Tales from the Dumb Side

[Vodstok]

Another Jim story, this one is a doozy.


Jim is on the phone with a user, I dont remember what her problem was. Jim was about as articulate as Sloth fro mthe goonies, so people would routinely get frustrated with his bullshit command of the english language, hang up on him and call back hoping to get someone literate to help them (typically me). Well, this woman was braveand was trying to walk through things with Jim, and base donhis instructions, was not getting it.

So Jim, in his infinite wisdom, decides to comment on it. he hits what he thinks is the mute button, and proceeds to say, in a loud voice: "This bitch is a fucking moron!"

the problem was not as simple as him just not hitting the mute button.


He hit Speakerphone.


So I hear "Oh great! thak you, that makes me feel wonderful!" from his phone, then nothing. he proceeds to bcomplain some more, then when he goes back to talk to her, she is gone. He didnt hear her response, even though everyone else did, because he was stupid and deaf.

5 minutes later our boss gets a livid call from her boss, and it took 3 days of negotiations on my boss' part, plus an emailed and written apology from dipshit to save his worthless ass.

My shock at how dumb he was was only eclipsed by my shock that he wasnt fired. It felt like santa was executed right in front of me. He was actually at that company 6 months after i was laid off.

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Nella

I agree with the first statement.

I say and do dumb things all the time but I've heard other people say they do, to. I don't know that making dumb mistakes means a person is completely dumb or not. I hope not. :o

By the way, NE, I wanted you to know that I think your movie blurbs are excellent and informative.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I have terrible short=term memory loss which is supposedly caused by a medicine I have to have. If I don't write things down, I won't remember hardly anything until I'm reminded. :o

I have the attention span of a mouse on a sugar rush, i am in the same boat. My excuse is that I recieved little to no stimulus from anyone but myself as a kid (aside from the frequent beatings my sister supplied)

[Nella]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

I have the attention span of a mouse on a sugar rush, i am in the same boat. My excuse is that I recieved little to no stimulus from anyone but myself as a kid (aside from the frequent beatings my sister supplied)

I'm really sorry that you went through that, Vod. It's terrible. :mad:

[Nella]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

Another Jim story, this one is a doozy.


Jim is on the phone with a user, I dont remember what her problem was. Jim was about as articulate as Sloth fro mthe goonies, so people would routinely get frustrated with his bullshit command of the english language, hang up on him and call back hoping to get someone literate to help them (typically me). Well, this woman was braveand was trying to walk through things with Jim, and base donhis instructions, was not getting it.

So Jim, in his infinite wisdom, decides to comment on it. he hits what he thinks is the mute button, and proceeds to say, in a loud voice: "This bitch is a fucking moron!"

the problem was not as simple as him just not hitting the mute button.


He hit Speakerphone.


So I hear "Oh great! thak you, that makes me feel wonderful!" from his phone, then nothing. he proceeds to bcomplain some more, then when he goes back to talk to her, she is gone. He didnt hear her response, even though everyone else did, because he was stupid and deaf.

5 minutes later our boss gets a livid call from her boss, and it took 3 days of negotiations on my boss' part, plus an emailed and written apology from dipshit to save his worthless ass.

My shock at how dumb he was was only eclipsed by my shock that he wasnt fired. It felt like santa was executed right in front of me. He was actually at that company 6 months after i was laid off.

:eek: That was very dumb and hateful of him. That poor woman and Jim's boss had to be upset and unnecessarily stressed by his thoughtlessness. Is he completely deaf or just hard of hearing? I can hear dialogue on TV but I can't always understand what was said, i.e it sounds like the actors are just mumbling. I listened to loud music for a big part of my life. I feel like that was dumb on my part although I did and do enjoy the music. :D

I'm sorry that YOU were laid off. I don't understand this situation. It's so unfair that things like that happen to good people. Did you at least find a decent and well-paying job after that? I hope so.

[Festered]

Originally Posted by The Flayed One

At the last warehouse I worked at we had a horrible forklift driver. The boss kept him around because he'd work for cheap because no other place would hire him.

He took out several dock doors driving the thing. One day he took out the front fender of my bosses new Mercedes. I was rolling.

He probably still works there, driving the forks

I worked for a guy just like that. He almost took out a complete doorframe, on a concrete building on South Beach, driving one. Thought he was gonna collapse the whole front of the building down on us. He was even worse with semi trucks.

[Nella]

I feel really dumb now:

I was driving a car owned by a shcool I worked for and I hit a pole. That was scary and embarrassing. Thankfully, their insurance covered the repair.

I backed my car into a grassy slope that I KNEW was there and tore up the bottom part of my bumper.

I was parking and hit the bumper of a car owned by someone I know.

My next car will have front and rear cameras. :o

[bloodrayne]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

the part of their brain that sheds the details in order to save space is VERY efficient :D

I am SOOOO using this excuse!

:D

[Nella]

This is a link to a movie about the amputation disorder:

http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Quid_Pr...6?trkid=272373

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by Nella

:eek: That was very dumb and hateful of him. That poor woman and Jim's boss had to be upset and unnecessarily stressed by his thoughtlessness. Is he completely deaf or just hard of hearing? I can hear dialogue on TV but I can't always understand what was said, i.e it sounds like the actors are just mumbling. I listened to loud music for a big part of my life. I feel like that was dumb on my part although I did and do enjoy the music. :D

I'm sorry that YOU were laid off. I don't understand this situation. It's so unfair that things like that happen to good people. Did you at least find a decent and well-paying job after that? I hope so.

My boss got what he deserved, he should have just fired the idiot 2 years before, but they were friends...

He wasnt really deaf, just stupid. He had the observational skills of a blind deaf mute, but with out the good excuse. he didnt hear her because he was busy running his mouth about how stupid she was.

For the record, they were closing up our department and outsourcing it, and after 4 years, 3 of which where i was doing web developement but still having to answer phones to make up for krietard's incompetance, i actually volunteered to be first on the chopping block. I got a nice fat severance package.

He, on the other hand, decided to give his 2 weeks notice during a conference call with the heads of IT and the CIO of the company, much to the horror and embarrasment of our boss and his boss.

last I heard, he was working for a store that sold chocolate.

[Nella]

I was using my cell phone while driving in town and I almost ran into this lady! :eek:

Am I the only one who does such idiotic things?