inexplicable
Sep. 20th, 2007 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7So Z and his boss were shooting the shit yesterday, sorta dicking around, and Boss started talking about the iPhone and how neat it was. "Yeah," Z said, "[former coworker] has one."
"Of course he bought one," Boss says. ([Former Coworker] was their IT guy. He's very dorky. And awesome. And we miss him.)
"No," Z says, "his new job bought him one. Hint, hint."
Boss laughs long and hard; his Company is not very well-off and doesn't do that sort of shit. "Oh well," he says, "I can't even buy myself one-- I don't have AT&T. Neither do you. So it's moot."
"Oh, I have AT&T," Z says.
"Really?" Boss laughs at that.
Boss later goes to the Apple Store to buy a monitor adapter, which is part of another long story. He comes back, walks back to Z's desk, and tosses an Apple bag at him. "Here," he says. Z is slightly annoyed; they've hired a new IT guy and he's no longer their All-Purpose Computer Dude and as such doesn't really need to be in charge of the dang monitor adapters, but whatever, he'll take care of it. So he reaches into the bag and pulls out a small box. But not that small.
It's an iPhone.
He goes out into the warehouse, where he can see Boss is still standing, having a cigarette. "What the fuck?" he says.
Boss shrugs. "I can't have one, but somebody should."
So Z spent all last night sitting on the couch raptly making his new iPhone do stupid tricks. Meanwhile, I was at the skating rink, breaking in my new wheels, skating until I hurt all over, and stripping most of the skin off the inside toe of my outside foot. I have a blister so big I can't get any of my dress shoes on, but man, those wheels, they are sweet. The Pushers really make a big difference especially on a somewhat-dirty wooden floor that's just recently been varnished. I mean wow.
Practice starts back up October 2nd. I'm in the worst shape of my life right about now. I need this pretty bad. I can't wait. But I gotta do something about my skates giving me blisters...
"Of course he bought one," Boss says. ([Former Coworker] was their IT guy. He's very dorky. And awesome. And we miss him.)
"No," Z says, "his new job bought him one. Hint, hint."
Boss laughs long and hard; his Company is not very well-off and doesn't do that sort of shit. "Oh well," he says, "I can't even buy myself one-- I don't have AT&T. Neither do you. So it's moot."
"Oh, I have AT&T," Z says.
"Really?" Boss laughs at that.
Boss later goes to the Apple Store to buy a monitor adapter, which is part of another long story. He comes back, walks back to Z's desk, and tosses an Apple bag at him. "Here," he says. Z is slightly annoyed; they've hired a new IT guy and he's no longer their All-Purpose Computer Dude and as such doesn't really need to be in charge of the dang monitor adapters, but whatever, he'll take care of it. So he reaches into the bag and pulls out a small box. But not that small.
It's an iPhone.
He goes out into the warehouse, where he can see Boss is still standing, having a cigarette. "What the fuck?" he says.
Boss shrugs. "I can't have one, but somebody should."
So Z spent all last night sitting on the couch raptly making his new iPhone do stupid tricks. Meanwhile, I was at the skating rink, breaking in my new wheels, skating until I hurt all over, and stripping most of the skin off the inside toe of my outside foot. I have a blister so big I can't get any of my dress shoes on, but man, those wheels, they are sweet. The Pushers really make a big difference especially on a somewhat-dirty wooden floor that's just recently been varnished. I mean wow.
Practice starts back up October 2nd. I'm in the worst shape of my life right about now. I need this pretty bad. I can't wait. But I gotta do something about my skates giving me blisters...
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 01:11 pm (UTC)I want my boss to give me an iPhone for no reason...
::sniff::
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 01:17 pm (UTC)And he's making 1/3 of what his salary was in Jersey.
So... there aren't a lot of perks to the job, which makes this that much more WTF?
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 01:27 pm (UTC)But bweeee! Free iPhone!
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 02:53 pm (UTC)Now that is cool. Would it keep him from taking the other job?
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 02:59 pm (UTC)He is feeling guilty about spending so much time lately not-working at work, though, so whether Boss knows it or not, this was a great way to tap into the very-latent Catholic guilt Z possesses. Now he's doing some ambitious thing at work. We'll see how it goes.
no subject
Date: 2007-09-20 10:23 pm (UTC)I want an I phone WAAAH.