Thursday, October 22, 2009

● 16 Speaking of.... nicer ways in Swenglish?!

The answer is sadly no. Herding cats is what I have been doing the last months, but noone would understand my point if i said I was busy "valla katter"!


My latest cat to herd is definitely a bossy one... My boss. She's the kind that makes a point of always working late, looking ash-grey and stressed, while putting her energy on all the wrong details instead of actually doing her own job instead of ours.
The other day, as I was preparing to leave, she showed up, hair-on-end, and asked me "how do you write mobile phone numbers?!!" and when I asked why (tired) she explained, we have to agree on how we type in the dialling code when we register customers in the new business system. Again, I asked why...!??
"Why, in case we someday want to sort the customers by phone numbers, we have to decide if we write the dialling code with 3 or 4 digits before the dash!!"



Why, of course. Silly me!