Work Restrictions

[azurelunatic]

We do surveys for all kinds of clients at work. There are two groups of surveys on a divisive issue, one group on either side. By client request, it is arranged so that no one who works on the one group of surveys may work on the other.

This division extends to monitors as well as the goons on the phones. As an interviewer, I'd been working on my preferred side of the issue. As a monitor, I am now working on the other side. Today's lead monitor was in a terrible state, as she'd had half her people pulled, and she and the other remaining monitors were all assigned on the one side of the issue, the side I used to be assigned to, and still am on at heart. So she pulled me from the job I was monitoring and set me up with an array of people on the other job. "Anyone can do this one," she said, indicating the one that I'd been doing and she was about to take over, "but you're the only $ISSUE_SIDE person I have here tonight."

I indicated the job I'd until that moment been working on. "Neither milk nor meat, eh?" I asked, grinning.

"Huh?"

I repeated myself, a little more distinctly. She'd heard my words, but not gotten the joke. Ah well.

Comments

[juuro.livejournal.com]

Can one really expect kashrut rules to be widely known? "No pork", I should think, is the only one that almost anyone will recall.

[azurelunatic]

Generally, I'd protest, "But I know it!" ... but then, my parents made sure that I was actually educated, by giving me the right kind of fiction and checking out the right kind of library books.

[juuro.livejournal.com]

I think, dear, that we have already determined (many times over, as a matter of fact) that you are not "anyone". You are someone, with no possibility of doubt.

[azurelunatic]

I did have to look up the term for mixed milk and meat.