Speaker phone might help, but I know what you mean from back in the day. Having to be 'on' when they need you to is naturally stressful.
Btw-- it's "queue," sounds like "cue." "Que" is a Latin and Romance-language word.
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Yup. Queue is a line. Cue is a trigger. The cashier can cue the next person in the queue to approach the register.
Even more confusingly, my job frequently shorthands βcueβ as βQβ because it is quicker to write in a script. For instance, the script margins will have the stage managerβs notes, which include lighting cues, sound cues, etcβ¦ So the stage manager will write something like βQ136 when light switch flippedβ if lighting cue 136 needs to fire when the actor flips the light switch. So they can call it at the appropriate time.
Oh neat; you work in stage production? I bet you have some stories...
The cashier can cue the next person in the queue to approach the register.
Or if you're familiar with Star Trek, pool and the art of judo:
βQ picked up his cue while waiting in the queue for his kyu promotion test.β
Hey buddy how's your chili doing
Uh... are you thinking of FauxPseudo, perhaps?
Nope, I tagged you: https://piefed.social/comment/9519027
Oh, well shizzle my whizzle!
At the time, my dear @spacenoodle@lemmy.world-- I'll LET YOU KNOW when I need your help, again, mate.
Got me..?
Hey, you said you hoped you'd run into me.
Alright fine, lol...
Okay, okay, I guess I got one for you--
It's about aluminum shavings, i.e. how combustible are they, anyway!?
Please do not eat aluminum shavings.
No problem; I'll just go for thermite!
I get the same thing just calling in to my favorite podcast to leave a voicemail. Which is especially odd since they are somewhat successful, not not enough that something like leaving a VM should make me nervous at all.
Just picture the other people naked
Oh no Sam Seder is hawt π¨
I've called in before and got on. And then my brain stopped working. Hah
So it's not just you.
Lol what are word what does "caller" mean
Public performance in general can be stressful; people get stage fright all the time.
ΒΏQue?
Por que?
Yeah messed me up that queue, que, and cue sound the same in English. Que was close enough to cue anyway
In English, que isn't a word. It's a misspelling of queue