MisunderstoodMy other half rang a courier today to get a disc sent over to a client. The courier company asked what it was she was sending. "A computer disc", she said.
Half an hour later, 3 blokes in a van turned up. They looked a little disappointed to be handed a floppy disc: they were all prepared to shift a computer desk across London.
Have you been utterly misunderstood recently?
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chthonic, Thu 6 Oct 2005, 23:06)
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new foreign jobWhen I lived in amsterdam, I was absolutely skint and needed an office job to earn some cash to get me back to uni in england. So I ended up taking a summer position in a car leasing company, in their claims department. The most tedious job you can imagine - yes, I had to manually sort 19,000 files in drawers.
Anyway, on my first day there, my dutch (although reasonable) wasn't exactly up to scratch when it came to understanding the insurance lingo. What I didn't realise at the time was the the word for a deduction from an account (aftrek) is very close to the word for a wank (aftrekken). So yes, on my first day I proceeded to approach my boss with a bit of paper, point at it and say 'what is it you want me to do about that wank there?'. Highly embarrassing. Then, at the end of the day, when he asked me if I was enjoying the job, I misunderstood and said very enthusiastically, 'oh...NO'. I don't think he liked me very much.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2005, 8:29, Reply)
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