A co-worker of mine, who is also a graphic designer, gave me the biggest headache/laugh ever in my career.
He asked me to give him a hand with printing some brochures which he designed a while ago. In the process of printing these he realized a typo in the address, so to solve this problem he created labels which he could then place on top of the typo to cover it. As I was about to help him with correcting his mistake….I realized one thing…..
………The labels he printed were transparent, sigh…..
I work a turgid minimum wage job in a mid-sized engineering plant whilst putting myself through college. I’ve been there for five years and have had three people to answer to in that time. For the first three years I had a male boss in his mid 40s who, while harsh and snappy at times, was generally OK to work with. Then about two years ago, he became quite ill – nothing serious, but enough to put him out of commission at a time when we were extraordinarily busy with an order and working very long hours.
Boss: Are we not paying you enough, that you have to come in wearing those shoes?
Cute female receptionist: What’s wrong with my shoes?
Boss: They’re covered in scuff marks.
Cute female receptionist: Stop being so superficial! And they’re not scuff marks, it’s pigeon crap.
User: “I’ve just unplugged my monitor from the wall in order to clean it without getting shocked. How do I plug it back in?”
I had about ten different responses flash through my mind, but as this guy was fairly high up on the food chain of management, I had to control myself. I said, “Align the pins with the hole, and push it into the socket.” Satisfied, the user hung up.