All in a Day’s Work
Thanks to working from home together, some couples have learned quite a bit about each other:
✦ Hearing my wife in meetings and it dawns on me that she uses personnel management techniques on me all the time.
— @Remoteclancy
✦ A funny thing about quarantining is hearing your partner in full work mode for the first time. Like, I’m married to a “let’s circle back” guy—who knew?
— @Inlauraswords
✦ I’m married to the guy who calls everyone “Chief.”
— @Mariancutler
Our local pet store’s pandemic rules were laid out on a sign that read, “Please maintain
Your salary is just your company’s monthly subscription of you.
— @twotweetsnotice
six feet between you and others. That’s two Great Danes, four cats, or 16 hamsters.” —Peggy Holt
Salinas, California
A coworker at our auto auction was having trouble starting one of the cars. Looking defeated, he
complained, “The only thing that’s working is the blinker on the check-engine light.” —Dennis Marquardt Elmore, Ohio
I wrote “William Shakespeare (1564–1616)” on the whiteboard, and a sixth grader asked, “Is that Shakespeare’s real phone number?” —Weareteachers.com
While celebrating an auspicious milestone, our university medical school ordered 2,000 pens with the inscription “Faculty of Medicine” to hand out to guests. When the pens arrived, all 2,000 had this inauspicious message: “Faulty of Medicine.”
—ROBERT HALSTEAD Winnipeg, Canada
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Client: Hi, how much does a brochure cost to print?
Me: Before I answer, I need a bit more information, such as size, pages, and how many— Client: Well, if you want to be that difficult, I’ll just find someone else. —clientsfromhell.net