She said “I’ve a problem, I’ve done something stupid.”
Yas: “So why are you here, leave my office take your problem elsewhere”

I was joking, I’m approached at work with similar opening lines all the time. Its my department which ends up cleaning up the mess from other departments. Luckily in this instance the problem turned out to be far easier.

The lady from the quality control department had received some ladies belts. She had tried them on. Starting with the smallest obviously. But was surprised when size large didn’t fit her. So she had sent a sample of the belts off to the technical department. Normally my department would be informed of this but on this occasion she had not done.

Anyway she was telling me the story of how she tried putting on size large and it didn’t fit! what crossed my mind was well maybe you need an extra large. Obviously once the words ‘extra’ and ‘large’ crossed my mind I knew in this instance I need to keep my mouth shut no matter what happens. It was one of those volatile situations whereby speaking the wrong word no matter how remotely related or unrelated it is will cause a reaction which would have left her feeling bad. Women and sensitive go hand in hand like red leather and gloves.

She finished off by letting me know the technical department had found no faults and that the size was correct. Then she said well either the size is small on these belts or I’m just fat and I’m now going to go and cry.

Please not in my office I thought. Leave the belts here and I will get them to the right waist, I mean place!