My MD (I don't know how he got there) has asked/made the following questions/statements:

How many days are there in a year (shouted across the office)

How many 0's are there in a million (in a finance meeting)

I'm not going change this contract free willy (i believe willy nilly was his intent)

in response to a spreadsheet he asked me to make him:

'you've put 0.01 is that 1%? are you sure 1% isn't 0.1? also have you taken into account BODMAS in your equations?'

Finally he wrote 'chau' at the end of an e-mail written to me and some german colleagues. I asked him what this was he replied (spoken) ciao and that it was the only german he knew
(Fennestrator, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:05, 10 replies)

I love bosses like this

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:09, closed)

close but no cigar...
there is a way of saying bye in German that sounds like choos spelled Tus with umlaut over the U I think.
Maybe he got confused bless him
( Sallyrsm, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:26, closed)

'Tschüß'
So if you say goodbye to a German and an Italian in quick succession it sounds like you've just spotted Khrushchev from the other side of the road.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 12:30, closed)

*pedant mode*
Well, to be fair, the germans spell 'ciao' as 'tschau', so he was pretty close. He just used the english 'ch' which sounds the same as the german 'tsch'.
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 13:11, closed)

True enough.

( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Sat 5 Mar 2011, 17:48, closed)

I'm pretty sure he thought ciao
was goodbye in German. chau doesn't sound anything like Tuss (with the umlaut) phonetically or any otherlly. He was just a Delboy saying Bonjour thinking it was right.
(Wagane, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 13:23, closed)

It is.
*gets pissed off at people not knowing what they're talking about, god I need a beer*
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 13:48, closed)

has no-one read the rest of the post? the man's an idiot who doesn't know what number 1000000 is and doesn't know how many days are in a year! are you really crediting him with knowing the finer points of the German language?
(Fennestrator, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:29, closed)

Yeah, kinda am
I mean, the million one is dumb, but he was probably thinking of the fact that billion has multiple definitions. I'm going to bat for him against internet morons. God, really need that beer, only 1 hour to hometime.
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:53, closed)