Office Life

[NickM]

We have a "chatty" (for which read: rather annoying) temp in this place at the moment. Yesterday she was off with "food poisoning". This morning she returned, and to lend verisimilitude to her single day of absence gave us a long description of how ill she had been, of all the things she had been told by her Chinese herbalist not to eat, and of how difficult she was finding it to replenish fluids... Apparently she was very violently sick. So much so that she was unable to give a description of the sputum, having been "nearly fainting".

Oddly, considering the length of this unasked-for self-justifying discourse, she seemed a bit miffed when I asked whether she had stopped dribbling nasty brown stuff yet...

 

[Paulus]

Maybe she's just one of those people who like the sound of their own voice?

 

[Fnaar]

so she got pissed and spent the day sleeping it off, then?

 

[Maz]

She sounds alright to me. Sure you're not being too harsh on her, Nick?

 

[domtyler]

I say you should compliment her on her hair next time you see her to make up for it.

 

[Dayvo]

Time to terminate her temporaryness!

 

[yello]

Benefit of doubt where it's due. Maybe she was genuinely sick, is feeling guilty about it and feels the need to justify it. Temps don't get sick pay (do they??? didn't in my day!) so it's really not in her interests to scive just yet. Besides, if it's anything like any of the temp positions I've had, it's boring as and the bosses haven't got a clue why she's there either!

 

[fossyant]

Oh, in the last company I worked in, we had a temp that covered on reception - large, old and abrupt......

I only zarked up the phone when she called me once.... put phone down.... "Oh it's that arsey bitch on reception"...only the phone wasn't down........

 

[Over The Hill]

We have a "chatty" (for which read: rather annoying) temp in this place at the moment. Yesterday she was off with "food poisoning". This morning she returned, and to lend verisimilitude to her single day of absence gave us a long description of how ill she had been, of all the things she had been told by her Chinese herbalist not to eat, and of how difficult she was finding it to replenish fluids... Apparently she was very violently sick. So much so that she was unable to give a description of the sputum, having been "nearly fainting".

Oddly, considering the length of this unasked-for self-justifying discourse, she seemed a bit miffed when I asked whether she had stopped dribbling nasty brown stuff yet...

It is called a woman. They do tend to talk a lot about things you really dont want to know about.

I know more about the people in my mothers street than the people in my own street!