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Petty

9 December, 2008
Posted in: Work

I like my job and I like my colleagues but due to a series of administrative glitches, I do not yet have an office.   I try to be above caring but I do not like it oh no I do not. I am huddled in a large room with other people.  I want to be alone so that I can talk to my childminder in private or even concentrate on some work.  Nor do I particularly want to hear other people’s phone conversations.  Due to a series of canny career choices, I have not had to share office space very often in my professional life and I am not enjoying it on this occasion.

I am being driven demented by the two lovely, lovely men who work in the corner and have some rather annoying verbal tics.

Lovely man 1:  Well, they won’t be attending the meeting as such.

Lovely man 2: I can only say they ought to be there.

Lovely man 1: They would know that as such.

LM2: I can only say the chair will be disappointed.

LM1: They will be sending their apologies as such.

LM2: Will they?  I can only say that it is a mistake not to come.

I was cruelly telling a friend this and asked whether I had any verbal tics and was quite disconcerted to find that he said, with some relief, “yes, you say fabulous all the time”.

I imagine that when I am not there, scene in the corner goes something like this.

LM1: It’s not that I object to the word ‘fabulous’ as such.

LM2: I can only say that it’s a good word in its place.

LM1: It’s just that she says it all the time as such.

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