My Day At Work
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labellementeuse*is amused* So this is total hypocrisy, after suggesting to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
miriamus that most people should never blog about their work unless they're REALLY FUNNY, or concise, but... okay, so my day at work was pretty wierd.
Firstly, it was a Thursday. And Thursday=pay day!!111! (Another reason to sanctify Thursday, o ye Shoeboxers on my list.) So of course the morning should be good- except it's pouring down and I've had four hours sleep, due to a chance encounter with The Ruins of Ambrai late last night. I can't believe I cried, AGAIN, when Alin and Val died and then again when Taig died. I mean, really, aren't I grown up enough? But WAAAAAAAH, ALIN AND VAL. *weeps* I mean, I sobbed for like five minutes... first good cry in a while, actually, yet for such a silly reason. (Except Alin and Val aren't silly, they're Tragic. And Romantic. *sniffs* "Not half as much as they loved each other..") Anyway, so after finally popping off at two in the morning >.< I wake to thunder and rain, OMG SO MUCH RAIN. But I get into work on time and settle down, and things are basically normal- except, after my supervisor spent a bored twenty minutes reading my CV and coming out to ask me "So, you know Latin, then?"
"Um, only a little."
"No, you know a lot!"
"Well, only up till sixth form."
"Say something in Latin"
*should have said "Ave, Caesar... etc" but instead* "Well you don't actually learn to speak it..." Cue brief history of Latin and its importance and that no, no-one still speaks it today (I have enormous respect for Carla as a supervisor, but she don't know shit about languages...) and basic language geekery about kings speaking Latin.
Anyway, apart from their venture with me into the land of Geek (my one true home) things were normal until two in the afternoon, when... the electronic tills start blinking. And then they break, totally. They're computer run, and the damn things FROZE. ASAGHDAHJ. This is why TECHONOLOGY SUCKS and we should use books for everything. Like MANUALS. Manuals would be such a brilliant creation. Man. Anyway, they BREAK and we spend the rest pf the afternoon doing nothing until half an hour before i'm due to get off Carla decides we have to do MANUAL SALES. OMG. THIS IS A HUGE IRREDEEMABLE HEADACHE and if I walk in there tomorrow and have to write down barcodes, descriptions, price and cash given and THEN WORK OUT CHANGE (this is fine for one or two items per purchase, but for ten it SUCKS) I will go STARKERS.
Anyway, it was fairly funny (except for this one total cow, but hey, it's retail.) I suspect I have failed to transmit this humour but oh well, I'm laughing remembering it. XD
miriamus that most people should never blog about their work unless they're REALLY FUNNY, or concise, but... okay, so my day at work was pretty wierd. Firstly, it was a Thursday. And Thursday=pay day!!111! (Another reason to sanctify Thursday, o ye Shoeboxers on my list.) So of course the morning should be good- except it's pouring down and I've had four hours sleep, due to a chance encounter with The Ruins of Ambrai late last night. I can't believe I cried, AGAIN, when Alin and Val died and then again when Taig died. I mean, really, aren't I grown up enough? But WAAAAAAAH, ALIN AND VAL. *weeps* I mean, I sobbed for like five minutes... first good cry in a while, actually, yet for such a silly reason. (Except Alin and Val aren't silly, they're Tragic. And Romantic. *sniffs* "Not half as much as they loved each other..") Anyway, so after finally popping off at two in the morning >.< I wake to thunder and rain, OMG SO MUCH RAIN. But I get into work on time and settle down, and things are basically normal- except, after my supervisor spent a bored twenty minutes reading my CV and coming out to ask me "So, you know Latin, then?"
"Um, only a little."
"No, you know a lot!"
"Well, only up till sixth form."
"Say something in Latin"
*should have said "Ave, Caesar... etc" but instead* "Well you don't actually learn to speak it..." Cue brief history of Latin and its importance and that no, no-one still speaks it today (I have enormous respect for Carla as a supervisor, but she don't know shit about languages...) and basic language geekery about kings speaking Latin.
Anyway, apart from their venture with me into the land of Geek (my one true home) things were normal until two in the afternoon, when... the electronic tills start blinking. And then they break, totally. They're computer run, and the damn things FROZE. ASAGHDAHJ. This is why TECHONOLOGY SUCKS and we should use books for everything. Like MANUALS. Manuals would be such a brilliant creation. Man. Anyway, they BREAK and we spend the rest pf the afternoon doing nothing until half an hour before i'm due to get off Carla decides we have to do MANUAL SALES. OMG. THIS IS A HUGE IRREDEEMABLE HEADACHE and if I walk in there tomorrow and have to write down barcodes, descriptions, price and cash given and THEN WORK OUT CHANGE (this is fine for one or two items per purchase, but for ten it SUCKS) I will go STARKERS.
Anyway, it was fairly funny (except for this one total cow, but hey, it's retail.) I suspect I have failed to transmit this humour but oh well, I'm laughing remembering it. XD
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Date: 2004-12-16 05:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-16 06:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-16 06:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-16 06:37 am (UTC)I lie
*ahem*
canis est in via. canis est in culina. coquus est in culina. canis est coquus.
Did you learn from the Cambridge course?
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Date: 2004-12-16 07:11 am (UTC)No, nor can I, except nil illegitimi carborundum and assorted other dog phrases. :p I can translate okay, simple stuff. (Canis est coquus?? *chokes splutters*)
Yeah, I did!! Now all I can see is Grumio with a dog's head. It's really freaking me out.
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Date: 2004-12-16 07:23 am (UTC)AT the end of last year my teacher gave our Latin class our old Cambridge textbooks as a present. He even found the copies with our names in them, awwww.
So... I'm totally learning the Red Book again! Have got halfway through it so far... just passed the chapter about Celer the pictor. *giggle*
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Date: 2004-12-16 08:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-16 08:40 am (UTC)And other assorted latinian from the Disc...
But I did take Greek at Stage 1 for two papers. I would have loved to go further but no Greek Language at Massey *pouts*
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Date: 2006-12-11 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-12 12:05 am (UTC)But, dude. I totally remember this day, and it *sucked balls*. We should have shut the shop, seriously, no-one was happy at allllll. :P