Tales from Helminthdale: Some trains of thought shouldn't ever leave the station

Thursday, August 23, 2007

I'm assured that this is a true tale of telephone calling people:

"Acquisitions Team, Noreen speaking, how can I help you?"

"Do you play dominoes?"

"Err... no."

"I'm ringing to chase up an invoice."

Suck your teeth	28%
Put your socks back on	1%
Have a book sale	22%
Freeze all vacancies and complain that there aren't enough staff	8%
Try to spend all your budget in the last week in March	0%
Underspend your budgets by 32% and complain that you're underfunded	4%
Clean some tea spoons	3%
Count the bog rolls	1%
Tell everybody that you were on leave that week	33%

Thursday, August 23, 2007