The 사무실

Transcripts from a “frustrating-when-it’s-happening”, but “funny-in-retrospect” foreigner-infused Korean workplace.

This introduces another 사무실 team member…Herbert.

Herbert : Rolanda, do you have a nickname?

Rolanda : Umm…not really.  Or none that I feel comfortable telling you!

Herbert : Really?  I think all Westerners have nickname.

Rolanda : Yea, a lot of them do.  Do you have a nickname?

Herbert : Fucker-face.

Rolanda : WHAT???

Herbert : My friends call me fucker-face because they don’t know what I’m thinking.

Rolanda : Oh…like poker-face.  Got it.  You know, sometimes Americans add -dogg to the end of someone’s name to make a nickname.

Herbert : Ha ha ha!  Herbert-dogg!  Rolanda-dogg!  Gaston-pigg!

Rolanda : Hah…Yea kinda like that.