# Boss came over at 4:00. I knew why. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983 "2017-05-19T04:11:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/41 "2017-05-21T20:03:28Z")
No offense to the OP But if you called me on the phone and talked like you posted here, would wouldn’t be able to sell me sex for $0.25 Honestly, it resembled a bad day at google translate. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/42 "2017-05-21T21:05:08Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > My sales were less than 1/4 where they should be. Before she went into my prospects for Friday I offered my boss in sacrifice. Some of those kids are more fucked up than me. Others haven’t dragged their sorry butts thru the last few decades of their lives. I just extended my existence eastward. Plant corner where, roughly? > > I’m just happy wife’s warm, but daughter and I are more likely to give her pneumonia than the formular thing. Everybody has better drugs than me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/43 "2017-05-21T23:51:11Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Everybody has better drugs than me. ☹ I hope today is the day off cause he got his hands on the good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/44 "2017-05-22T14:59:00Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > Honestly, it resembled a bad day at google translate. Hope OPs hangover wasn’t too brutal. Also, I am stealing the quote above. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/45 "2017-05-22T15:49:01Z")
Sorry to hear you got laid off. I hope it’s a VERY temporary state. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/46 "2017-05-22T16:52:03Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > … I’m a telemarketer. … The exact point at which my sympathy dried up. Get away from this line of work ASAP. I bet you could use your sales skills somewhere else, make better money, and not annoy people on the phone. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983/47 "2017-05-22T20:48:41Z")
Well, obviously the reason for the slow sales is that he only calls people who LIKE talking to telemarketers. Come now, didn’t you understand “just extended my existence eastward. Plant corner where, roughly?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boss-came-over-at-4-00-i-knew-why/786983.md?page=2)