Stressed-Out Flunky
I remembered today what the story I was going to tell about Flunky was...
Thursday he had a visit from a less-than-chuffed customer (female), who gave him a hard time over something that hadn't arrived yet (and, in fairness, wasn't his fault... it wasn't him who had ordered it) - she wasn't shouting, just doing that angry, very controlled speaking... and threatened to stand and wait until the boss came back (conveniently, he was out).
Poor Flunky was really high and stressed out after she'd gone... muttering about how he would walk if her stuff hadn't been ordered and she came in and gave him a roasting like that again (he REALLY shouldn't make rash statements like that... or get my hopes up...).
So, I gave him a shot of my stressball - and he burst it!
(Okay, so it had been lying a little in the sun, and may have been a bit perished coz of that fact, but my stressball got a hole in him, and all the goop inside started coming out!).
Our stressed-out Flunky killed my stressball!
(But it was very funny to listen to him all indignant)...
Thursday he had a visit from a less-than-chuffed customer (female), who gave him a hard time over something that hadn't arrived yet (and, in fairness, wasn't his fault... it wasn't him who had ordered it) - she wasn't shouting, just doing that angry, very controlled speaking... and threatened to stand and wait until the boss came back (conveniently, he was out).
Poor Flunky was really high and stressed out after she'd gone... muttering about how he would walk if her stuff hadn't been ordered and she came in and gave him a roasting like that again (he REALLY shouldn't make rash statements like that... or get my hopes up...).
So, I gave him a shot of my stressball - and he burst it!
(Okay, so it had been lying a little in the sun, and may have been a bit perished coz of that fact, but my stressball got a hole in him, and all the goop inside started coming out!).
Our stressed-out Flunky killed my stressball!
(But it was very funny to listen to him all indignant)...
1 comment:
He should try working in a bookshop at this time of year...where all the students have left it too late to order specialist books..I've got one today, who will come in demand their specialist vet book and then go balistic (yet again) at me when I tell her (yet again) that it is taking 5 days to come in.
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