• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    one of my last jobs needed me to use this for reading inventory locations to a crane operator over a phone. he always seemed slightly bemused that I didn’t know the phonetic alphabet and had to make up my own phonetics for him

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      I can imagine the laughs at all the words you might have come up with. “It’s at uhh… Narwhal Sellotape Banana!”

      A reminder though, to anyone who needs it - don’t be condescending to others for not knowing things. Everything we know, we had to learn.

      For me, I learnt the phonetic alphabet after getting frustrated one too many times trying to give my postal code and car reg on a bad phone line.