Posted by Rio S.
If you are an average young underpaid professional – meaning carless – you have been and continue to trek through the First Circle of Yuppie Hell: commuting to and from work. Commuting is a long and treacherous experience in itself, as well as wrought with irony. In my experience, defying the laws of physics (specifically the one that states that only one body can occupy one space at one time) on a daily basis, never mind the drivers who were kamikaze pilots in their past lives, is a bit trying on my patience.
Now, on a really unlucky day, you might find yourself face to face with bastards who can’t seem to keep their hands to themselves. Thankfully, that type of scum has kept their distance from me, but a couple of my friends were not so lucky. Actually, I think the unluckier ones were the bastards themselves.
One morning, I dragged my carcass to the office and a colleague came up to me as soon as I open the door, “Have you heard about Mai’s two-hit combo?”
Me: Two-hit combo? Nope, what’s that?
Colleague, whom we shall henceforth call Ahorney recounts: Well, a barker at the bus stop touched her inappropriately and well, she gave him a one-two.
(He demonstrated what a “one-two” was.) It was a knee to the barker’s ouchie area and when he doubled over, she delivered an elbow to the back of said barker’s neck. more…
Posted by Rio S.
There are times when keeping your mouth shut is the best way to go – especially when somebody says, “Maybe you should handle the team building.” and your life becomes a living hell afterwards. Now, the folks featured in this new wave of Yuppie Humor stories shouldn’t have just kept their mouths shut, but their voices down too.
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Posted by Rio S.
Okay, so another hell week’s coming to a close and you’re probably gagging from the toxic office week by now. When things are bad, when it’s a miracle you haven’t succumbed to the temptation of coming to the office armed with a semi-automatic and with the intention of mowing down everybody in sight (including the sneering guy who occupies a cubicle beside yours), it’s important to laugh. That said here’s another round of Office Humor stories.
My friend Elaine tells this funny overheard from her former office:
Agent: Sir, that’s Emerson. E like in Egg, M like in Emerson… more…
Posted by Rio S.
During my first call center stint, I was a tech support agent for a couple of consumer electronics companies. For your entertainment (and mine), let me share a couple of my stories. Whether it’s funny or sad (or both) purely depends on how you look at them. Here goes.
Somebody calls and I run her through the routine questions. I ask for the model number of the unit:
Caller: Where can I find the model number on my refrigerator?
Me: But ma’am, Aiwa deals only in consumer electronics. We don’t have refrigerators.
Caller: But my refrigerator is an Aiwa.
Me: Are you sure ma’am? Check the refrigerator door and see if it says A-I-W-A, Aiwa.
The line promptly goes dead.
Now, I’d like to think that that was an honest mistake, but this second story just takes the cake. more…
