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tape a business card to yer luggage

June 30th, 2007 at 05:26 am

Saving log - $7
Spending log - $1.84 coffee, milk + $10 lunch

Heard a funny, semi-financial story at lunch today. An acquaintance (just met her, not a friend yet) told us her boss was so, ahem bossy, that she took her laptop on her honeymoon to read emails. Actually, she only could plan to take her laptop to read emails; her admin got a call from said boss that she accidentally left her laptop at the security line at the airport. The boss said, its an HP, security knows about it, please have them ship it to me at the hotel room. Fine, the admin thought, and did what was asked.

The next day the admin got a call. The boss again, a bit chastened. Got the HP just fine, but it turns out that she remembered that her laptop was really a Dell. Big Grin

Wow, I thought. This is a genius way to get an upgrade. Pick a laptop you like, leave your own crappy laptop in the security line, and just arrange for the TSA to make the delivery. Big Grin

So later on at lunch it turns out that the acquaintance is sitting through interviews. The admin is leaving.

I leaned in and said in a low voice...
You can tell us. Is she keeping the HP or the Dell?

Posted in Workplace | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “tape a business card to yer luggage”

  1. LuckyRobin Says:
    June 30th, 2007 at 05:37 am 1183181848
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    ROTFLOL Big Grin

  2. Carolina Bound Says:
    June 30th, 2007 at 12:25 pm 1183206346
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    Hilarious! I don't doubt that there are people who would try this.

  3. Joan.of.the.Arch Says:
    June 30th, 2007 at 07:47 pm 1183232842
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    Wow, we might be able to upgrade on a number of items that way. Smile As a teen, a friend told me that if I ever needed an umbrella I should just go to the movie theater where he worked and tell them I was looking for my black umbrella. He said they had a closet full of umbrellas, mostly black, and that no one ever came to claim them, so they just kept piling up. He said I could have my pick.

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