Stuff You've OverheardAre you a nosey bastard who likes earwigging other peoples conversations? What's the best you've ever heard? From terrorist plots to intimate details of other peoples sex lives. We want to hear it all.
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rob, Wed 9 Jun 2004, 23:27)
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Temp receptionist: nearly the bottom of the foodchainMaybe this isn't very funny, but when you're temping as a morning receptionist at the most boring plastics factory in the world, you take your laughs where you can. A woman called and asked to be transferred to someone. She must have thought I had her on hold. I didn't. I had her right up to my ear as my bottom-feeding, amoebic temp eyes desperately searched for the extension on the switchboard. I heard some bickering in the background, then the previously polite woman reaming someone out in a foreign language. And then, in the split second between seeing the extension and instinctively transferring the call, I heard "Get on the phone and make some sales, goddamn it!"
Not much, but like I said. If you worked all morning in a plastics factory you'd find it funny too.
(, Fri 11 Jun 2004, 5:29, Reply)
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