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Old 11-11-2004, 05:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Why I nearly fired someone today

We are in California. It was 4:30PM PST. We had the following conversation -

Bob, what’s going on with your client in Belize?

Gee, boss, I can’t call them now. It’s probably four in the morning there.

No. I think Belize is in the same time zone as Mississippi, give or take an hour.

I don’t think so. Belize is pretty far South.



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Old 11-11-2004, 05:23 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Nearly fired? How'd they get the job in the first place?
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:26 PM   #3 (permalink)
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just place a time zone map on his desk in the morning and re-ask the question later in that day. hopefully, you'll get a better answer.
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
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LMAO. Sometimes, clavus, I wonder what it's like to be you
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:26 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Let's just say that there wan't a geography quiz during the interview.
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:33 PM   #6 (permalink)
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If he ever gets stuck again..
http://www.mistupid.com/time/zones.php

What a moron...

I wonder if he thinks that Southern Cali is in a different time zone-- it is south you know....
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:34 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Belize is pretty far south. Close to Mexico I believe. What is so funny?
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:35 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Oh sweet Jesus. Bob has a brother...
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:36 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Belize is pretty far south. Close to Mexico I believe. What is so funny?
Please tell me you're joking.
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:40 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Belize is pretty far south. Close to Mexico I believe. What is so funny?
it wouldn't be a 12 hour time difference-- 12 hour time difference would be more like southern hemisphere. (like australia)
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:42 PM   #11 (permalink)
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it wouldn't be a 12 hour time difference-- 12 hour time difference would be more like southern hemisphere.
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:45 PM   #12 (permalink)
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While I admit I have no idea where Belize is (I looked at Mal's link and now know its only an hour behind us) I would think I'd know it if they were one of my CLIENTS

We have licensees in Scotland, England, South Africa, Germany and Australia and I can tell you what time it is in THEIR locations at any given time.
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Old 11-11-2004, 05:55 PM   #13 (permalink)
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before this gets worse

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Old 11-11-2004, 06:05 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Thanks coppertop - I blame my ignorance on a very congested head --that's my story and I'm sticking with it...
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Old 11-11-2004, 06:06 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Thanks coppertop - I blame my ignorance on a very congested head --that's my story and I'm sticking with it...
Surely it was a typo, right? You got the Australia part right.

*edit - rightish

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Old 11-11-2004, 07:27 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Oh, maleficent, maleficent, maleficent... I fear you have been infected with the dreaded Bob's Brain Virus.
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Old 11-11-2004, 07:31 PM   #17 (permalink)
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This thread COULD have been fun. It's like that one question on the Newly Wed show where the couples are asked which side the sun rises. I remember atleast one replying that it rises from the north where she lives. And before we have any wiseguys try to post about vectors and it the sun may be north relative to her home, this woman was just wrong. She was an idiot. Some people just are..
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Old 11-11-2004, 09:04 PM   #18 (permalink)
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it wouldn't be a 12 hour time difference-- 12 hour time difference would be more like southern hemisphere. (like australia)
I'd just like to point out that we Australian southern hemispherians aren't that far from you in timezone, especially on the west - no south coast
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Old 11-12-2004, 07:23 AM   #19 (permalink)
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it wouldn't be a 12 hour time difference-- 12 hour time difference would be more like southern hemisphere. (like australia)
We do all know that the position of the country on the "vertical" (North/South) access has absolutely nothing to do with the time-zone...

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...don't we?



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Old 11-12-2004, 07:32 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Old 11-12-2004, 09:17 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Oh my God!!!!
Next thing, you will be saying that right now is auttum all over the world!!!!!! You totally skipped elementary school, don't ya?

Clavus,
I guess that by now, you must realize that there's nothing wrong about Bob...
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Old 11-12-2004, 09:52 AM   #22 (permalink)
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I wonder if he thinks that Southern Cali is in a different time zone-- it is south you know....
We Southern Californians are in a zone of our own.
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