5 posts tagged “felpa”

I have really taken too much time off of Blogging and must get back into it. 

For those of you needing a Friday chuckle, this should make you laugh a little. 

You see I work for an Emergency Medical Supply Company.  I work in the Collections department, hunting people down that owe money, primarily Government entities.  My co-worker who we will call Felpa, (be sure to check this tag for other funny readings.) needed some assistance looking up some information from an old computer system called FACTS.  We no longer use this dinosaur system, and Felpa has a hard time even logging into this system, let alone accessing any information that may be useful to him.  So I proceed to help him look up past invoices for his client.  I tell him I'm not finding the information he's needing and I am only being presented with the "cost-measure" pages.  He immediately responds like a hard of hearing grandpa, "What!?!  The Cotsmuncher!"..... I respond, nooo the cost measure, taking special care to enunciate each word.  

Meanwhile, our company is having a hard time with our cleaning company. When Felpa arrives to work he has found that the cleaning lady has left all of her vaccuum cleaner attachments in his cubicle.  The following day the cleaning lady leaves her feather duster in our adminstrative assistants cubicle.  We all sumised that we should build a medical kit and call it, "The Cotsmuncher"..

We have had a week of crazy customers and weirdo calls.  We had one customer call and the first question out of his mouth was, "How big is my strap?".....    "Uhhhh, gee sir, I dunno, How Big Is Your Strap?"  (hee hee, chuckle, chuckle)....        

Felpa also called a hospital to collect on a past due invoice and was greeted by their automated system and the first prompt was,   "If you have questions about a big package, press 1."

We found a manikin head at work and decided to make it look like Felpa actually does work instead of taking 2 hour lunches. 

FELPA

Working with Felpa is always a treat.  It has been a crazy week already with 80mph winds in Ohio from Ike.  It knocked out power for my company and many people statewide.  Our city had over 300,000 without power.  To date about 197,000 still do not have power.  Our office was closed this past Monday and Tuesday. 

My co-worker and I always play practical jokes upon each other to make life FUN.  So today when I came into work he had wrapped my entire office in tissue paper and filled my overhead compartments with easter eggs. 

So when he wasn't looking, I grabbed his car keys and drove his car to our neighboring business and used Shoe polish markers to put his car up for sale for $1,000.  or best offer.  He has received about 10 phone calls. 

So then I leave for lunch never checking the back of my car.  I drive home and check the mail.  As I'm walking back up my driveway, my neighbor honks his horn and waves and I realize I have a sign on the back of my van that says, "Honk if you think I'm Sexy". 

So I return to work and place the same sign on the back of his car.  He leaves his desk and I send an email to our boss saying he will work extra hours all next week and he will treat our department to lunch today. 

In addition I rigged his desk drawer to dump when he pulls out his chair.  I placed a piece of paper in the headset connection so his phone will not work.  I placed a post it over the laser of his computer mouse and removed the ink from all of his pens. 

I love my job and Thank God everyday for Felpa!  He makes work an adventure.  I'm wearing armour on Monday

Probably my favorite prank at work is to fill the overhead compartments of people's cubicles with ping pong balls or plastic Easter eggs.  I laugh my buns off at my very fabulow co-worker Terry.  Although we play practical jokes on each other often.  When he first started working with me, I had left him a message from "Myra Maines" and left him the phone number for the Texas Mortuary.  Last year I tried to get him to call Mr. Lyons at the Zoo.  This year he took the day off.  (Smile) 

My very fabulous co-worker Terry at his Murder Mystery Birthday Party

While out on Maternity leave my very fabulous co-worker Terry received an inquiry at work.  In an effort to respond to the inquiry, he called the customer back only to discover that the person on the other end of the phone spoke spanish and he unfortunately did not.  I once had shown Terry that he could type his letter using Microsoft Word and then translate it into whatever language he wished.  He did this and emailed his response to the customer, however when the spanish/english dictionary translated Terry it changed his name to Felpa referring to "Terry Cloth".  LOL!!  I always knew when it comes to customer service, Terry is one big "Felpa" softy. 

                                                   Happy Customer Service Week Felpa!!