Trying to sort it in Scotland

[Elantan]

Hi I had replied to this but I think my phone is acting up ... Tbh means to be honest


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[Elantan]

Nah the Scottish slang tends to be works like aye, cannae, dinnae etc


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[MRG]

Don't know about the slang, I got the best butt chewing in my life in Edinburgh. I was only there for Monday through Thursday. Oh what a mess, the sales guy sold the customer something the system didn't do, I was told what had been done to make it work, an inefficient cluge. To top it off they sized a machine that would never have run 10% the customer's volumes.

To say the customer was upset was a huge understatement. He started at 8:00AM chewing on me. By lunch he'd gotten tired of yelling and went out. An hour later he started the same justifiable tyraid again. I reminded him I was only there to Thursday, would he like me to look at the system for opportunities to improve it. He calmed down.

The worst part was his accent, as he was chewing me a new one all I could think of was how he sounded like Scotty on the original Star trek(I was tired and just wished the chewing would stop). I was seriously afraid I'd start laughing as he vented. I knew he probably wouldn't have seen the humor.

In the end he was a really good guy. He wanted honest answers to fix his problems and he got them. Not sure who paid for all the additional hardware.

Welcome to the forum.


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[Alan]

When I was working in Dumfries (SW Scotland) I had lots of funny interactions, many to do with accents, but my favorite was with a colleague who was from Glasgow. His name was Julian and one day he was telling me a story concerning himself and his brother in a pub in Glasgow. He said that his brother said to him, "Peter, we need to leave". I asked why his brother called him Peter and he replied that being called Julian could be a death sentence in a Glaswegian pub

 

[MichaelB]

I have a very close friend in Scotland. Actually, we haven't yet met, and wouldn't recognize each other if we came face to face, but we share the same first and last name. For some reason he thinks my gmail id is his, because he uses it to subscribe to various Scottish web sites. Scottish Ancestry, a teacher's improvement program, a football club. It was fun until he started subscribing to Scottish porn sites...

 

[travelover]

I have a very close friend in Scotland. Actually, we haven't yet met, and wouldn't recognize each other if we came face to face, but we share the same first and last name. For some reason he thinks my gmail id is his, because he uses it to subscribe to various Scottish web sites. Scottish Ancestry, a teacher's improvement program, a football club. It was fun until he started subscribing to Scottish porn sites...

Funny....I Facebook friended a German with my exact first and last name, then he started posting some really racist stuff and my other "Friends" thought it was me!

 

[haha]

Funny....I Facebook friended a German with my exact first and last name, then he started posting some really racist stuff and my other "Friends" thought it was me!

I also found out how tricky friending those with my exact name can be. My doubles were all in Germany or Switzerland, and although they were not racist they certainly were accustomed to a more adventurous sex life than I. People were starting to wonder about what I was getting into. Must be some amazing club scene in the larger northern cities of these two countries.

Ha

 

[Elantan]

When I was working in Dumfries (SW Scotland) I had lots of funny interactions, many to do with accents, but my favorite was with a colleague who was from Glasgow. His name was Julian and one day he was telling me a story concerning himself and his brother in a pub in Glasgow. He said that his brother said to him, "Peter, we need to leave". I asked why his brother called him Peter and he replied that being called Julian could be a death sentence in a Glaswegian pub

yep that certainly could be a death sentence and the name Randy over here ... when i tell people i know an American called Randy they think i am having a laugh till i finally convince them i do and they laugh and laugh and laugh