Miscellaneous
Here are a few things I have realized in the past few days.
1. Apparently there is bathroom etiquette at work. I did not know (but was informed this morning) that if you are already in the stall you can address others who walk in, but if you walk in you should not address those already in the stalls. I assume this rule was set due to the possible inability to respond. Not really sure.
2. I think Australians dislike the letter "z". I'm looking to you Andy for this one. (Of course my being an ethnocentric American may already be the answer.)
3. Everyone breaks the acceptable use policy for the internet at work.
4. You get a lot of attention if you don't realize the button on your blouse is undone and your entire bra is hanging out as you drive through the guard gate of a military base. (Learned this one first hand, my friends.)
5. As soon as you say the words, "It will be ok as long as ________ doesn't happen." That exact thing will happen. (This works for bosses finding out you're a slacker, cars breaking down, and incliment weather.)
6. It is probably a good idea to go straight to the lunchroom when you are carrying a banana. Taking a bathroom break (even thought the bathroom is on the way) leaves way too much explaining to do when your male coworkers see you walk out of the bathroom with a banana in your hand (yes...this one was me too.)
Who says you don't learn anything new?
1. Apparently there is bathroom etiquette at work. I did not know (but was informed this morning) that if you are already in the stall you can address others who walk in, but if you walk in you should not address those already in the stalls. I assume this rule was set due to the possible inability to respond. Not really sure.
2. I think Australians dislike the letter "z". I'm looking to you Andy for this one. (Of course my being an ethnocentric American may already be the answer.)
3. Everyone breaks the acceptable use policy for the internet at work.
4. You get a lot of attention if you don't realize the button on your blouse is undone and your entire bra is hanging out as you drive through the guard gate of a military base. (Learned this one first hand, my friends.)
5. As soon as you say the words, "It will be ok as long as ________ doesn't happen." That exact thing will happen. (This works for bosses finding out you're a slacker, cars breaking down, and incliment weather.)
6. It is probably a good idea to go straight to the lunchroom when you are carrying a banana. Taking a bathroom break (even thought the bathroom is on the way) leaves way too much explaining to do when your male coworkers see you walk out of the bathroom with a banana in your hand (yes...this one was me too.)
Who says you don't learn anything new?
posted by Sherri at 7:11 AM
2 Comments:
Forgive me for polarizsing the different azspectsz of the linguizsticsz of Engliszh.
By the way... aluminum has an extra syllable, too. It's "aluminium"...
say it with me... a-loo-min-ee-um
You know, like magnesium, and uranium.
I am, of course, being an idiot.
And it's not that Australians have any particular problem with the letter z, it's just that some brain in the ministry of newspeak decided it was too hard to remember what words properly ended -ise and which ones ended -ize so just replaced all the esses with zeds (or zees, depending on your particular version of English).
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