Just Some Work Stuff
So say you volunteer the better part of your Saturday to join in for a work-related team-building house-painting project, out of the goodness of your little administrative assistant heart. All well and good. Of course, come six in the morning on a Saturday, you think, 'I'm going to be painting a freaking house. I can stand to have an unattractive day.' So you leave the house without showering or shaving. 'Cause you're painting a freaking house!
What you forgot to take into consideration, however, is the flurry of photographers scurrying around and taking pictures for various media outlets, and the next thing you know, out of the approximately 900 photos taken that day, your photo is included in the article in the newsletter which is sent to everyone in the entire company across the entire state. So I guess that'll teach me to be a humanitarian! Or at least to put on my face before engaging in volunteer yardwork. Sigh.
Boss: "Did the car guys get ahold of you?"
Me: "Oh, yes, thank you! It's ready to be picked up today."
Boss: "Oh, good. Well, they called here, and I picked up, and they asked for 'Wily.'"
Me: "...What."
Boss: "Yeah, they were asking for a 'Wily,' and I said we don't have a Wily working here, but by the time I realized who they were asking for, they hung up on me!"
Me: "...Wily? Is... how is that even possible?"
[Turns out, they'd slurred the first two letters of my name on the form, so it did indeed somehow look kinda like "wdy." I guess I've got a new alias!]
Boss's Boss: "I wanna go home."
Boss: "You can try and start an office-wide naptime."
Me: "You can do it! It's all within your grasp!"
Boss's Boss: "That's what I love most about you, Cody, you're so full of crap."
Me: "!!!"
[And here I thought she was gonna say something about my sunny disposition!]
What you forgot to take into consideration, however, is the flurry of photographers scurrying around and taking pictures for various media outlets, and the next thing you know, out of the approximately 900 photos taken that day, your photo is included in the article in the newsletter which is sent to everyone in the entire company across the entire state. So I guess that'll teach me to be a humanitarian! Or at least to put on my face before engaging in volunteer yardwork. Sigh.
Boss: "Did the car guys get ahold of you?"
Me: "Oh, yes, thank you! It's ready to be picked up today."
Boss: "Oh, good. Well, they called here, and I picked up, and they asked for 'Wily.'"
Me: "...What."
Boss: "Yeah, they were asking for a 'Wily,' and I said we don't have a Wily working here, but by the time I realized who they were asking for, they hung up on me!"
Me: "...Wily? Is... how is that even possible?"
[Turns out, they'd slurred the first two letters of my name on the form, so it did indeed somehow look kinda like "wdy." I guess I've got a new alias!]
Boss's Boss: "I wanna go home."
Boss: "You can try and start an office-wide naptime."
Me: "You can do it! It's all within your grasp!"
Boss's Boss: "That's what I love most about you, Cody, you're so full of crap."
Me: "!!!"
[And here I thought she was gonna say something about my sunny disposition!]