Fun at work #1
Friday. Everyone in the office is gone besides a certain co-worker and me. Nothing to do. What is one to do? After much contemplation, we decided it would be best to heat up soup.
Autumn, as we shall call her, decided on clam chowder pilfered from the supervisor’s office. Autumn struggles with soup and decided to heat a mug, just a coffee mug, full of it for about 45 minutes. As I suspected, it was a bit too hot to grab after being microwaved. Additionally, the entire microwave/kitchen area smelled like a Long John Sliver’s had burned down.
Autumn also decided that, since she didn’t have any work to do in her office that could not be done on a computer, to go up front and play secretary. Our regular one is gone with the shingles or something ridiculous like that. Autumn is not a secretary and will never fulfill that Jell-o -ish compactly. For example, when answering the phone, you want to identify whom the caller has reached in a short manner. Not Autumn! She insists on an introduction so long that the caller completely forgets their query and probably passes out. It goes something like this: “Hello! Thank you for calling the ******** **** for *********** ****** on this fine day where we provide services to help you live a more independent life I’m Autumn and was born in a small town where I escaped got married and had a baby how may I help you?” SNORE!!! I’m scared because on the assessment that we provide for people we have to check if they are in a persistent vegetative state and Autumn may actually put someone in one with her secretarial skills.
Autumn also has a problem with devising comebacks. For example, you may say to her “Autumn, I believe that you pendulous triple x sized breasts might be getting in the way of your productivity because the consumers are scared of them.” Her response to this will be something like “…yeah….” Um…yeah. Therefore, I have been trying to teach her how to fire off a proper come back. After saying the former statement, Autumn now might say something like “Your Mom’s face has big pendulous triple x sized breasts.” She’s making progress.
I would also like to talk about her computer skills. In all honestly, she knows computers pretty well. She has a few blogs and other things in the past. Her work printer, however, is another story. When she addressed the issues with IT, they told her that she needed to “wake up her printer.” Now when it doesn’t work correctly, Autumn gently nudges the thing and says “wakie wakie.” Wake up your printer?! Come on!
April 12, 2008 at 11:58 pm
It was damn good soup!