I Don't Think It Counts As Eavesdropping When They Know You Can Hear

I can hear every word that is said in the three offices behind me. The three occupants know this and filter their conversations or shut their doors accordingly. The one in the far right office speaks more quietly on the phone, so I tend to know less of his personal business but do know he was quite frustrated with a particular VP today... The one in the middle office was very supportive of his wife today as her grandmother passed away last night and was expecting to be in the office until 10 tonight working on a presentation for the board... And the one in the office on the left...well he's just an idiot.

We (and I say we because he was using speaker phone so I was really right there with him) were on hold today with an airline for a long time. Horrible waiting music and all. For a long time. Apparently, he went on a business trip last week and accidentally paid for his airline ticket with his personal credit card instead of his company card. He wanted it refunded, was told no, and was trying to talk to someone higher up the food chain. When we got to the third person, he finally picked the phone up, which is unfortunate because I would really like to know what the woman's responses were. Choice excerpts from his (angry) side of the conversation:

"So if one of your flight attendants was pushing the beverage cart down the aisle and ran into me and took my leg off, you would be unable to give me a refund? [pause] And you don't think the airline...and I know it wasn't your airline but the other airline...was able to give those people that landed in the Hudson river a refund? [pause] I just don't think that's true...Could I please speak to someone in accounting?..."

Even if it is policy to refund passengers when they lose limbs to the beverage cart or survive a crash into a body of water, somehow I just don't think the same compassion is granted to an idiot guy who used the wrong credit card. Have the company reimburse you - it's a business expense, idiot.

Baking

I made snickerdoodles last night from scratch because I just felt like making something and we happened to have all the ingredients. Do you know how much butter is in those things?! Seriously, next time I'm just going to roll a stick of butter in some cinnamon and sugar and call it done.