No Laughing Matter

My boss isn’t exactly what you would call ‘quick on the pickup’ some
days. We work with books, both new and used, and one day I had to
call another local store, where I was put on hold. As I was listening
to the recording, I heard, “Thank you for calling _________, where
getting USED is a good thing!”

When my boss asked me what I was laughing about, I repeated the
message and she looked at me seriously and said, “Well, of course
that’s their message. They sell used books.”

No sense of humor…at all.

Rate My Boss

I was given the task of checking into some PayPal account stuff and
spoke with a representative who then emailed me, with everything
dicussed in the email. The first line was about the rate that they
kept from what we charged through the account.

I forwarded the email to my boss, with a small explaination, just so
she could be aware.

She emailed me back, asking if we could get the rate in writing.

Hair We Go Again

I had gotten my hair cut, nothing drastic, just thinned out and
trimmed and my boss looked at me and said “You got your hair cut, did
you? It looks good, not as scraggly as before.” Then one day I decided
to curl my hair, she said “What happened to your hair?” Then told me
to go straighten it and that it looked like somebody in kindergarten
had done it. I had to call my boyfriend to bring me my straightener
and tried to do something with it, I ended up sticking it back in a
pony tail and feeling awful for the rest of the day. Later a customer
came in and asked why I had changed it because it looked pretty
curled. Grrr!

1…2…3…Lift!

I was walking by the electronics department in our store. I noticed
an associate getting ready to put a 42″ flat screen television up on
a TV stand. I stopped to help.
He said, hold on a second, and looked around. Then I noticed the
store manager come up to us with haste. He said to me, “I’m sure you
can lift this, but it just doesn’t look right.”

What he really meant was, you’re a woman and you can’t lift heavy stuff.

This has been happening to me at my job constantly.