I can't believe I work with these idiots.

[Never]

Example:

Today one of my subordinates at work wanted to know how we'd ship a package to Alaska since our 'offical' map shows only the 48 states on the continent. I told her that everything west of the red line down the middle of the map was sent priority mail and without even thinking tapped the upper left (western) portion of the map.
"Alaska's all the way up there?" She asked.
"Yes.. Where did you think it was?"
"Someplace around here." She replied while jabbing at the Texas/Mexican border.

 

[MinkSoul]

i gotta ask....

So..... um..... where does she think Hawii is?

 

[Never]

Leading into my next example.

I have a Hawaiian name; it sounds 'different' and I tend to get quite a few questions about its meaning and origin. However, it wasn't until I started working here that people started complementing me on my English and asking me what it was like to be born in a foreign country.

 

[Cheyenne]

I have a Hawaiian name; it sounds 'different' and I tend to get quite a few questions about its meaning and origin. However, it wasn't until I started working here that people started complementing me on my English and asking me what it was like to be born in a foreign country.

Okay, I actually had to read that and think about it to figure out that these people think that Hawaii a foreign country!

I had a German relative ask me a long time ago if I was taking a plane or a train to Hawaii for a vacation.

 

[MinkSoul]

The folks in your company.....

They don't get out much....... do they?

 

[PacificBlue]

ROFL!!!

 

[Laurel]

Leading into my next example.

I have a Hawaiian name; it sounds 'different' and I tend to get quite a few questions about its meaning and origin. However, it wasn't until I started working here that people started complementing me on my English and asking me what it was like to be born in a foreign country.

So, you didn't answer...what's it like?

Nice English, by the way.

 

[Never]

It seems not.
I didn't realize there were people like this until I started working here.

Cheyenne, How did you respond?

 

[Sephiroth]

That's just plain sad. It reminds me of Jay Leno doing his Jaywalking segment. Once, he asked some people "How many moons does Earth have?" Their answers were: none, 2 or 3, a dozen, and 100! These were grown men and women! It's not like he was asking a trick question.

 

[Cheyenne]

Cheyenne, How did you respond?

I was polite. It was in a letter that she asked, so I had a chance to word it nicer than I may have if there was such a thing as email or chat back in those dark ages of the 70's. My letter just said that I 'd be taking a plane, due to the water that I have to cross to get there.

 

[Never]

Laurel:
"So, you didn't answer...what's it like?

Nice English, by the way."

I was born in Oregon, they just assumed I was from 'another country'.
Oh, and everyone laughs when I pronounce Oregon. Over here it's 'Or-e-gone', Bar Harbor is 'Bah-Habah', Gloucester is 'Gla-stir' and Peabody is 'Pea-buddy'.

Thank you, it's my favorite language.

 

[PacificBlue]

I was born in Oregon, they just assumed I was from 'another country'.
Oh, and everyone laughs when I pronounce Oregon. Over here it's 'Or-e-gone'

I was born in Or-e-gone

Still here as a matter of fact...I'm a tree hugger!

 

[lavender]

 

[Never]

Damn you! You have my ocean!
.. and it's Ora-gun.

I miss being a tree-hugger.

 

[lavender]

 

[Thomas Paine]

A friend of mine at a company I worked for years ago had a secretary who was so dumb she practically had to leave a trail of corn to find her way home at night.

One day, I was sitting in his office when he gave her some letters to send, including one to someone in Omaha. Fifteen minutes later, she clomped in, chomping on a huge wad of gum and announced that there was no Zip Code available for the Omaha letter.

"Look it up in the Zip Code book," he said.

"I did," she replied, "and I found New York and New Jersey, but there's no New Braska."

 

[Problem Child]

Thomas-

Your friend must have finally fired her, because she works for my company now.

 

[Thomas Paine]

PC --

Does she still wear the spandex pants and have the ponytail coming out of the side of her head?

 

[Barb Dwyer]

No no no. That's the receptionist at my company! The one who tells callers that she can 'park' them but she can't transfer them. But if they can call back in a few minutes she can get the extension they need.

She knows her geography now though. She completed the FedEx label by establishing that Washington D.C. was now located in Virginia. (Hey give her credit, it's close)

She is much better at local landmarks though. She can direct visitors to any Wendy's, McDonald's and Taco Bell around town.

 

[d_arthur]

hmm...i work with some idiots too. the scary thing is, most the people i work with, who i consider morons, home school their children...

i can see it now...one of my co-workers children stands up in a college history class
"...but my mom says that the french won the civil war"


btw, lavy...your friend who ditched the girl over the brazil thing...well he'd have found something else eventually to ditch her over...or at least he'd just wait to make his move until she's no longer interrested

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Damn you! You have my ocean!
.. and it's Ora-gun.

I miss being a tree-hugger.

It is Orygun, always has been, always wil be - any native knows that.

 

[PacificBlue]

Does this mean your confessing to being a tree hugger?

Come on...come out of the forest!!!


ps...did I pass my test?

 

[Mischka]

I have a Hawaiian name; it sounds 'different' and I tend to get quite a few questions about its meaning and origin. However, it wasn't until I started working here that people started complementing me on my English and asking me what it was like to be born in a foreign country.

Reminds me of another Jaywalkers segment on Jay Leno. When the movie Pearl Harbor came out, he asked people on the street of the significance behind the movie's story. One answer - Pearl Harbor was when the Hawaiians gained their independence. So it sounds like your co-workers are on the same brain wave.

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

Does this mean your confessing to being a tree hugger?

Come on...come out of the forest!!!

I have to confess that I am one of those guys who at one time in his past didn't hug trees but killed them. In my youth I worked in logging as a choker setter (both behind a Cat and on a high line) and sidelined as a powder monkey.

ps...did I pass my test?

You are doing okay so far.

STG

 

[PacificBlue]

GASP! You've killed defensless trees?










Alright, I confess...I've done it as well. I cut down a christmas tree...ok, several over the years.

*sniff* It feels good to confess.