Your Most Interesting thing from Work.

I flew an early Airbus A380 simulator on full hydraulics. I know its not that interesting, but I'm a solicitor, so it was better than pushing paper around my desk!

Originally Posted by hindle8907

I once sent an email to a high up customer asking him if he had green snot in his nickers by mistake.
hehhehe !

Ha! I feel your pain.
At my previous employ we worked there at the same time they announced you could send a text to a land line and a woman voice reads it to the recipient. So we were messing about sending messages to the direct dials we all had, one lad wondered if it would read or bleep out insulting profanity. Like a mug I opt'd to try it out, after 15mins of no one's phone in the office ringing we began to question if it had been stopped by the exchange.
I then got a call on my phone to go to the bosses office, the big cheese was struggling to keep a straight face while he told me to wait for my gaffer to get off the phone.
Its around this point I notice my mobile number is written on a piece of paper on a desk between the pair. Brain starts working... Big cheese see's me see the number and slaps his thigh in amusement.
My gaffer finishes on the phone, turns to me and asks:
"Did you not think I would be smart enough to work out who sent the message?"
(I said nothing, I could just feel myself sweating... a lot)
"So you think I'm a big fat fu*k*ng ugly smelly w*n*er, do you"

At this point the big cheese is in tears with laughter.
I offered my explanation which went down like a high school geek at freshers week.
After been sent back to my desk to "stop dic*ing about" I shut the door behind me to hear the big cheese say "you are fuc*ing ugly though" then hysterics from the pair.
Needless to say after the inquisition from my peers in the office we too had a good laugh about it all.

Originally Posted by Aidan

I flew an early Airbus A380 simulator on full hydraulics. I know its not that interesting, but I'm a solicitor, so it was better than pushing paper around my desk!

I make the hydraulic systems for the A380. Glad you only flew the simulator

[hindle8907]

Originally Posted by Owenski

Ha! I feel your pain.
At my previous employ we worked there at the same time they announced you could send a text to a land line and a woman voice reads it to the recipient. So we were messing about sending messages to the direct dials we all had, one lad wondered if it would read or bleep out insulting profanity. Like a mug I opt'd to try it out, after 15mins of no one's phone in the office ringing we began to question if it had been stopped by the exchange.
I then got a call on my phone to go to the bosses office, the big cheese was struggling to keep a straight face while he told me to wait for my gaffer to get off the phone.
Its around this point I notice my mobile number is written on a piece of paper on a desk between the pair. Brain starts working... Big cheese see's me see the number and slaps his thigh in amusement.
My gaffer finishes on the phone, turns to me and asks:
"Did you not think I would be smart enough to work out who sent the message?"
(I said nothing, I could just feel myself sweating... a lot)
"So you think I'm a big fat fu*k*ng ugly smelly w*n*er, do you"

At this point the big cheese is in tears with laughter.
I offered my explanation which went down like a high school geek at freshers week.
After been sent back to my desk to "stop dic*ing about" I shut the door behind me to hear the big cheese say "you are fuc*ing ugly though" then hysterics from the pair.
Needless to say after the inquisition from my peers in the office we too had a good laugh about it all.

Quality hahaha

For a while they had Tom baker reading out the messages.

Sent a few to guys at work along the lines of : "this is doctor who, I've come from the future to warn you that you must make Adam and paddy cups of tea or bad things will happen"

[Nobbylad]

Originally Posted by The Idle Biker

I used to work for BT at the time at which it was being privatised. One element of privatisation meant that the new competition had to have access to the BT exchanges to install all their equipment.

These exchanges often had Canteens, games rooms and Bars (yes real Bars with booze from 12-2 and lock-ins). Our turf (der)

All staff had a briefing on how to greet the competition, work with them, how it was important under Offcom regulations to provide access and equal facilities.

Day 1, twenty or so, Mercury engineers turn up in the canteen. Row ensues between the BT and Mercury guys. Massive all hands on punch up. Cowboy bar room brawl. Lasts for 20 minutes with BT taking the honours and Mercury guys fleeing the building.

Pathetic really, but we were young then. We got suspended for 3 weeks without pay. That was an interesting day.

lol! You used to work for Tommy Telecom? I'm surprised you spent 20 mins brawling without stopping for a brew

Originally Posted by dkid413

I make the hydraulic systems for the A380. Glad you only flew the simulator

As I crashed it, I was glad it was just the simulator.

[Supervox]

I DON'T work for MI6 but I still can't tell you anything

[Jayneflakes]

Wow, when did the Org become B3ta? As a regular QOWer, I have a few of these.

Have I ever told you about the creepy bloke I met while working for well known car parts and cycle store? While working behind the Cycle desk, building a kids bike, I was approached for help by a couple in their fifties. As we talked the woman started to get quite cold towards me and then walked out, dragging her husband with her. Thinking nothing of it, I returned to my work.

A couple of days later the chap came back on his own and apologised for his wife's behavior. It turns out that they were experiencing marriage difficulties and he desperately needed to talk to some one. Why he chose to talk to me, I cannot imagine, but maybe telling his wife that he had been experimenting with blokes was not the best idea. Taking photos of himself doing it, probably only made it worse for her, finding out that he had been wearing her clothes at the time was probably too much to take. You then have to ask, why did he share the photos on line?!

My boss, a young guy in his late twenties, nearly wet himself when I explained why my customer had been talking for so long! I was legendary at that store, I got all of the strange ones, it was like they deliberately waited for me.

The Polish put photo's on their CV's. Started up a new call centre out there as part of an off shoring exercise and had to do the recruitment (a few years before the polish started coming here in great numbers). The photo's on the CV's were used to their full potential, and we filled a call centre with 200 beautiful young women. Then had some very interesting nights out in Krakow