Staff Rant #2 – Mr Kerr
In this, his week of fame and adultation, we thought we’d intensify the spotlight on Mr Kerr, Head of Drama and Productions. Here’s his staff rant (list of ten things that get his goat)…
- People who put the stress ON the preposition.
- People who say , ‘The reason is because’
- People (i.e. my children) who remove a single battery from a twin battery handset to use it somewhere else and don’t replace it, so that when I am in a tearing hurry to record a piece of television, the handset gives me nothing, instantly transforming me into bad-tempered shouty dad. Which I hate. (That doesn’t mean I hate my children . . . )
- Revolving chairs and people who think too much of them.
- Chewing gum, or more specifically, people who chew gum.
- Call centre staff who ask you if you mind if they call you by your first name. (Of course I mind. It’s just I can’t then say so without sounding priggish.)
- Telephones generally.
- Limp, damp handshakes.
- Casual lying.
- People who never ask you anything about yourself in conversation but who will hold forth at great length on anything about which you ask them.
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