So what do you do with a guy who keeps calling your extension looking for a department to which you don't know the extension, and probably couldn't figure out how to transfer him even if you did?
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Dec 27, 2006 8:04:09 am PST #8223 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Trudy Booth - Dec 27, 2006 8:29:13 am PST #8224 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So what do you do with a guy who keeps calling your extension looking for a department to which you don't know the extension, and probably couldn't figure out how to transfer him even if you did?
Bounce him back to reception.
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 8:37:16 am PST #8225 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG I still haven't really done any work. I've had work-related conversations and sent a couple of emails, but I have yet to open a single document.
I don't see this week getting any better, productivity-wise. Maybe I should take Friday off.
DavidS - Dec 27, 2006 8:52:15 am PST #8226 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I'm reading the NYTimes piece on Putin and realizing: (a) Russia is pretty much a super power again, and (b) I really have no idea which countries were carved out of the USSR. This latter epiphany actually came up when I read about the King of the Turkmen dying.
Anyway, test your contemporary geography skills!
Countries of the former Soviet Union include: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan
Can you name all 15?
shrift - Dec 27, 2006 8:55:15 am PST #8227 of 10007
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Bounce him back to reception.
Yes, but which reception? t g
If he tries again, I'm just sending him to the national number and having done with it. I don't even know if the department he wants is in this state.
Jesse - Dec 27, 2006 8:55:41 am PST #8228 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ridiculously, I don't think I realized that Armenia is a country.
Allyson - Dec 27, 2006 9:03:52 am PST #8229 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's also a neighborhood in Hollywood.
Scrappy - Dec 27, 2006 9:13:44 am PST #8230 of 10007
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
And all of Glendale.
DavidS - Dec 27, 2006 9:13:44 am PST #8231 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ridiculously, I don't think I realized that Armenia is a country.
That's what I'm saying. Who knows anything about Kyrgyzstan?
Jessica - Dec 27, 2006 9:20:33 am PST #8232 of 10007
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Who knows anything about Kyrgyzstan?
When I was working for an insurance company, I had to type Kyrgyzstan at least 15 times a day because it was one of the countries you can't get business travel insurance for. And I'm still not entirely sure how it's pronounced.
So I know two things about Kyrgyzstan -- hard to spell, and uninsurable!