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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Where's my timesheets?I work for this gaff that sells and hires forklifts, and I work in the service department. The engineers come down here from jobs to get parts or another job etc.
Anyhoo, we were needing one of the guys timesheets to enter onto the system, otherwise he wouldn't get paid for "X" amount of days that he hasn't handed them in. As it was month end and we had to get as much invoicing and various paperwork through as possible.
The Service Controller comes up with the idea of phoning one of our lads for his timesheets, and to fax them over, so he rings this guy up.
Cue much muffled hilarity / pant wetting from the rest of the staff when the Service Controller had to explain to the engineer "No mate, it's ok. You will get your timesheets back out the other end of the machine. They won't disappear. Just fax them over mate".
Obviously turns out that said engineer was solidly convinced his timesheets would vinish into thin air, never to be seen again after they have been through the fax machine's "gaping jaws".
Misunderstood? or just plain Luddite-ness?
(, Fri 7 Oct 2005, 20:38, Reply)
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