Posted by David K. on January 20, 1999, at 18:00:33
In reply to Re: Tangents, NPBR , posted by Shelley in Seattle on January 20, 1999, at 16:29:44
That's really strange that we're both the "phone people" at work. I got appointed a) because there's no one else and b) because I was already the "computer guy." (To be a computer genius, all you have to do is be able to find stuff in Help or in the Manual and show people how to do what you just read up on. Duh.)
I'd probably get caught if I put silly names for each phone, but just wait until the Plant Manager learns that there's an option on the Main Menu to get straight to him ... ("For the Plant Manager, dial 3" ...) Heh heh heh. He doesn't know why he's suddenly getting so many calls from solicitors.
Being the phone guy is a great passive-agressive outlet.
Anyway. I agree with Sean that humor isn't always such a good thing. I mean, I laugh all day long, especially at bad things, mostly for a lack of any other emotions. And I can see how that can get to be very destructive, especially in a family environment.
The Writer's Guide about Death sounds really interesting to me. True Crime is interesting to me, too, but I'm a little scared of it ... although I like Jim Thompson "hard boiled" crime books.
I thought I recognized that "David Sedaris" name ... a guy at work lent me a tape of that book with the "brown towel" / OCD story. It was pretty funny ... there was another one in there that I liked even more, although I don't remember it now ...
Aren't there, like, nine million Starbucks in Seattle?
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