11-11-2005, 04:59 PM
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Is it time to get up?
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Barbados
Posts: 4,672
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As work was coming to an end one day, i thought i'd wait for my co-worker to join my for the cycle ride home. After agreeing this, he aswered the phone and a seemingly unending conversation occured.
After a while i returned to my desk on a different floor, occasionally phoning him only to find he was engaged. Then i remembered that the phones had a "callback-on-busy" facility so i set it up. This ment that the minute he put his phone down, it would auto-dial mine.... when I pick it up, his rings. Ten minutes later he is still on the phone and in my boredom i set all the phones on my floor to do call-back-on-busy. By the time i left the building after giving up on him, nealry every phone in the building was targetting his phone.
Well, i soon forgot all about it and several weeks went by. I found myself in the most boring management meeting. What woke me up was talk of the budget and why we were $4,000 lower than we should be (and this was about 10 years ago). "it was that engineer call out... and he couldn't find anything wrong. All i know is that Dave and I were running about like idiots picking up all the phones that kept rining at random..."
Well, i did feel quite sick for a while... but no one could possibly tell it was me... i never did confess, that would hae been a hangning offence, lol.
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