Office ooops'!

[Kiki]

omg....I just answered the phone here at the country club, really fast, but I wasn't thinking and I hung it up right away too.

Oh well....hopefully it wasn't the owner of the club!
ah feck...it's not my job to answer the phones anyway.

 

[Bonochick]

My mom works for a hotel, and she was commenting on how this guy's last name was Love. When the phone rang, my mom answered it, and instead of asking, "How may I help you?", she asked, "How may I love you?"

My worst phone goof still is when I accidentally said "I love you" at the end of a message I left for my boss.

 

[Kiki]

omg those are too funny!

 

[meegannie]

My worst phone goof still is when I accidentally said "I love you" at the end of a message I left for my boss.

I am SO scared of doing that at work.

 

[Bonochick]

Another good one that involves the phone...

The phone rang, and I brought the receiver up so fast that I whacked myself in the face with it. It really hurt, I actually yelled when it happened. Of course, it was my boss calling.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Another good one that involves the phone...

The phone rang, and I brought the receiver up so fast that I whacked myself in the face with it. It really hurt, I actually yelled when it happened. Of course, it was my boss calling.

That is awesome...

 

[Kiki]

Another good one that involves the phone...

The phone rang, and I brought the receiver up so fast that I whacked myself in the face with it. It really hurt, I actually yelled when it happened. Of course, it was my boss calling.

I'm SO glad I know someone else has done that!!!! I've done that twice at this job, the last time was actually yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kafrun]

My mom works for a hotel, and she was commenting on how this guy's last name was Love. When the phone rang, my mom answered it, and instead of asking, "How may I help you?", she asked, "How may I love you?"

My worst phone goof still is when I accidentally said "I love you" at the end of a message I left for my boss.

Seriously..


I haven't done anything like that.. yet I'm so scatter-brained, no doubt it will happen eventually.

 

[BonosSaint]

I answered the phone one time "May I have you?"

And I learned never, never to return a customer phone call during the office Christmas party.

 

[ILuvLarryMullen]

the other day at work I answered the phone at work and said "fine jewelry, this is Sears. how may i help you?" instead of saying my name (Sears is the name of the store). It was the HR manager calling and she laughed her ass off.

 

[Dismantled]

I seem to have a bad habit of ending work emails with "I love you"...I so used to sending my husband emails throughout the day it's just natural for me to sign them that way

 

[Cin]

These are so funny, I nearly choked on my chocolate

 

[starsgoblue]

When I was at Starbucks I subbed in one day for a person at a drive-thru store...I was so used to asking any customers that ordered pastries at my store if they wanted a plate or a bag that I actually asked the person in the drive-thru, "Are you going to want that on a plate for here or to go?" Long silence. And then, "A bag would be just fine, thank you." So emabarrassing.

 

[Kiki]

I seem to have a bad habit of ending work emails with "I love you"...I so used to sending my husband emails throughout the day it's just natural for me to sign them that way

OMG!!!!! what kind of reply's have you gotten???

When I was at Starbucks I subbed in one day for a person at a drive-thru store...I was so used to asking any customers that ordered pastries at my store if they wanted a plate or a bag that I actually asked the person in the drive-thru, "Are you going to want that on a plate for here or to go?" Long silence. And then, "A bag would be just fine, thank you." So emabarrassing.

 

[Dismantled]

OMG!!!!! what kind of reply's have you gotten???

it's so embarressing, people usually just reply "i love you too sweetie"..I want to crawl under a rock

 

[AttnKleinkind]

Oh man it's so great to hear that I'm not the only one who says/does stupid things at work!

 

[Thora]

I've done my fair share of stupid things, but I can't think of any specifics at the moment. I used to be a receptionist, and I know I made some pretty bad goofs.

I would even answer my home phone the way I'd answer it at work. One day I did that several times in a row. I really confused some of my friends!

 

[Bonochick]

I got reminded of this one today...

We had gotten a new phone system in at work, and I wasn't used to it yet. I thought one of my co-workers was calling me from her extension, so I answered all dorky, saying, "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees???" Well, it was actually a guy calling from an outside line...my co-worker had just transferred him to me. He just sat there in silence for a moment and finally asked, "Is this Katherine?" Um, yes...

 

[flybabe]

it's so embarressing, people usually just reply "i love you too sweetie"..I want to crawl under a rock

OMG,that is too funny...

 

[dazzlingamy]

once a call rang while i was in the middle of drinking a cup of coffee, and because i had the headphone things on it dropped right in, and i choked on my coffee and ended up gurgling it back up, right in the ear of the person calling - it would have sounded revolting! hahaha

they hung up

another time i worked in a call centre, and my friend next to me and i were talking about sex as you do and she was in the middle of saying 'im sooooooo not getting enough sex...hello Westpac how many i help you?' HAHAHAHA! it was hilarious!

another time a woman was tranferring a call to me and thought she had the person on hold and said 'gawd she's (the customer) being a real pain in the ass and the customer said 'i heard that!'
we ended up hanging up on her! hahaha

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

^

That reminds me of my days working in a call center...

I remember helping this one caller who needed information on where to send a payment to the company using Western Union.

The guy tells me to hold on a second while he gets a pen to write down the information. I say fine, and wait for him in silence - we didn't have any kind of mute button.

I continue to wait and wait and wait...

10 MINUTES go by and still nothing...

Finally, I turn to the guy next to me and jokingly say: "I think this guy went to the store to buy a pen"

At this point I hear "Hello?" Apparently the guy had found his pen and had just been sitting there waiting for me... without saying anything... What a tool.

 

[Kiki]

^

That reminds me of my days working in a call center...

I remember helping this one caller who needed information on where to send a payment to the company using Western Union.

The guy tells me to hold on a second while he gets a pen to write down the information. I say fine, and wait for him in silence - we didn't have any kind of mute button.

I continue to wait and wait and wait...

10 MINUTES go by and still nothing...

Finally, I turn to the guy next to me and jokingly say: "I think this guy went to the store to buy a pen"
At this point I hear "Hello?" Apparently the guy had found his pen and had just been sitting there waiting for me... without saying anything... What a tool.

omg.....seriously....what a putz.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

we have a coach who works here with a very long italian name... piccanini... eveyone just calls him "pitch" for short, which works out 'cause he coaches baseball and all.

one time i told a lady that "i can't help you you need to speak to coach bitch"

good times, good times.

 

[Carek1230]

^ Good one!

And on the flip side of all these telephone faux paus, I have Caller ID at work with the extensions of a number of apps engineers I work with so I have fun answering calls when I know whe they are sometimes. I freak out some people in our shipping or production/quality areas when they call me and knowing who they are from the ID I answer the call by name--it freaks them out like I'm psychic or something.