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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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Off to Washington Vanguard of a group of twenty Chicagoemployees on their way to help at the Wash-ington switchboards Induction IVLosT of the young women who cometo work for the telephone companiesas switchboard operators are havingtheir first experiences in the businessworld. They not only have to betrained for their jobs; they have tobecome acquainted with their newenvironment and their new associates,and they have to become adjusted totheir hours. Further, it is only natural for newemployees to want to be well informedabout the practices of the companywhich affect them, and for the com-pany to want its people to be informedabout these matters and about thecompany itself: its objectives, its poli- (^.: 146 Bell Telephone Magazine AUGUST Right: Bell System em-ployees who operate theArmys private branchexchange at Camp Clai-borne, La., outside thedormitory built espe-cially for them
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Left: Traffic people at cut-over ofcentral office at Starke, Fla., whichserifes Camp Blanding. A com-pany dormitory is occupied by25 girls out of a total force of 54 Operators Away from Home cies, and the traditions and spirit ofthe service. When a person acceptsemployment in a small store or officeto work along with one or two otherpeople, not much is involved in thismatter of induction. But when somany new telephone employees arebeing added in so many differentplaces, large and small, a real prob-lem is presented. Comprehensive induction planshave been developed. One of the car-dinal principles in these procedures isconsiderate treatment of the new em-ployee as an individual, beginning notwhen she reports for work but in theemployment office. This is one of thereasons why so many of the new em-ployees, and the older ones too, saythat they like to work for the tele- phone company. There are manyinformal discussions with individualnew employees. Sometimes smallgroups are assembled for

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