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I remember the first pager work gave us, like I really wanted that.......
If I didn't answer the landline or the Horn honking on my truck, what makes you think that .....
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Jeff
Today's generation has no idea how much privacy they have lost. Most folks don't realize that as long as there is a battery in it your cell phone can be hacked and/or tapped. They have this incorrect false sense that everything is O.K. as long as the phone is turned off. Wrong. There is a reason you are not allowed to take cell phones beyond certain points in secure areas.
i hauled fuel. they gave us pagers. we get set up to unload n pager go off. shut things down just to hear empty yet? 5th load i was unloading diesel and it accidentl fell out of my pocket n went down that pipe on that tank n went kerplug. they asked about it n i said was on my truck n think it got borrowed. never got another 1
And that reason is mostly due to having a built-in camera. We have a "NO CELL PHONES ON THE PLANT FLOOR" policy for employees and a "NO CELL PHONES PERMITTED IN THE PLANT" policy for any visitors due to intellectual property protection at work.
I was living in SoCal in the late 80s-early 90s. I was doing appliance service work on the road. When my office needed to talk to me, I would get a page and have to stop at a payphone. Cellphones were just coming into use and I bought one. Since there weren't many cell towers yet, I got the whole Motorola package: Phone, transmit amplifier, receive booster, and external antenna. The phone with all the accessories was fitted in a briefcase. Clumsy, expensive,and high monthly charges. But a real time saver. A far cry from what we have now.
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That looks just like the first cell phone I had......a Motorola bag-phone it was called. It was a company phone and yes, it sure made life on the road easier. I carried a pager for years and being in a rural area we were a bit behind when it came to a roll-out of the cellular network. When I first went to work at the radio station, we had the old VHF mobile telephone units in a couple of company vehicles and that was it. Later came a system called Auto-Tel. Anyone remember that? It used the old original VHF mobile telephone channels around 151MHz but it would scan for an open frequency on it's own and place the call automatically. You would "dial" the number and press SEND and it would scan for a vacant channel. Where we were there were often only a couple channels to choose from but it was better than getting the mobile operator to place the call for you. Over the years cellular has become both a blessing and a curse.
Just the pager I could feel life changing, it's like now your on call officially.
That's about the same time they offered me Salary......
Now people expect you to be plugged in connected online available answering 24-7
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Jeff
That's about the same time they offered me Salary......
Now people expect you to be plugged in connected online available answering 24-7
73
Jeff
When I started in Funeral Service in 1990. I was given a pager and told to never turn it off. Then came the cell phone which was never off. Until I retired after 35 years of death. My cell was never turned off . I understand 24/7 I was on call all the time. But that was my calling... Yes I do miss it. But not enough to go back....
That and more. As long as there is a battery in it today's cell phone can be hacked and commandeered as a listening device.
As long as you keep it in the freezer or other similarly grounded metal box it's perfectly safe.
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