Office Angst
Not all smiles
At work I sit at my desk with my headphones on, sometimes listening to last night’s Late Junction and sometimes with no sound at all. That might explain the how I didn’t quite catch what was going on, at least I don’t think it was an aural Rorschach test.
Just now the bloke who sits next to me exclaimed ‘I fucking hate work’ with some rancour. To which the bloke opposite him responded ‘I hate myself’… Golly I thought, those are heavy sentiments for a Tuesday afternoon. That was until my brain had unscrambled the message and twigged that the first one had said ‘I fucking hate Word’ and the other ‘I hate Excel’!
Tags: angst, Excel, Microsoft Office, Rorschach test, smiley face, Word
February 5th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Thought that was quite funny. Were you drinking the night before ?
February 5th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Strangely I hadn’t and I was feeling in a relatively good mood. But it does sound like the kind of mishearing you might make after a heavy night or when suffering from a fit of melancholy. Odd!