Funny thing happened on the way back to work
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I went out with a few co-workers for a late lunch break, as we where walking back we (a bunch of pasty white guys) passed a black woman in her late 40's early 50's, who was out doing something about her added lbs.
As we got up to her I was talking to another artist about how to add contextually sensitive "ignore backfaces" (see where this is going?) to a script he uses. As she passed I smiled a slightly buzzed smile and said hi everyone else fell silent. She said nothing no eye contact its like we didn't even exist.
When she was about 3 steps behind us the guy I was talking to said "so ignore backfaces, how can we hook that up?" she spun around and said "thats what I thought you said" and launched into a speach I hardly remember, it was all over the place. It ended with us standing there and her saying something like "thats what I thought" and walking off. We just stared at her like she was a nut job.
None of us had a clue what she was going on about and it didn't dawn on us until we got back that she might of thought we said "ignore BLACK faces".
Has work jargon ever gotten you in or out of a wierd situation?
As we got up to her I was talking to another artist about how to add contextually sensitive "ignore backfaces" (see where this is going?) to a script he uses. As she passed I smiled a slightly buzzed smile and said hi everyone else fell silent. She said nothing no eye contact its like we didn't even exist.
When she was about 3 steps behind us the guy I was talking to said "so ignore backfaces, how can we hook that up?" she spun around and said "thats what I thought you said" and launched into a speach I hardly remember, it was all over the place. It ended with us standing there and her saying something like "thats what I thought" and walking off. We just stared at her like she was a nut job.
None of us had a clue what she was going on about and it didn't dawn on us until we got back that she might of thought we said "ignore BLACK faces".
Has work jargon ever gotten you in or out of a wierd situation?
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Vig.. so how long was the rant?
Nice story Vig.
I was like getting a 'your favourite hym sucks' t-shirt when it was repealed. Seriously, if your gonna get arrested for something, that would be it.
jaded ppl everywhere.
now days I make intentionally racist/sexist/outrageous comments, just for giggles, things that are intentionally not how I feel. I should watch my mouth in public.
It's crazy how easily people jump to conclusions or base their thoughts on shit they only catch a snippet of.
Lots of tension and insecurity in the world
My friend and I just sat there with our jaws on the floor, looking at eachother to try and figure out what she was talking about. The worst thing I can think we said was probably something about "Finger joining" ? Still feel bad for that woman though. . .
It definitely shows how insecure some people are about certain things (like with the larger woman in Asmuel's post).
-caseyjones
I worked in a hotel on a front desk when I was younger, and the process of a guest not checking at the time of cash up we called a "ROLL OVER" as in rolled over to the next day.
well I had this lady who we we're assured was in transit but due to constant delays was rolled over diay in and day out for a whole week. at the end of the week, we were fully booked, and a guest turned up and I had to make the decision wether to check them into the vacant room,
the guest asked "well are there vacancies or not?"
I replied, "Er.. well there is, but I got a room where I have been rolling this lady over in for a week but she still hasn't come yet so....?"
at this point the guest face dropped and my co-worker burst out laughing.... It wasn't untill they re-iterated what i said.....
my face was a red as a beet. damn Lingo/terminology!
has todo with the similaity of the german words for "facelift" and "to let some air in"
and a wrinkled teacher in a common classroom many years back...
was like:
i: could we get some fresh air
t:what you mean i should get a facelift 0_o
i: 0_o.... i mean, air, opening windows... you know?
t: awww....
hmm, even in german its boring...^^
but nothing really funny happens here, all i do is sleeping in lecture halls for 1000€/jear
on monday a part of a computercase and my belly collided, the computercase won, and now i have a scar where they touched... wasnt really funny for me, but the oters laughed...
Had one of those moments some time ago, only not work related
My friend has a dog named "bolle", its dutch and it means "fatty"
This because the dog was a big puppy at the time.
So this one time we were walking the dog... and he yells his name, at the same time this huge fat lady comes roling in on a bicycle, and looks at us.. WHAAAAaaaatt?
i remember us standing there like ... i guess with a name like that, its only a matter of time xD