Strangely appropriate to today's executive as well. It all blows up in his face when he missing a call for a $500k order. He lets his phone ring and ring (even when he's in the office) to impress people with how busy he is, he gives incomplete information about who he wants to call, and doesn't wait on the line while placing a call. Bullard (Hal Peary, the original Great Gildersleeve) just won't learn. Seems that Audrey's corporation has lots of good execs, but that darn Mr. Namely, PICK UP THE DAMN PHONE!Īudrey Meadows is a harried switchboard operator venting her spleen to her roommate. With any luck, the Bullards of this world will get the boot and smart workers like Kelly and Connie can move into management.Ī short from Bell Labs about proper business phone ettiquette, aimed at business executives. But is she ready to sit at home in the suburbs all day dreaming of new kitchen cabinets? Fortunately for her and Kelly, its 1965 and the womens movement is just a few years in the future. To Connie, quitting her dead-end job after she marries might seem like a good idea. It looks like Connies going to marry boyfriend Brad. Maybe there will be an opening at Connies company. Workers like Connie are considered expendable and the effort they put into their jobs isnt valued.Īnd what about Kelly? Will she and the other switchboard operator find themselves taking the fall for Bullards incompetence? Bosses like Bullard are always looking to pin the blame on someone elseand who better to blame than a vulnerable female employee like Kelly? Kelly may find herself out of a job. But will Connie get a bonus for her quick thinking? No. Her polite behavior to a Venezuelan customer clinched the deal. And sure enough, Kellys roommate Connie just happens to work the switchboard at the company that landed the big contract Kellys boss lost. Instead we hear a lot of platitudes about how telephone switch-board operators are invisible diplomats who can smooth over their bosses clueless behavior. Why would a company stick a competent worker like Kelly in a at the switchboard and make a pea-brain like Bullard an executive? Thats the real question posed by this film, but naturally it isnt dealt with. Bullard cant even get it together to pick up his ringing telephone as a result, the company looses a half-million dollar contract. The astronomical objects in the sky are shown in the form of light that they typically shine very brightly, but they actually glow in other wavelengths as well.Men! switchboard operator Kelly Smith complains to her roommate Connie, they have all the fun in business! Not only do they get to have all the fun, they can even be a dimwit like Kellys boss, Bill Bullard. The X-rays and gamma rays from the Sun and other objects in space would not actually be visible from the ground. The scene also does not highlight the effects of Earth’s atmosphere, which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays, and some ultraviolet and infrared light. If you had ultraviolet vision, for example, the view out the window and under the UV lamp would be brighter because of reflection. The scene is highly simplified: The visible light scene includes objects that reflect light as well as those that give off their own light, but the other scenes focus only on objects that emit that form of light. The imaginary scene shown here highlights some of the natural and human-made sources of electromagnetic radiation on Earth and in space. The entire range of light, from radio waves to gamma rays, is known as the electromagnetic spectrum. Objects that do not give off their own visible light (and are therefore invisible to our eyes in the dark) glow in other wavelengths, like infrared or ultraviolet. There are other types of electromagnetic radiation that human eyes cannot see. Other things, like plants and animals, are visible because they reflect visible light from other sources.īut visible light is just one form of light. Some things, like stars and light bulbs, emit their own light. Human eyes have evolved to detect the rainbow of colors that make up visible light. There are colors of light that human eyes cannot detect.