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?
A colleague in another office receives a phone call this morning.
S: Hi RM, how you?
RM: Fine S and you?
S: Good thanks. Can you please transfer me to SN?
RM: Umm, no. You called me on my cellphone!
We work in an open plan office with a few closed offices around us…
A phone rings in one of the offices (only two women sit in that particular office).
It stops and then rings again.
And again.
B: I wonder whose phone that is? It keeps ringing!
We work in a job where we have batches that need to be tallied up before being punched into our system, there are often two sets of totals that are needed so we each have an adding machine that spits out little pieces of paper with the totals on them.
B: I just tried to add this up on my keyboard instead of the adding machine. I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t doing anything.
followed by…
R: Oh I often try adding up on my phone by mistake.
followed by…
K: When I call Discovery Health and they ask you to put in your membership number, I sometimes put it into my adding machine…
