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Funny overheard conversations in work

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  • On a train from Manchester to Reading a few months ago, and the announcement listing the stations included the stop "Cheltenham S-P-A."

    You'd think their own staff would know the names of the stations!
  • jm2926
    jm2926 Posts: 901 Forumite
    Agreed, but in the post I think they wanted the error message, not a screenshot, so that could theoretically be typed in. (Hopefully without the masses of debug code, though....)

    In reality it just sounds like a junior call logger followning a script of info needed before they could pass the call on, but without having the knowledge or training to understand the circumstances.

    Agreed
    What's much more concerning was when a technical salesman tried to sell me an out-of-hours monitoring system which would check the health of the corporate email system. If the system was down, it would notify me by sending me an email ......

    I don't see a problem with this, the monitoring system doesn't have to use your corporate email system to send the email, it will send it directly to a non-corporate email address(s) which you would have to specify. I'd expect it to also have options to text or phone, which would be more useful tbh.

    Of course there's no guarantee the salesman would understand the nuances of the product being sold. There can be a large gap between sales and the actual product specification.
  • onlyroz
    onlyroz Posts: 17,661 Forumite
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    Agreed, but in the post I think they wanted the error message, not a screenshot, so that could theoretically be typed in. (Hopefully without the masses of debug code, though....)

    In reality it just sounds like a junior call logger followning a script of info needed before they could pass the call on, but without having the knowledge or training to understand the circumstances.
    Well I assumed it was just an incidence of brain-freeze on the part of the person answering the call. If all he wanted was the error message then surely a verbal description would have been enough. If he wanted more info then presumably that would require somebody from IT services to get off their butt and visit the computer in question.
  • FatVonD
    FatVonD Posts: 5,315 Forumite
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    This was kind of at work but the person involved in this incident was my husband :o

    To understand the story you need to know that he is a musician, absolutely not famous but known amongst his own genre of musicians. And he isn't a football fan.

    We went to a press launch where there were a few minor celebrities. The wine was flowing and I was driving so hubby was getting well trollied. All afternoon he kept saying to me 'that bloke used to be in East Enders, he was the vicar, Alex'. I didn't have a clue what he was on about but later in the evening DH bumped into the 'vicar' on his way to the loo and the conversation went something like this:

    Hubby: You used to be the vicar in East Enders, didn't you?
    Bloke: No
    Hubby: Oh. Who are you then?
    Bloke: I'm John Terry
    Hubby: Nope, don't know you

    (and then my absolute favourite bit)

    Hubby: Do you know who I am? :rotfl:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Healy_(EastEnders)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Terry
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  • LeeLoo_2
    LeeLoo_2 Posts: 100 Forumite
    there are two websites I love with things like this. one is called notalwaysright and the other is overheardinnewyork
  • FatVonD wrote: »
    This was kind of at work but the person involved in this incident was my husband :o

    To understand the story you need to know that he is a musician, absolutely not famous but known amongst his own genre of musicians. And he isn't a football fan.

    We went to a press launch where there were a few minor celebrities. The wine was flowing and I was driving so hubby was getting well trollied. All afternoon he kept saying to me 'that bloke used to be in East Enders, he was the vicar, Alex'. I didn't have a clue what he was on about but later in the evening DH bumped into the 'vicar' on his way to the loo and the conversation went something like this:

    Hubby: You used to be the vicar in East Enders, didn't you?
    Bloke: No
    Hubby: Oh. Who are you then?
    Bloke: I'm John Terry
    Hubby: Nope, don't know you

    (and then my absolute favourite bit)

    Hubby: Do you know who I am? :rotfl:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Healy_(EastEnders)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Terry

    That's soooo funny, he actually does look like John Terry :rotfl:
  • vegasvisitor
    vegasvisitor Posts: 2,295 Forumite
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    One of my old colleagues had her own version of the phonetic alphabet. To everyone's amusement she spelled out her name, which included 'I for Eileen' and 'D for !!!!!!' - to a client on the phone :rotfl:

    Slightly off topic, but we used to have to set our emails up with a rule whereby any replies you sent removed the trail of conversation. It was for data protection really, but it ended up resulting in people not knowing what you were replying to, so people would use 'forward' instead of 'reply' to keep the trail. There were a few interesting emails sent to the wrong people due to this...folk would be talking about someone, and due to the person's name being in their head they would accidentally send it on to the person they were speaking about :rotfl: Embarrassing!
  • sweetme
    sweetme Posts: 13,829 Forumite
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    It's not a conversation I overheard but a conversation I had with my 16 year old daughter yesterday. I was helping her apply for jobs online and said to her click the box for 35 hours, her reply, and she was deadly serious "How can I work for that long? There's only 24 hours in a day". There's no doubting I am raising a blonde :)
  • kittendothroar
    kittendothroar Posts: 528 Forumite
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    edited 20 October 2013 at 10:18PM
    In Sainsbury's last week were two middle aged gentleman in the kids toy aisle...as I walked past I heard' yes well I've already got two female robots at home'

    I walked away fast. Though intrigued.
    I love food, hate waste and have a penchant for sparkly things ::D

    Trying to find a work life balance...:rotfl:
  • sweetilemon
    sweetilemon Posts: 2,243 Forumite
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    Ha love this post!

    Friend getting married, other friend 'are you writing your own vowels'?
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