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Thu 16 Dec, 2010 08:21 pm
Ok, here I am. Everyone else is at Christmas Lunch at a fabulous hotel.
I have had 3 days of awful gastro, and cannot face the food, so I am sitting here on Duty talking to you.
Our phones won't be working, and only very urgent calls will come through to me on a work mobile.
Given my state, I shall be in the loo quite a lot.
It feels really yucky to take someone else's phone into the loo with me!!!! But if it rings it will be urgent.
I think I need to take it with me.
Is that too disgusting?
(We have germicidal wipes.)
@dlowan,
I might add that I haven't been paid...(sob)...my boss didn't put my time-sheet in.
@dlowan,
Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. And a little alone time just might be your only salvation.
Are you expected to mingle at this affair?
@dlowan,
you will, of course, burn the phone when you're finished, yes...?
@dlowan,
I think you need to take it in with you too.
That truly sucks about the pay.
Truly, not a word I use much, but it fits.
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:I have had 3 days of awful gastro, so I am sitting here on Duty talking to you.
you Australian types have such interesting terms for things!
I'll have to remember that. "just a minute. I've got to go on Duty before we get in the car."
Excellent!
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the industrial sani-wipes will be fine.
I hope your wonky gut is better soon.
Hello, this is . . .
Whoops.
<Splash>
Uh-oh.
Oh...I am at work...not the lovely hotel.
It rang!!! And I was out of the loo....but it has been in there with me. It feels like a guilty secret.
I shall wipe with the sani-whatsits and be silent.
On Duty is not a euphemism for being enthroned.
Actually, I am a little hungry, but I just discovered I left my wallet at home.
gadzooks!!!
@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:
I think you need to take it in with you too.
That truly sucks about the pay.
Truly, not a word I use much, but it fits.
Hopefully I shall be paid by tomorrow (Saturday.)
@dlowan,
Our fingers will be crossed for you from now on until you tell us you got paid.
@tsarstepan,
and get corked up again...
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:
Our fingers will be crossed for you from now on until you tell us you got paid.
Awww...thank you. Hell, you even know about the fire brigade event last night!!!!
@dlowan,
Oh my.
Just stole a little tub of yoghurt.
Also raided the first aid box for panadol. No panadol. I DID find the special bag for keeping amputated body parts in though.
@dlowan,
It
is too disgusting if for the person on the other end of the phone it is suddenly made clear where you are and what you are doing.
I'd burn
my phone if I was that guy.
You don't get sick days where you work?
@Finn dAbuzz,
Like I'd tell them!!!
Yes, we get sick days....but I am relatively a lot better...and some other poor bastard would have had to cover for me if I didn't show up on a Duty day. Seemed fortuitous that I wasn't well enough to go and eat but WAS well enough to to do my job.
Such is the great warp and weft of life.
@dlowan,
"Like I'd tell them!!!"
You could always say that your place of work is near a bird sanctuary, and that the intermittent noises in the background are flocks of starlings taking off.
Youre not operating a video phone, are you? If so, try not to frame the cistern in the background, and make every effort not to contort your facial features.
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