It's going to be a long week

[mousme]

More random work stuff.

I talked to my boss, this time about something actually job-related (as opposed to "Hire me or I leave."). What I was trying to communicate was this:

"[Group Name] and [Other Group Name]'s accounts are still overdrawn. I've asked CAM to sign off, as well as Boss!Man, and I'll be sending faxes to both groups asking them to cover their overdrafts. Would you like me to phone down to Credit!Guy and make sure he'll be authorizing this today?"

What came out was:

"Umm, yeah. So should I, umm, :::handwave::: Credit!Guy about the... you know :::handwave:::? 'Cause the people are still... umm... the things... the découverts... are worse than Friday. I mean, for [Group Name] and [Other Group Name]. I've already got the :::handwave::: from CAM and Boss!Man, so I'll be sending the :::handwave:::, so it can be covered, okay?"

(For my non-French-enabled friends, "découverts" means "overdrafts")

:::facepalm:::

On the plus side, she actually understood what I was driving at.

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[ai731.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that after only a week of going to college partly in French (2 classes out of 6, but most of my teachers are Francophones speaking very good English to us), that I'm using a lot more French in my everyday speach. I suspect it's only going to get worse.