Madness @ Work

One of the men needed a pencil for marking on something here at work. He went to ask the girl at the front desk if she had a pencil. Seeing as she was on the phone, he turned around to go look elsewhere. New Manager was standing there, however, and he said, "What?"

So my man explains the need for a pencil. Three minutes later (not kidding) he gathers that NM does not know where any pencils are.

::later::

Our intrepid worker is now at his desk again, and NM comes around to give him a tip: "If you do use a pencil to mark on that stuff, make sure it's HB."

That is, NM took time out of his "busy" schedule to tell one of the people that doesn't work under his management, what type of pencil to use to write with. And he used wonky non-standard terminology (you'll recognise HB pencils as #2) to do it.

::Keep this on the down-low::

I gave him a pencil and didn't even check what kind of lead it has.