Telephone switchboard operators
A switchboard operator is basically a telecommunications professional whose main responsibility is answering and then directing incoming telephone calls for a company. In other words, they are actually responsible for operating telephone switchboards.
Back in the day, switchboard operators sat in front of a large panel with jacks for even hundreds of phone lines, plugging in and out the jacks in order to connect callers across the world/city. However, once the telephone service became automated, the need for telephone switchboard operators shrank.
Maybe you or your mother were a telephone switchboard operator, too, and sadly for some of us, the job of a switchboard operator only appears in movies.
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… and apparently the person who wrote this doesn’t know what a skate key is for either.
Kids with a skate key in their pockets weren’t wearing the leather boots with permanently attached wheels and axles. They clamped skates onto the soles of their shoes, using the key to tighten them in place. Not to “adjust the fit”, as the article claims.