Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Creating My Own Fun at Work

Last week I was in training all week with the same 10 people.  They are all IT and very technical and mostly men.  I was signed up for the first part of the training and did fairly well on a new system that we purchased to do some report writing.  They kept referencing in our training the system that was the second part of the week and how it all ties together and I started feeling like I was going to be missing out on something that I needed to know.  I asked if I could attend the second part and my boss asked me if I thought that I was going to be building these "universes" and I said "no, you are".  He sent me the invite anyway and let me go to the training.  It got pretty thick on the technical creation side and I managed to at least understand what they were doing or at least I will be able to go in and do some troubleshooting.  By Friday I was done talking "code" and "technical" and "computer geek" conversation and I was getting bored.  The trainer was showing us a few websites and forums that we could go to.  He pulled up one website and said that it was the "BOB" site.  I did a double-take and then started laughing.  I couldn't help myself.  After the training was done we ordered some pizza and were all just hanging out for awhile.  I went to one of my co-workers (my ex-work husband) and said - BOB is not a good name for a website and then started laughing again.  I was really cracking myself up.  He had no idea what I was talking about.  I called my boss over and told him the same thing - BOB is not a good name for a website and started laughing and he knew what I was saying and just shook his head at me.  Yep, pretty sure he thinks I am crazy.  I told my co-worker to ask him what it stood for and he wouldn't do it.  I told him he would have to ponder it for the weekend then and when he was ready to know he could call me.  I asked my boss how long he thought it would take for him to try and figure it out and he just shook his head at me again, but I could see a smile, he thought it was funny and I was surprised he knew what I was laughing about.  I told him I was sorry, but I have to entertain myself sometimes, its how I get through life.
It took my co-worker until 4:30pm that same day to call and ask.

So are you wondering what it stands for?   If you have a bunch of girlfriends and some of them are single (key word single) and you ask them what they did they other night or weekend and they say they hung out with their boyfriend BOB, you will know or figure out what they mean.

The poor IT guys at my work must think I'm nuts after training, but oh well, it was fun and entertaining!

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