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.
7 comments:
thanks for the laugh linz. it would have been much easier to write it on an expense report than to waste that kind of energy. however - i applaud his creativity for pulling the hudson river incident back into 2010. wasn't that at least 2 years ago?
Wow. That is amazing. It is also amazing that you blogged publicly about a co-worker and called him an idiot.
Agreed linz. You are quite the brave blogger.
I do love a blog post! It's what mothers live for.
hmmmmm...good point, though he's not technically a coworker since I work in a completely different part of the company. We have no mutual friends, and I don't think he's even on facebook...I vote I'm safe!
Good for you...be brave...I concur with your observations....why don't ya'll come see us!?!
I absolutely love your blogs. They're amusing.
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