On a normal day at the office, there are 3 to 5 people in our department here. We all have plenty of job security.
Today, it’s just me. On Friday, it’s most often three people. However, the department head will be at a meeting out of the area all day, and the other guy took a vacation day. Furthermore, this morning I had a conference call with programmers from India. So, yeah, this was one of the worst possible days to schedule that.
It took 2 hours for me to solve the programming problem that should have taken 30 minutes, and I managed to look like a complete moron on the phone with a passenger because I couldn’t get information on when a flight left. Plus, we normally send a report in the morning which was obviously delayed, receiving an e-mail about when that was going to be finished. And I think it had some slightly inaccurate information (they will be bugging me pretty soon, methinks.)
Looking at this flight manifest (list of passengers), at the bottom it states that an asterisk by the passenger name “indicates babe in arms”. While there were no passengers denoted with an asterisk this time around, the whole concept should make all of us a little uneasy…
who cares if there are babes in their arms? what, are they just bragging? Do they get better service due to their babe-ness? Honestly isn’t that taking the “pretty people get farther in life” thing a little too far?
Just kidding. Aren’t babies supposed to have a car seat on a plane?
5 people? Did you guys get the new hire finally?
@Annie: Funny, we each got a different pun out of it. I was thinking of infants carrying machine guns. (Some crackpot psychologist would undoubtedly tell us that you are a latent lesbian and I will go postal someday.)
Babies can go as lap children on plane.
@Allen: Including Diedre, but we did get another guy, yes.