i remembered!
last friday i had to sit through a 6 1/2 hour inservice on disaster training. it wasn't about fires and tornados, though. it was on bio-terrorism and the like. so pointless. like this training is going to do anything. if we were attacked, the circumstances would be so different, there's no way to prepare for them all. and then we had to do a practice excercise (which the presenter called an 'ekshersize') on how we would do a practice excercise.
it was the longest 6 1/2 hours ever. i was so seriously exhausted by the time it was all over. i told my boss to feel free to schedule me for 3 doubles in a row (my limit is 2 before i go insane) - just don't ever make me go to one of those again. brutal.
oh, and to make it worse, one of the presenters said 'um' 1,034 times. i counted.
posted by melilotnfosco | 5:11 PM
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lol, sorry you had to go through that... especially without a jim to lean on ;)
i was very disappointed that the good-looking maintenance guy had the inservice a different day. he's no jim halpert, but he at least woulda been something to look at.
:D ...and maybe you guys could exchange looks every time you heard the presenter say "ekshercise" or whatever ;)
seriously, who says that? she doesn't pronounce anything else weird, just that, which i think makes it more annoying.
one of my old bosses always said "converzations" and it drove me crazy!! (and yeah, same thing -- that was the only word he said weird)
oh yes, and the 'um' presenter ended sentences with 'and that' so many times that i had karol count when she went to the meeting a week later. she stopped counting after 124.
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