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Trapped!
I have somehow managed to be left alone in the office, where I don't even usually work, with only one of the new part-time interns who doesn't speak French and who doesn't actually start work until next week. I thought the others were just stepping out, but it's been hours. I'm going to want to eat lunch at some point, but someone's going to need to answer the phone and have scintillating conversations like this:
me: "Abbaye de P---------, bonjour."
person on phone: "Bonjour, est-ce que je peux parler avec [Coworker X]?"
me: ""En fait, elle est pas au bureau en ce moment... vous voulez laisser un message?"
person: "Eh, ben, c'est à propos du machin avec le truc pour le spectacle des choses et donc peut-être que vous pourriez me donner la réponse?"
me: "Ben.... moi, je ne sais rien sur rien... je suis là pour répondre au téléphone et toutes les autres m'ont abandonnée... alors, il y a personne ici qui sait quoi que ce soit et ça aurait peut-être été mieux si je n'aurais pas décroché le téléphone."
person: "Alors... je vais peut-être laisser un message, donc."
me: (writing down message) "Ok, donc elle devrait envoyer... un document... à une femme... à tel ou tel numéro... et c'est à propos de? Oui, d'accord, le machin avec le truc pour le spectacle des choses. Ouais, c'est très clair. Je lui dirai. Merci, au revoir."
I don't usually work in the office, so I have no clue about the everyday goings-on of the abbey or about any of the events held here. I just hope I'm not the only one who doesn't understand a word of what he was talking about...
srah - Thursday, 17 June 2004 - 6:30 AM
Tags: the abbey
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Comments (9)
Cheryl - June 17, 2004 - 3:19 PM - ℓ
I hate taking messages. That sounds a little like ones I took when I worked in OT...except mine were in English. But sitting answering the phones was better than sitting pretending I was doing work when I'd finished it all by noon and now had four hours of work left.
Cheryl - June 17, 2004 - 3:20 PM - ℓ
PS It is like french 3...good thing we learned from Mrs. H....
Every time you say "the abbey" I start seeing Julie Andrews... "how do you solve a problem like Maria" and so on.