oops, I'll get my coat /resumé/P45...it's the NuILX work faux pas thread!

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Give examples of when you have said or done the wrong thing at work.

Detail consequences (if any).

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

three strangers in the pantry just now. I say to one of them "I don't recognise you sorry, have you come up from C*********" (UK base of our new overlords).

guy gestures to the other two, who can clearly hear me and says "Well, these guys have, I've worked for the company for nine years".

turns out he's the senior sysadmin guy. I have had countless emails from him about errant servers, but have never ever seen him before! Luckily he takes it well and says "well, they do hide me away!"

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:15 (eighteen years ago)

What does this even mean?

― Storefront Church (688), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

C*********

Is it just me or does this notation invite speculation?

C*********
C*NTJUICES
C*CKSUCKER

... ok, I'll get me coat.

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:36 (eighteen years ago)

it's an English t*** on the S**** C****, quite obv.

I was going all Russian novel on you.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

yes OK so if I really wanted to go all Russian novel I would say something like "Mitya trudged through the snow in K__________ Prospekt" but whatever.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Mark that's funny/curious/symptomatic-of-our-kerrazy-modern-life, not "wrong" surely?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:40 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I say that only because 95% of the people I speak to on a daily basis at work I have never seen and likely never will.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 February 2007 10:41 (eighteen years ago)

Just started talking to my boss about Avenue Jew, without thinking of small Russian perpetually confused lady also in the kitchen, whose name, now that you mention it, is Finklestein.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

My boss was ranting and waving his arms violently about something trivial, so without engaging my brain before speaking I blurted, "You always fly off the handle". He whirled on his heel and as he stormed off I shouted "YOU FUCKWIT". Luckily for me his hearing aid was turned down that day so he didn't hear the latter comment.

― Hard like armour (Hard like armour), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

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