My boss is extremely posh

aileth

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"

Oh my god these are brilliant... have you got any more??

gregg1

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:

Reminds me of the time someone I know was working for an Old Etonian posh boy and not a lot he said made any sense as he spoke with a bag of very large plums in his mouth. He had dictated a letter to her and he brought it back after she had typed it with the word "pearl"crossed out. When she queried it he replied "NO, not "pearl", I mean"pearl",as in telegraph "pearl"!!!!!!

mammyof7

gregg1 wrote: »

Reminds me of the time someone I know was working for an Old Etonian posh boy and not a lot he said made any sense as he spoke with a bag of very large plums in his mouth. He had dictated a letter to her and he brought it back after she had typed it with the word "pearl"crossed out. When she queried it he replied "NO, not "pearl", I mean"pearl",as in telegraph "pearl"!!!!!!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Love it!

itzmee

I used to have a boss who was quite snooty, and she looked down her nose at me as I have a local accent. She constantly tried to demean me in her own subtle way. One day she decided she didn't like the way I answered the phone so she gave me a script to read from and sent me on a telephone training course, despite me having worked as a telephonist/receptionist for many years! The last laugh was on her though when shortly after I applied for another job. I was successful because they were impressed at the qualification from the telephone course I had just attended!;)

pink68

These have made me laugh!

I work with a young lady who I have known for about ten years,she's very normal by my standards, then a few years ago she met and then married a VERY posh well brought up man.

Anyways she chats away to us all as normal, but when he phones her she suddenly starts saying 'Yah darling, Yah' in a very snooty voice down the phone.

Cracks me up everytime!

meritaten

pink68 wrote: »

These have made me laugh!

I work with a young lady who I have known for about ten years,she's very normal by my standards, then a few years ago she met and then married a VERY posh well brought up man.

Anyways she chats away to us all as normal, but when he phones her she suddenly starts saying 'Yah darling, Yah' in a very snooty voice down the phone.

Cracks me up everytime!

I bet you all call her 'Hyacinth Bucket' behind her back

Tiglath

Wife wrote: »

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

It's not 'frightfully' - it's 'fraffly' As in 'One lives in a fraffly nice hice.'

Winter_Jasmine

Tiglath wrote: »

It's not 'frightfully' - it's 'fraffly' As in 'One lives in a fraffly nice hice.'

Ace. Next time I'm behind someone in a queue who's shouting as loud as they can about how they "spend a lot of time in Russia nowadays dah-ling" and that the person standing two inches away from them "rahlly must" try some hotel in the foothills of the Himalayas.......

Instead of just scowling and tutting I shall bellow, even louder than them..."ONE LIVES IN A FRAFFLY NICE HICE!!!!"

BOOM - Saffstar wins!!!!! :rotfl:

gregg1

mammyof7 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Love it!

Another classic he came out with was addressing a letter to "dear Yearn" again, the letter came back. It was "dear IAN":rotfl:

pleasedelete

tesuhoha wrote: »

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.

You are not posh if you own a public house. Unless it is on your estate and you own the entire village.