It always gives me pleasure when I get the opportunity to wind up people in the business (not my department of course!) with legitimate cause.
My mission today was to visit one of the business units with a view to printer rationalisation. The business is way over subscribed on printers and in an effort to save costs and standardise on a particular manufacturer we are talking to the business about their requirements. So, the conversation today went something like this:
Me: Hi! yay, happy me! I want to talk to you about printers.
Manager: Okay, what about them?
Me: Well, I want to take some away from you.
Manager: [slaps forehead] You are f***ing kidding!
Me: Nope.
Manager: [huffs and puffs] I’ll f***ing tell you how many f***ing printers you can take off us! None!
Me: fnar fnar…
I asked the manager to accompany me into the main office area. I pointed around the office.
Me: That one’s dead, so’s that one, that one and that one. There’s nine printers in the office for seventeen staff and four of ‘em are dead.
Manager: …
Office Worker: [Pointing elsewhere] So’s that one!
After the manager had calmed down we discussed requirements and possibilities. The manager flounced, yes flounced back into his office leaving me to do my job.
Oh what a fun afternoon!
By the way - I must apologise, I have been snowed under this week and haven’t had time to write the next article for Beginner Photography. Guess you’ve got another week to work on your photos!
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You’re a small, small, petty, small man Coll……game on!
Or should I use your interwebthingy nom-de-plume?
Thing is, if I abbreviate that, I shall have to call you ‘Corn’….
Hmmmmmmm…………….I shall have to ponder this weighty matter at some length….
Nope, Coll will do. :)
If you must, call me “Linc”. There is a history behind it and maybe one day I will write a post about it…
C’mon, gizza a clue… do I know the manager in question? :o)
Yes. ;)