| Idiots At Work - Chronicles Of Workplace
Stupidity
A WEIGHTY SUBJECT
A woman called a travel agent
and asked, "Do airlines
put your physical description on your bag so they know
whose luggage belongs to who?" The agent replied, "No,
why do you ask?" The timid sounding woman said, "Well,
when I checked in with the airline, they put a tag on
my luggage that said FAT, and I'm overweight, is there
any connection?" After putting her on hold for a minute while
the agent regained her composure she explained to the woman
that the city code
for Fresno is FAT, and that the airline was just putting
a destination tag on her luggage. Makes you wonder if the
woman saw the word “terminal” on her luggage if she
would have thought she was really sick.
A REAL TRAVEL ADVENTURE
A rather confused woman called to make
reservations; "I
want to go from Chicago to Hippopotamus, New York." Needless
to say, the agent was rather confused by the request. "Are
you sure that's the name of the town?" "Yes, I’m
sure," said the client. "What flights to you have?" The
agent got on the computer and tried every airport code in the
country but couldn't come up with a city named Hippopotamus.
She finally got back on the phone and told the person on the
other end that she had had no luck locating a city with that
name. "Oh, don't be silly. Everyone knows where it is. Check
your map!" The agent scoured the map of New York state looking
for any city that might vaguely sound or look like Hippopotamus.
Finally, and as a last ditch effort; asked the woman, "You
don’t, by any chance mean Buffalo, do you?" "Oh,
right, that's it. I knew it was a big animal."
YOUR BRAIN - DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT
IT A woman had just purchased several items she
needed from a department store and was handed the credit
card receipt to
sign. The cashier
noticed that the back of the woman’s credit card wasn't
signed and told her she couldn't complete the transaction
without a signed card. The woman was slightly confused
by this request but complied and signed the back of the
card immediately
after signing the receipt. The cashier took both the receipt
and the card, held them up, and compared the signature.
Surprisingly they matched.
THAT'S JUST GOOFY!
The management of Walt Disney World, after
two months of negotiation, finally relented and no longer
makes the costume character actors
share their underwear. Before the final settlement the
actors were only allowed to wear Disney provided underwear
that were
laundered and passed out randomly. The actor complained
to management that the underwear was often not clean,
smelled bad, had stains
and "things have been passed around." Actors will now
be allowed to have personal underwear, that Disney will
issue, and the employees can take home and launder themselves.
Of course
this won't affect the character of Donald Duck because,
as we know, he doesn’t wear any pants.
WORKING YOUR WAY UP FROM THE BOTTOM
A "Whistleblower" is someone who discovers and then
reports illegal or unscrupulous activity in the workplace. One
vigilant British worker, who obviously had some spare time on
his hands or intestinal problems, measured several rolls of toilet
paper and found they only had 200 sheets as opposed to the 320
sheets stated in the contract with the supplier. His employer,
West Somerset District Council, demanded the vendor wipe the
slate clean and was awarded $28,100. The employer's compensation
for saving the company nearly $30,000? He was given a few days
off. So if the company is ever "rolled" you can be
sure who did it.
CRAZY HIRING PRACTICES
Disgruntled postal workers
turning violent has become so commonplace even the worst
stand-up comedians use it in their act. But the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission created the ultimate "punch" line
in hiring practices. An article in the Employee Relations
Law Journal explains, "Many individuals who become violent
toward customers or coworkers suffer from some form of
mental disorder.
Yet for an employer to be too careful in screening potentially
dangerous persons out of the work force is to invite liability
for discrimination under the ADA (Americans With Disabilities
Act), while to be not careful enough is to invite tragedy
and horrendous liability for negligent hire or negligent
retention." Damned
if you do - damned if you don't - and damned if it isn't
just going to get worse.
Source: Idiots
At Work Book Part
1 of 2
|
