Sayings Heard 'Round the Office...
Posted Mar 2, 2009 @ 3:24 pm, Viewed by 4585 Visitors, Read 5009 Times.Chapter #3 - Lighter Side of REW
Here we are, the third post in the Lighter Side of Real Estate Webmasters. Two months for one update, three days for the next... now that is consistency. And you can expect more of it unless I can persuade (bribe or blackmail) others in the office to grab the conch and start talking. Here we go -- enjoy the ride and, as always, we take no responsibility for the uncomfortable feeling you get when reading this. (Image courtesy of Cartoonstock.com)
Whoops, did I say that?
We all say things at times that we wished we hadn't. Well, if I am in earshot you really wished you hadn't said anything... because it is showing up on this damn blog now. I can identify, and have been known to say one or two stupid things throughout my lifetime. I can hear my wife now: "if by lifetime you mean daily, then yes, one or two stupid things".
Lets build this up a bit - we aren't talking about the common whoopsies but the good ones. Not your average Fruedian slip, uncomfortable belch in public (not that there is anything wrong with that) or gabbing rumours when others aren't in the room. We are talking about truly funny once in a blue moon kind of whoopsies.
Favourite sayings encountered at REW...
Some of these are from customers, some are from staff. I have reworded these prior to publishing... not because I am trying to keep the identity of the contributor anonymous but because I am a control freak and have to change everything. (This is my excuse for being forgetful, just look angry and be controlling.)
So who has the better sayings, REW staff or REW customers? Not that we are pitting one against the other (although that would be fun). We like to think that REW staff are:
- Refined
- Professional
- Courteous
- Kind
- Creative
And with the exception of a few hoodlums (me included), they are. But everyone slips up once in a while... so without further ado here are the top five sayings encountered at REW.
1. (In reference to the CMS) Have you had a look in my backend (oh sorry, that sounded awful!)
2. I do not want it for free... I just do not want to pay for it
3. Darn it, I just picked up yesterday's coffee and drank it
4. I don't budget, I spend at will.
5. Olenbush's site looks great! Whatever Jim paid, double it and then cut the original number in half and send me a bill!
(I kept flipping back and forth between this post and Gerry's blog about stylized call out boxes... good thing we have productive members on staff here.)
The next topic
Blah blah blah as in the Lighter Side of REW Chapter #2 post... still have to finish up the "first" post. As previously mentioned, the teaser is "shaky hands and frequent trips to the indoor latrine".
See you back here in a week of two for the next chapter in the Lighter Side of REW...
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Gerry, you can use my real name -- I hate being called Donald.
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Here is another addition to the list:
"I need to get a Carrie! (In reference to our uber-helpful HR Specialist and "Jill of all Trades"
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For those of you that haven't had the pleasure of meeting Carrie, she is some of the glue that keeps REW together.
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I have the worst foot-in-mouth disease here, I think:
-There was the time I was sitting at dinner with Morgan and his then-girlfriend, soon after I started working here (2004 I think). We were discussing local buskers. I said something so utterly terrible about a local family of buskers. Morgan looked at his plate with a weird smile, and his girlfriend choked on her spaghetti. I said, "Oh, are they friends of yours?" Morgan: "Dude - that's my family."
-And then there are the gossipy MSN messages that shoot down other people in the office. You are thinking of saying something bad about "Donald", so you absent-mindedly double-click his name in the contacts list, and start ranting. Then Donald gets up from his desk, crying, and you wonder how to break your own fingers without drawing attention to yourself. (I have been this careless, but luckily "Donald" was the kind of person who didn't care about anything, least of all what people thought of him.)