Posts Tagged ‘office anecdotes’

Well, you know what its like; you are very busy and the telecommunications salesperson seems to have exactly what you want.

You ask him about notice of cancellation and are told that you can cancel anytime after the first year, So, satisfied with the service on offer, you sign on the dotted line.

Then five years and one month later, when you give notice of cancellation, you find out that you can give notice, but you can only cancel at each anniversary of your contract.

Unbelievable, maybe, but true definitely. We have just experienced this when changing our telephone services for our office furniture showroom in Colchester.

And the service provider is TML Communications Ltd, and they are meant to be one of the better service providers, apparently, or so they tell us.

It does make you wonder why business life could not be simpler. When you decide to change a service provider, surely a months notice should be enough.

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This is just a precautionary tale to any of you who have taken images from the internet for use on your own website or promotional material and nothing to do with our business of providing office furniture.

You may think that no copyright exists ( the pictures may even be on a free picture site , but you must make absolutely of the status of the pictures. If you don’t, then there is a good chance that you will be slapped with a £1,000 bill by Getty Images, who seem to be very active in this respect.

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We have already posted a blog on office furniture pranks, at last somebody seems to be taking us seriously! Comedy Central, who are broadcasting The Office, have recently conducted a survey on fun in the workplace and found these rather surprising results:

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• office laughter levels have dropped by 50%

• 1 in 2 of us are too scared to share jokes for fear of recrimination from the boss

• 1 in 5 say they never crack a smile during a working day

• 14% have stopped talking to colleagues for fear of being thought of as lazy

• Practical jokes have dropped by 66%

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Once again some more entertaining offerings from Jon Clayson of Hunters Estate Agents in Burgess Hill.

So, some pictures just to prove that you are never too old, and that everybody should try to live long enough to become an embarrassment to their children :-

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Supposedly all of the stories below are true, and if so then prepare to be amazed and educated at the same time. Having said that, they were sent to us by Jon Clayson of Hunters Estate Agents, so jump to your own conclusions.

So, did you know :-

Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, Don’t throw the baby out with the Bath water..

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We received this list of  one liners from our reliable source of office humour, Jon Clayson of Hunters Estate Agents in West Sussex.  Although they may not be Tommy Cooper originals, they are in his style and we list them here as a tribute to a great comedian :-

I met this bloke with a didgeridoo and he was playing Dancing Queen on it. I thought, ‘That’s Aboriginal.’
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This lorry full of tortoises collided with a van full of terrapins. It was a turtle disaster.
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I told my girlfriend I had a job in a bowling alley. She said ‘Tenpin?’ I said, ‘No, permanent.’
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I went in to a pet shop. I said, ‘Can I buy a goldfish?’ The guy said, ‘Do you want an aquarium?’ I said, ‘I don’t care what star sign it is.’
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Another set  of gems from Jon Clayson of Hunters Estate Agents in West Sussex. Maybe the Estate Agency business is even quieter than the office furniture business.

Anyway first of all a great mini film ( 4mb) so make sure you have fast connection

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( please note that it is clean and we didn’t supply any of the office desks or chairs)

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These amazing photographs are of a street artist which were  emailed to us a few weeks ago by Jon Clayson, who we have been supplying office furniture for his estate agent offices in South East England.

The artist is an English man called Julian Beever and he has worked all over the world

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This, and subsequent pages are dedicated to a good friend and client of ours,  Jon Clayson, and we have been supplying him with office furniture for many years

Jon is the owner of Hunters Estate Agents in Burgess Hill, and regularly sends us funny stories, jokes, clips etc, which have been sent to him by his many customers and friends. We have provided a selection below, and if you are ever looking to sell or buy property in Sussex or Surrey, then you should contact this man :-

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