…unless you are positive it is the person you think it is.
Time: 1:00am NY time
Setting: My futon mattress
Frame of mind: Half out of consciousness and absentminded
I am chatting with a Forumosan when I receive a Skype invitation by a women who’s name is STRIKINGLY similar to my friend’s in Taipei- we’ll call the woman “Liv”. So, while still typing away with the Forumosan and thus not paying much attention to my Skype in the background, I absent-mindedly tell ‘Liv’ I will start a conversation with her in a second, thinking its my friend in Taipei just wanting to chat.
I send the call through and then suddenly in a horrified flash I realize ‘Liv’ is NOT my friend. No. She is the woman who responded to my Tealit ad about teaching english yesterday and is wanting to have that Skype interview that I suggested. And thus appears on screen two women and my Mac’s green camera light before I have a chance to even adjust my nightgown.
So in two half seconds of a petrified breath I throw my hair down, paste a huge smile of “OMG HOW NICE TO TALK TO YOU!” and attempt to stretch my legs out from my indian-style sitting arrangement and pray to GOD I did not just flash my new potential employers.
Maybe good luck for you. When I applied for the job that brought me to the rock 10 years ago, the regional manager from Japan called me at 3 AM!
After first cussing him out for being such a rude prick, I asked him for 5 minutes to put on a pot of coffee, and then proceeded with the interview.
I got the job!!
I had to read that several times. First I was wondering why he was so reluctant to make you some coffee, then I wondered how you were planning to drink it once he’d made it. I know Japan’s technologically advanced and all, but coffee drunk through the Intarwebs would be really something else!
I had to read that several times. First I was wondering why he was so reluctant to make you some coffee, then I wondered how you were planning to drink it once he’d made it. I know Japan’s technologically advanced and all, but coffee drunk through the Intarwebs would be really something else![/quote]
Sorry for my poor engrish Sandy, I am neither an Engrish techur or a hack.
Of course, I meant “Please postpone the interview for 5 minutes, let me put on some coffee, and I will speak to you when my caffeine level is enough to put on a semi human face at this god-awful hour of the morning!!”
[quote=“Lili”]…attempt to stretch my legs out from my indian-style sitting arrangement and pray to GOD I did not just flash my new potential employers.
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That was YOU? It went up on Porntube at around 1:07 am your time. It had gone viral by 1:20 am. Those cheeky Taiwanese office ladies! :no-no:
Forumosans chat with you lady??? As in real people on this site??? Hmmmmmm
You chat with them like that??
[quote]I have a chance to even adjust my nightgown.
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and in an unadjusted night gown??
Tell me it was not Irishstu you were chatting with. [/quote]
Hahaha, my Skype video wasn’t turned on until the interviewer called me! Hence “when my camera light turned on” and the freaking out lol
You know, absent-mindedly typing away at 1 in the morning… Like “Oh. Blah blah. Uh huh. Blah blah. Sure.” Skype pops upAbsentmindedly click itback to chat “Blah blah, Taiwan, blah blah… Wait a second. …OMG!”
Irishstu? No, not hime. Who is that?
@sandman: LOL I guess part two of the show will air tonight while I read to the kids over Skype. I have to go get a kiddy book today.
No. She is the woman who responded to my Tealit ad about teaching english yesterday and is wanting to have that Skype interview that I suggested. And thus appears on screen two women and my Mac’s green camera light before I have a chance to even adjust my nightgown.
and the freaking out lol