Offers and requests

Assistant: Yeah, we need one of those industrial-sized–
Director: Oh, I know, you can shred a baby in one of those things!

1050 Thomas Jefferson Street NW
Washington, DC

Interviewer: Tell us about your experience working with a team on a shared goal. We have a team environment here. We carry each other’s balls all the time.

6275 Neil Road
Reno, Nevada

Office Worker: This file won’t unzip! Unzip, you! Dammit, unzip!
Supervisor: You should try sweet talking it a little bit. Maybe you should buy it dinner first.

105 North Hudson Avenue
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Manager: You all need to help out and pull a shift in the Concierge Department. This is what team work is all about. I make too much money to help in the Concierge Department.

47 East Beaver Creek Boulevard
Avon, Colorado

Assistant: If you want to see how dusty the floor is, just look at the heels on my shoes.
Project Manager: Oh, I thought you were telling me to look at your knees.

1100 West Anderson Court
Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Project Engineer: If you expect me to do quality work I’m going to need a raise.

10 West Mifflin Street
Madison, Wisconsin

Client on speaker: I need one of those lights that you put on the camera, and a metal thing, and also the curly thing.
Rental Department: So you need a flash, a stroboframe bracket and the off-camera cord?
Client on speaker: Yeah, sure, I guess. Oh, and do you have one of these things that see the light?
Rental Department: A flash meter you mean?
Client on speaker: Sure, I guess.
Rental Department: Sir, are you the photographer?
Client on speaker: Yes, why?

1111 North Cherry Street
Chicago, Illinois

CSR on phone: Sir, would you mind slowing down just a little bit?You’re really giving me a lot of information, and it’s not really
registering in my brain because I’m still trying to type in all the
other crap you told me.

5129 Beverly Glen Village Lane
Norcross, Georgia

Worker: Dude, come look at my cubicle.
Manager: You mean you weren’t working?
Worker: No, I had to decorate.

1700 Market Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tech Support: Okay, I need you to go to a command prompt and type
“‘mail from:’ your email address” and this should get you a connection.
User: It didn’t work.
Tech Support: Okay, so you typed “‘mail from:’ your email address” and it didn’t work for you?
User: Wait a minute. Did you say you wanted me to type “nail” or “mail”?

1010 Niagara Street
Buffalo, New York