Telecom Worker Mugs

Collections Gone Wild

'It's for you!'

Chat Lines - "If you would like to talk to a machine that sounds like a woman press 1. If you would like.."

'What's the number to ring to register my 'don't know' vote?'

'Honey, it's me! If you want to marry me, please press 1!'

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the world's first telephone call.

"No, his phone line is fine. Maybe he just doesn't love you anymore."

"Sorry, we've found an app that's better at being you than you!"

"When they said progress made our replacement inevitable I thought they meant by AI."

"The UWS association for the advancement of A.I."

From Hunter-Gatherer to Influencer: The Evolution of the Dignity of Labor

'I suppose you realize that when I tell everyone back at the office about this you wont be able to tele-commute anymore.'

'My ring-tone's inaudible to humans.'

Birds on a wire, "Bernie?...Oh he's gone cable!"

"This is System One and I am holding the beta for System Two."

Data From a Truck

'You have to stop bringing all that work home. You're trying to send a fax from our toaster.'

'No no Mr. Peters, you are not being outsourced. You are being virtualised in 'the cloud'.'

Telephone line ends up buried in the ground with a headstone.

'Yeah, you have lips like Mick Jagger ... ok, back to the teleconference.'

HUAWEI 5G

"Thank you for holding. . .Your call is important to us. . .Yeah right."

'The boss said things have to improve or my job is going to run out of minutes.'

"What the hell sort of convenient new feature is this?"

Astronaut sees cell tower on the moon.

From Hunter-Gatherer to Influencer: The Evolution of the Dignity of Labor

'I got a job working for Google Earth.'

'Right here is where your imaging data is clogging up all of your bandwidth.'

'From here I can monitor world stocks, or attend overseas teleconferences, unfortunately I can't get out though because the door's stuck.'

'It's engaged.'

"Ruddy AI. Bad enough to be replaced by a computer, never mind a COFFEE MAKER."

The first transatlantic communication.

"Come in, Wilson. I've traded my phone for some booze. Just another unexpected consequence of the breakup of AT&T."

'Kids, let's pause and give thanks to that higher power that keeps this family together...our internet service provider.'

'I don't know what it is. I think it's some kind of old-fashioned cell phone.'