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Work snafus

Have you ever been at work, trying to keep your eyelids open as you intently listen to a never-ending conference call when somebody slips up and accidentally misspeaks. Saying something that just cracks you up? Something that makes you hit the mute button so you can laugh out loud in silence?

My personal favorite is when we are talking about billing in arrears (as opposed to billing in advance) and somebody says “billing in the rear.” That one slays me. I hardly have time to reach for the mute button before I’m busting up laughing. [Yes, I am a twelve year old boy. In fact just a couple weeks ago Lee and I hung up glow-in-the-dark planets in Caleb's room and made several jokes about Uranus.]

The other day we were on a call where Sales was trying to convince us to give his customer pricing we didn’t want to give. He said, “We’ve already set a presidents.” We set a presidents? Really? Do companies normally let us pick their presidents? I believe he actually meant “we’ve already set a precedence.

But I shouldn’t make fun because I often screw up on email. Thank goodness for spell checker or I would constantly send out emails about dicunts instead of discounts. Discunt is possibly even more embarrassing then billing the rear.

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5 Comments to “Work snafus”

  1. I love it. Talk about typos. One of my clients is an arts festival and no matter what I do I always type FESTICAL. It makes me laugh so hard. I am laughing now as a matter of fact.

    I am twelve too!

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  2. OMG. I can related on both levels. We sat through a webinar recently on processing year end of payroll and a person who is no only confused 99.9% of the time but is also confusing because they go on and on and on and on asked a question, again, going on and on and on and they ended with “I don’t know maybe I’m confused”. The moderator goes, “yes I can see that you definitely are confused”. Another co-worker and I bust out laughing because it was SO dead-on for that person. But then I couldn’t stop laughing. I had to go to the back of the room to try to compose myself.

    As far as typos…being in payroll, we are always talking about hours and I can’t tell you how many times I almost sent something like, “you will get 10 hors next payday”. WOW. What a bonus for the employee! HAHA.

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  3. Thanks for the laugh today!!

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  4. Gotta love instant messenger…I type ‘ just a sex’ all the time instead of ‘just a sec’. I am good for a discunt every now and then too.

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  5. I used to work in HR and there would always be some newbies who said “in the rears”.
    Love it.

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