Training the secretaries
Posted by Abel on 19 Feb 2007 at 10:35 am | Tagged as: Perverting Reality
The ground floor of the office in which I’m working at the moment has large, expensive TV monitors switched for most of the day to the BBC’s News 24 channel.
It’s fascinating to pause and watch the real-time subtitling on these rolling news channels. Their high-speed misinterpretations can be quite wonderful to behold: last week, for example, I learned that “Tony Blair has been killed this morning by MPs - correction ‘grilled’.”
Anyway… A notice has appeared recently, announcing that:
“Only the secretaries that have been trained are allowed to use these screens.”
I’m torn in two directions. First, I wonder where they keep the untrained secretaries: wild women, fighting, flinging computers across the room, hurling abuse at their bosses.
And then I picture the secretaries in training. Collared; demure; obedient; their trainers instilling the necessary discipline with regular cracks of the whip.
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Gosh! I hope that they are well paid. I’d like to think that there is a little extra in their pay packet each week - in the form of ‘danger’ money!!
I’d like to sign up for the training. Perhaps if you see a sign saying “Secretarial position vacant” you can let me know.
I’m torn too: I’m not sure which would be more fun in this context - being trained or being untrained
Well you have to be untrained before you can be trained, right? So you get to have it both ways Minxette.
Megs: To clarify, do you mean you are in a naturally untrained state in the first instance and therefore require training, or do you mean that the bosses first have to untrain you in order to RETRAIN you in their own mold? Twice the fun, or twice the distress, depending on your inclination!! LOL
I think either way works!