Messing around

Overheard

Colleague on phone: “How many photos can you fit on a CD? How many do you have? One hundred. Okay, let me just do some maths.” Points phone away from face, and hums a tune for five seconds. Turns back to phone. “Well, according to my calculations those should fit on fine.”

Colleague selling a memory card: “Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the capacity of the memory card is a function of its width and height. Let me just find a ruler.”

Explorations

Today, Jamie showed Matt (another member of staff) and me the “greenhouse” that appears to be accessible only from the roof of our office. It is directly on top of our building, made almost entirely of glass, has a window open to the elements and contains large numbers of Christmas decorations in boxes. Unfortunately our ladder doesn’t reach far enough for us to get inside.

We also have a hole in our wall that leads to a void above the next-door office’s basement that they can’t get to. While peering through the hole, Matt accidently set off the metal security shutters, trapping all the customers inside the shop for five minutes before we got them to reverse.

Numbers

• Days since we complained to the Area Manager about not having a water cooler (a legal requirement): approx 14
• Days without water cooler since I started: approx. 190
• Number of water coolers expected to arrive at our store in the near future: 0

Not quite with it

Rob: “Hey, it’s Rob calling from down the road. You got a S600 in stock? You did last week.”

Me: “Are we still showing it in stock?”

Rob: “Hang on a sec… no. You’re not. Sorry!” <click>

Unbiased advice

Today we were informed that we are now a “Canon-specialist dealer” and will be pushing Canon cameras and printers above all others. (We did so anyway because Canon are excellent, but now it’s company policy.)

Matthew @ 19:51, March 28, 2006 to Miscellaneous | Comments (0)