if you disconnect, but
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don't hang up.
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Everyone knows what a busy
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signal is, but some idiots think that is
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the *Actual* ringing of the phone, when
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it just is a tone "beeps" when the phone
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is ringing, wouldn't bet on this though,
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it can (and does) get out of sync.
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When you get a busy signal
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that is 2 times as fast as the normal
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one, the person you are tring to reach
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isn't really on the phone, (he might
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be), it is accutally the signal that a
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trunk line somewhere is busy and they
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haven't or can't reroute your call.
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Sometimes you will get a Recording, or
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if you get nothing at all (Left High &
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Dry in fone terms) all the recordings
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are being used and the system is really
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overused, will probably go down in
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alittle while. This happend when Kennedy
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was shot, the system just couldn't
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handle the calls. By the way this is
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called the "reorder signal" and the
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trunk line is "blocked".
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One more thing, if an
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overseas call isn't completed and
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doesn't generate any money for AT&T, is
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is called an "Air & Water Call".
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Call these great boards:
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The Moruge (xxx) xxx-xxxx
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Asgard (xxx) xxx-xxxx
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The Armoury (xxx) xxx-xxxx
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EveryWare AE line (xxx) xxx-xxxx
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Knicks
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=> Typed by Col. Hogan <=
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