R requested certain documents from a provider yesterday. They sent her the documents via email this morning and CC’d me on the mail.
R: They sent me the wrong documents.
Me: So send a mail back and tell them.
R: They sent you the mail, can you check if the documents they sent you are right?
Me: But they sent me the same mail as you.
R: Yes, but can you check?
Me *sighs*: Ok… They are wrong, send them a mail back and tell them.
R: Ok.
Due to the many Eskom power failures of late something in our switchboard is broken. They chose today to fix it. This means that we were without phones for a good portion of today. Late this afternoon is when this gem occurred…
R gets a phone call and picks up, talks to the person for 5 minutes and puts the phone down.
B: R is your phone working now?
Part 1
We are sticking labels onto envelopes.
KH: How can the printer print the word Johannesburg wrong on just one label?
Me: *blink* *blink*
Me: Ummm, its the database that has it wrong…
KH: Oh.
Part 2
KH: So should I change it on the database?
Me: *bangs head on desk*
So I get a phone call from one of the ladies working down stairs (1 floor down!)
E: Hi there, can you give me your fax number?
Me: Sure. Its xxx-xxxx. Why do you need it?
E: Oh, I dont feel like walking upstairs again to give R her report, I thought I would just fax it instead.
J: RM, the printer isn’t working!
RM: Is it on?
J: Ummm, no….
A few minutes ago we had a small power failure, enough to shut all the computers down.
KM: Do I need to switch my machine back on?
Me: Well if its off…
I work on the top floor of our building. I have just left my office and am making my way to the stairs when I overhear this from a woman standing at the lift:
Woman to another lady standing at the lift: Are you going down?
So one of the ladies (IF) who works in another office asked my boss if I was pregnant.
Boss: Yes, she is pregnant with a girl.
IF: What! But I thought she had a husband!
Boss: Ummm, the baby… its a girl…
IF: Oh…
K (handing me a paper with the words COPY emblazoned on the front): Did B give you the original of this?
Me: Well, K, that says COPY on it so its a copy for you.
K: So, must I give this to you still?
A bit of background:
One of the men that works out of our offices has been quite ill, so ill in fact that for a week he was in hospital, shifting between ICU, High Care and Cardiac ICU.
Today we received a message that he was home from hospital but would not be coming into the office for a few days.
W (to the office): AB is well, he is out of hospital and is resting at home for a few days before coming back to work.
K: Oh thats good. Is he stable?
At this point W told me that she had to bite her tongue (literally) to keep from pointing out to K that if AB wasn’t stable he wouldn’t be at home…
