Contextual Errors In The Field Of Employment
This is the continuing adventures of colleague man. Actually, this time it’s not the same colleague man as before, but what the hell, I’ll pretend that they are both part of some super gestalt entity called ‘colleague man’.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, Colleague Man was talking to Different Department Lady about one of his systems. She was asking him whether or not any changes to it had been made recently, since he was about to go off on holiday for two weeks, and she didn’t want any unexpected things happening, like the system automatically dialling the emergency services in the middle of the night, or anything like that.
Fortunately, he was able to put her mind at rest.
“No,” quoth he, leaning back in his chair and stretching his arms out behind his head. “I’ve done absolutely nothing all week.”
To those who’d been privy to the entire conversation, it was obvious that he was meaning I have taken no action relating to that system. To those not privy to that conversation, such as Heap Big Chief Fella, who happened to be walking past at that precise moment, all they were aware of was someone lounging around casually in a chair bragging that they’d been doing no work.
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Sounds like the kind of thing I tend to blurt out from time to time.
I say, good for him. If HBCF has a problem with what he heard (or thinks he heard) he should raise it with colleague man who will be able to clear everything up (albeit making HBCF man look like a bit of an idiot in the process).
If HBCF has an issue, and doesn’t raise it, he has no right being HBCF in the first place and clearly got to that position via luck, nepotism, or a mixture of both.
Ah no, HBCF has more savvy and more sense of humour than that. It was just that I judged it better to end the post on somewhat of a cliffhanger. If I had revealed “everything was okay but there was some amount of piss-taking” it may have reduced the impact somewhat…