It's gonna be one of those days...

[MrDooo]

Getting off the train each morning is like a cattle call, with people on the platform moving at Grandma w/walker speed. So it gets a little close. Today I had some lady tap me on the shoulder wondering if I put my shirt on inside-out. So I start feeling for the tag and stuff and it turns out, yeah I did. So great. I get to look like an ass on the walk to work. I hide in the back corner of the half-full elevator on the ride up to my floor, hoping none of my coworkers notice. Really I was hoping for an empty elevator so I could pull a quick change before I got to my floor, but no such luck.

*You may begin visual of dude quick-changing shirt around in 10 second elevator ride.*

So I head straight to the bathroom, grab a stall, strip the shirt off and turn it right-side out. Deodorant all over. Yay.

Yes folks, I'm wearing it inside-out all day today! Should I clip the tag in the back and the extra button off the side to make it less obvious? I'm thinking nah, cuz it's the obvious seams and funky collar on a basic work polo giving it away anyway.


Is it that kinda day for anyone else today?

[Seret Sajet]

Dooo's gonna start a new trend! Folks everywhere in Chicago are going to start wearing their shirts inside out. Next thing ya know Usher will be wearing a shirt inside out in his next video (thank god he'll be wearing a shirt period) and some lead singer of a band who sounds like Pearl Jam did 5 years ago will be wearing it to the MTV movie awards.

Rock on, Dooo, you trendsetter you!

[Keer]

Dooo's gonna start a new trend! Folks everywhere in Chicago are going to start wearing their shirts inside out. Next thing ya know Usher will be wearing a shirt inside out in his next video (thank god he'll be wearing a shirt period) and some lead singer of a band who sounds like Pearl Jam did 5 years ago will be wearing it to the MTV movie awards.

Rock on, Dooo, you trendsetter you!

Seret beat me to it, but yeah you may be surprised at how "the cattle call" sometimes responds to that one bull in the herd with confidence. Rock that shirt like it ain't no thang. Walk around the office like you're Heywood Floyd from 2001. "Epidemic? What epidemic?"

But, as for the day at work I had a doozy yesterday. Some primadonna from another department starts chewing out one of my subordinates out for something that wasn't close to his fault. I pull this other guy aside and tell him he should come to me when he's got an issue with one of my people.

I then take him through his "issue" and I find out that it was something that he (the 'donna) was responsible for in the first place. AND that I notified him about this exact thing 5 days ago, verbally and via memo. "Well, I didn't understand. Sorry." It's a frequent thing with this guy and I swear he got a promotion because he used to play golf hanging with the company president. Anyway he coughed up a bunch off other lame-osity, but at least he did say he was sorry.

On to 2 hours later (same day). I come out of the restroom and get a call from accounting about the sale of about $15,000 worth of jet fuel to this air charter company that constantly bounces their checks to us. They even used their passenger's credit cards to pay for fuel in the past which is very lame for this type of company. Anyway, I ask accounting "What about it?" Well it seems that their credit didn't clear again and they weren't supposed to get any fuel. Meanwhile, the accounting girl has called my two immediate superiors with the problem saying that I was the one who ok'd the sale. I was in the bathroom! No way could I have done that!

Anyway it got all cleared up. Accounting got confused because I recently handled that customer and she didn't know that they got switched to another person. Annoying, though. Hopping around like a major league shortstop.

[Krusshyk]

Well maybe this will brighten your day in the most sardonic way possible.

A week ago, I was working on making some catalogs for potential customers when I heard one of the blathering idiots I work with obsessing about a trip to new mexico she is taking to see her sister. She hates planes, but has gone to Albequerque (sp?) every year for the last 13 years, so there really is no big deal, yet she obsesses away.

So she finally says, "I think I know why I worry so much about going to New Mexico. I know that when my dad is gone, I am gonna have to move out there [with her sister] and then I am gonna die there. I am gonna die in New Mexico"

Having had quite enough of that and without missing a beat I said, "Well before you do that, I need some more filler pages. So if you could just do that, that'd be great."

Dooo, I wore a shirt inside out for an entire meal out the other day. My fiance' pointed it out about 4 hours after I had put the damn thing on. If you ain't gettin' fired for it, I say fuck it, and put your pants on inside out, too. Make a statement.

[Illbleed]

I work in a job where I get directors and hired IT staff calling in to purchase equipment. Working in call center and not having a degree(at the momment), I get asked extremely difficult questions that only an engineer would know.

"I'm was checking on the availability of this x router?"

ME: "Did you want to purchase it?"

"No, I need you to answer a question for me about the technical specs. What IOS set does this router support? I need to have high availiblity..flux capacitors..ect al."

ME: "Did you check through the manufacturer?"

"No. It's your job to research it for me."

WTF? I don't even have the degree and if I did do you think I'd be working here? Geez..

[Orph@N]

Hey!!!! I live in Abuquerque New Mexico O_o /runs off to the corner to cry

[xyryn]

Hey!!!! Orph@n, I used to live on S.14 near the Ponderosa! Great place to live! 4 real seasons! Not the 2 week long Springs they have on the East Coast, real 3 month long Springs! And Spring and Fall aren't soggy. Yay! And you can shovel snow with a broom, hehehehe.

And good food with world class chefs!. Yay!

And sunsets and lightning storms that can't be beat in any other part of the world. Yay!

'Course the schools suck. Hrrrmmm.

[Isleh]

I work in a job where I get directors and hired IT staff calling in to purchase equipment. Working in call center and not having a degree(at the momment), I get asked extremely difficult questions that only an engineer would know.

"I'm was checking on the availability of this x router?"

ME: "Did you want to purchase it?"

"No, I need you to answer a question for me about the technical specs. What IOS set does this router support? I need to have high availiblity..flux capacitors..ect al."

ME: "Did you check through the manufacturer?"

"No. It's your job to research it for me."

WTF? I don't even have the degree and if I did do you think I'd be working here? Geez..

Is it? I would have been tempted to reply with

"When you start signing over to me your paychecks, I'll start doing your job for you."

[Illbleed]

"When you start signing over to me your paychecks, I'll start doing your job for you."

Indeed.

Ah, another favorite is people that miss dial:

"Uh, I'm trying to reach blah blah company"

Me: I'm sorry you've reached a computer sales company, you've dialed the wrong number."

"Uh, well do you know they're number?"

Me: "No."

"Well, do you know how I can get ahold of them?"