A young pregnant woman, who knows she is having a girl, is talking to an older lady from another department…
Older Lady: My daughter-in-law is also pregnant.
Young Pregnant Woman: Oh, wonderful.
Older Lady: Ja, I think she must be having a girl too because she is fat like you.
I had a great chat on Skype* yesterday with a colleague (lets call him Bob) who no longer works for us, he gave me some absolute gems!
Here is one from before my time at this job…
Bob: “A, please switch off your computer.”
A switches of the monitor.
Bob: “Okay, but what about the computer?”
A: “I did.”
Bob: “No, thats the monitor, what about the big metal box next to you on the floor?”
A: “I always wondered what that was…”
* I was crying I was laughing so hard, good thing I couldnt look him in the eyes, I would have literally been on the floor if he had. Thanks ‘Bob”!
R: I just got an SMS that says I’ve won 100 million US dollars! Do you think its real?
There was a women who used to work here, she lived alone and made her own lunch every day.
She sits at her desk and takes out her wrapped sandwich.
She slowly unwraps the foil and on looking inside says with a HUGE sigh:
“Tuna! Again!”
Hello all!
Welcome to the brand new site for Overheard in my office…!
From the seed of an idea presented to me yesterday on Twitter to the implementation of finding the domain, setting up the theme, importing all the previous posts (and comments) to the launch of this site, what a whirlwind…
Thank you Laura, Camilla and Jess for inspiring me and thank you to my husband Paul for setting it up and making it all possible!
Looking forward to sharing in the absurd and downright idiotic things that are overheard in my office…
R: If I have two squares in my email do I have to save them individually or will they save together?
Me: Squares?
R: Yes, those little square things in the bottom.
I realize she means attachments.
Me: No you have to save them individually…
R: Ok.
10 min later
R: Ok, I have saved them, now if I want to drag them to XYZ folder must I do it individually or will they go together?
Me: But didn’t you save it in XYZ folder?
R: Yes.
Me: Well then why do you need to drag them to the folder?
R: I always do.
Me: Ok, then they must go individually (I say this not really understanding why she needs to drag them over if they are already saved in the right folder).
Another 10 min later
R: Can you come and see this?
Me: Ok.
I walk over to her computer, she shows me that she was talking about moving the email into a new folder in her in-box (with the same name as the folder where she saved the attachments originally).
Me: So you need to drag the email to XYZ folder?
R: Yes.
Me: So then drag the email.
R: But will both attachments be moved?
*sigh*
A little background, we have been working on a data capturing project for just over a month, this lady has been helping since the beginning of the year, I have always opened the document (that is on the desk top) for her but she has watched me do it numerous times.
P: Can you help me, I cant see the words, only the windows blocks
Me: Oooookaaaay
I take a look, she has a new Excel document open
P: See, only the blocks no words
I minimize all the windows until I get to the desk top, I then open the Excel document she needs to be working on.
P: oh, how did you do that, I went to start and opened the Excel in the menu…
This was overheard by a colleague in her other office…
R: The Knysna Golf Course burnt down yesterday.
E: Where? In Knysna?
K (standing at the fax machine): Do you think, if I am dialing an ’0860′ number I still need to dial ’0′ for a line?
K: In my Windows Word page, why does every line start with a capital letter?
I bash my head quickly (and quietly) on my desk and get up to take a look. Its exactly what I thought would be the problem…
Me: Ok, see, when you are typing and you get to the end of a line, you do not have to press enter, just keep typing and the words will automatically move onto the next line.
K: Oh.
Please, dear readers, be aware that this was the second time I had explained this phenomenon to the same person over a period of 6 or so months!
