Things you have overhead but shouldn't have...
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Pretty tame by the standards already set, but at a company I worked for a number of years ago and they took on a few more consultants at one point. One of them was the sort of person that computers just somehow malfunction for; IT folk (like me) know the type, the 20% of users that cause 80% of grief, but without meaning to.
I'd done his IT induction and left him to it and a couple of hours later one of the admin staff had been to see him because he was complaining that stuff on his computer wasn't working. She sends us an email saying something like "<new guy>'s computer isn't working properly, can one of you lot go past his desk and pretend to give a s
t?" Except she didn't just send it to the IT mail distribution list, she sent it to the All Company list...
I'd done his IT induction and left him to it and a couple of hours later one of the admin staff had been to see him because he was complaining that stuff on his computer wasn't working. She sends us an email saying something like "<new guy>'s computer isn't working properly, can one of you lot go past his desk and pretend to give a s
t?" Except she didn't just send it to the IT mail distribution list, she sent it to the All Company list...A few years ago I used to freelance at an advertising agency based in Soho and was covering the quiet Christmas period.
There was only two working in our section, and I took off my headphones to overhear him talking on phone:
"yes.....no...no...post-operative transsexual, that's where you're getting confused'.
There was only two working in our section, and I took off my headphones to overhear him talking on phone:
"yes.....no...no...post-operative transsexual, that's where you're getting confused'.
Edited by Big Nanas on Tuesday 27th November 10:26
Jasandjules said:
Not overheard as such, but on a packed train once which was delayed, a lady called her work and said
"I am going to be a bit late for work, the train is delayed".
Then a bloke from a few seats away shouted "Come back to bed honey ".............
The train erupted in giggles...
"I am going to be a bit late for work, the train is delayed".
Then a bloke from a few seats away shouted "Come back to bed honey ".............
The train erupted in giggles...
Two women on a train discussing how to smuggle phones/drugs etc into prison for their boyfriends.
One of them had been doing it for a while by the sounds of it and was giving the newbie tips
They didn't seem to care that i was there - they'd seen me get on the train and sit behind them
One of them had been doing it for a while by the sounds of it and was giving the newbie tips
They didn't seem to care that i was there - they'd seen me get on the train and sit behind them
arfursleep said:
Two women on a train discussing how to smuggle phones/drugs etc into prison for their boyfriends.
One of them had been doing it for a while by the sounds of it and was giving the newbie tips
They didn't seem to care that i was there - they'd seen me get on the train and sit behind them
Can you give us some context as to why they would care - are you an obvious police officer, prison officer or similar?One of them had been doing it for a while by the sounds of it and was giving the newbie tips
They didn't seem to care that i was there - they'd seen me get on the train and sit behind them
Jasandjules said:
Not overheard as such, but on a packed train once which was delayed, a lady called her work and said
"I am going to be a bit late for work, the train is delayed".
Then a bloke from a few seats away shouted "Come back to bed honey ".............
The train erupted in giggles...
I like his humour. Did she find it funny? "I am going to be a bit late for work, the train is delayed".
Then a bloke from a few seats away shouted "Come back to bed honey ".............
The train erupted in giggles...
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