MORON CO-WORKERS: Fun with acronyms

You'll find that many of these blog entries will deal with my co-workers. They're easy fodder when it comes to calling out stupidity.

First some background: I work in sales, but it's inside sales. Sure it's mind-numbing work, but it pays well and it will do the trick until I can motivate myself to find a better gig. Some of my colleagues are middle-aged burnouts that will never do anything more fulfilling than this. My cube neighbor fits that description. We'll call her "Ellen."

You know the people that are really dumb, but try to make themselves sound smart? She's one of those people. I just heard heard her on the phone, trying to make herself sound important to whomever was on the other end.

"Oh yes, I know exactly who you need to talk to about that"

(silence)

"Yes"

(silence)

"Right, his name is XXXXXXXXXX, he's the CIO. He handles all of the finance and purchasing."

Fortunately she hung up before she could direct a help-desk question to Accounts Payable.