public speaking
have you ever had to do public speaking? not just classroom stuff but a hall full of people ?
Me ? no, thank goodness that would scare me to death, even though with BT we were taught a couple of tricks on how to do it.
That was a time when BT decided engineers were a good way to promote BT products.Needless to say that idea was a total flop (big time). Us engineers just wanted to do our jobs and leave the selling to people in that dept.
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Just another crazy idea BT came up with from time to time.
Just have to mention to give you a laugh about the time private telecoms companies could install switchboards in firms.
Great let the customers have a choice, OOOPS another cockup
What happened was BT installed the lines up to a junction box within the firms and the private companies installed their own junction box.
Yes you guessed it BT were not allowed into the private telephone junction box and visa versa with the private tele company
So there was a firm with telephone lines and a switchboard with extns and nothing connected up.
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then came in electronic switchboards, So what was wrong with that?
Banks/ building societies etc were having music on hold and the music playing was "THE STING."
OOh the complaints came in thick and fast so all the chips had to be changed, think it was to greensleeves as the alternative