My boss is extremely posh

Wife

I'm no.

...however, he is very charming and chatty.

Sometimes I have no clue what he's on about, Felicity's gardener this, Grange vintage that... he looks at me sometimes over his oversized glasses and expects an answer after a long drawn out posh speaking monologue and I didn't realise an answer was expected and don't know what to say

Sometimes I hear him saying lovely things to people on the phone, and then saying to me 'ok, I've dealt with that, make sure you let him know for future' and there's me, a few minutes after thinking 'was he actually being rude to someone but in a posh way that I couldn't understand what exactly has been dealt with"? ... didn't even realise there was an issue to be dealt with.

definitely dense.com me

Oh posh people, you do so amuse me :rotfl:

Wife

A troll? no, I'm quite active on this site. Just amused by my boss and thought I would share - but probably not amusing to most, just me! Not looking for any debate or otherwise, just observational tis all.....

19lottie82

I have a boss a bit like that. Not so much just posh, but he is pretencious (sp?). he once told me he always parked in the parent and child spaces@ waitrose, because people with children couldn't afford to shop there anyway!

shrimpy_80

19lottie82 wrote: »

I have a boss a bit like that. Not so much just posh, but he is pretencious (sp?). he once told me he always parked in the parent and child spaces@ waitrose, because people with children couldn't afford to shop there anyway!

:rotfl: This has made my day!

Wife

19lottie82 wrote: »

I have a boss a bit like that. Not so much just posh, but he is pretencious (sp?). he once told me he always parked in the parent and child spaces@ waitrose, because people with children couldn't afford to shop there anyway!

Ha! mine isn't pretentious just posh eccentric I guess

19lottie82

ha ha, there are plenty more! another off the top of my head is he telling me how he was sold something (a surfboard i think) on gumtree and the buyer came to collect it. I asked if the buyer tried to haggle with the price and he told me "he tried but I wouldn't budge. it was the principal really. i mean, he was in my house at the time, so he could obviously tell I didn't need the money"

Wife

I haven't heard the word 'frightfully' be used so frequently during a day... seems to be the posh word of the week?

dhalliday

19lottie82 wrote: »

ha ha, there are plenty more! another off the top of my head is he telling me how he was sold something (a surfboard i think) on gumtree and the buyer came to collect it. I asked if the buyer tried to haggle with the price and he told me "he tried but I wouldn't budge. it was the principal really. i mean, he was in my house at the time, so he could obviously tell I didn't need the money"

This is hilarious!!

robpw2

Wife wrote: »

I'm no.

...however, he is very charming and chatty.

Sometimes I have no clue what he's on about, Felicity's gardener this, Grange vintage that... he looks at me sometimes over his oversized glasses and expects an answer after a long drawn out posh speaking monologue and I didn't realise an answer was expected and don't know what to say

Sometimes I hear him saying lovely things to people on the phone, and then saying to me 'ok, I've dealt with that, make sure you let him know for future' and there's me, a few minutes after thinking 'was he actually being rude to someone but in a posh way that I couldn't understand what exactly has been dealt with"? ... didn't even realise there was an issue to be dealt with.

definitely dense.com me

Oh posh people, you do so amuse me :rotfl:

sorry could you go to google.com/translate and translate this into posh so i can see what your talking about

Welshwoofs

Wife wrote: »

Sometimes I hear him saying lovely things to people on the phone, and then saying to me 'ok, I've dealt with that, make sure you let him know for future' and there's me, a few minutes after thinking 'was he actually being rude to someone but in a posh way that I couldn't understand what exactly has been dealt with"? ... didn't even realise there was an issue to be dealt with.

That's simply what you call beating someone into submission with unrelenting politeness. It tends to work with idiots on the phone as it's extremely hard to be pushy/stroppy with someone who's being upbeat and professional in response. It's one of my tactics with the real idiots....and naturally when I get off the phone, it's at that point that I mutter "to$$er".

tesuhoha

This reminds me of my cousin who was extremely posh. He once owned a pub near Gatwick Airport and on one occasion he invited the whole family there for lunch. We were feeling very intimidated when this other very posh guy comes in the door and asks to use the phone (this was a few years ago before mobiles) because his Austin Healey sports car had broken down.

My cousin said 'No, certainly not. Bog off, will you?' After the man had gone he said to his wife 'Bloody riff raff. We don't want types like that in here. Who does he think he is?'

My cousin was not a very nice person and it certainly made us wonder what he thought of us as we are all working class.