"patgkz" wrote in message
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I worked for LRE for a short while starting during their "last days".
Employed at Company store #54 in Milwaukee WI 1973 thru 1975.

When I was managing the store, I remember calling Syosset Headquarters to
check on backorders, we were plagued by import backorders. HQ's phone
system was so antiquated, we had to call back numerous times after getting
disconnected. Call forwarding was done with "switchhooking". Many of the
people that I remember talking to were well up in years, a couple were
deaf
and we had to shout to them while calling.



And perhaps that was simply a managerial "technique" used by those slippery
New Yorkers on bothersome cheeseheads. g

Ed
wb6wsn