Did I really just say that?

[FFR]

This is more of a bad timing thing...but I work in a hotel reservations department and a lady calls and says her husband booked a hotel room for the end of June and she needed to cancel it. So I pulled up her reservation and following standard procedure I asked for the reason for cancellation. We ask this because we want to know if you're cancelling becuase you hate our hotel, or found a better rate somewhere else or whatever...Anyways, so I ask and she goes..."His death...my husband passed away..."

And then foot inserted in mouth. I mean, I know I wasn't going to know what she was going to say but I felt terrible...All I could manage to say was I'm so sorry to hear that. And promptly cancelled her reservation.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

HINT: the deaf can't hear the beeping.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by FFR

This is more of a bad timing thing...but I work in a hotel reservations department and a lady calls and says her husband booked a hotel room for the end of June and she needed to cancel it. So I pulled up her reservation and following standard procedure I asked for the reason for cancellation. We ask this because we want to know if you're cancelling becuase you hate our hotel, or found a better rate somewhere else or whatever...Anyways, so I ask and she goes..."His death...my husband passed away..."

And then foot inserted in mouth. I mean, I know I wasn't going to know what she was going to say but I felt terrible...All I could manage to say was I'm so sorry to hear that. And promptly cancelled her reservation.

Did that job require you to be psychic? Because I don't see how you could have known that.

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by kermitology

Did that job require you to be psychic? Because I don't see how you could have known that.

Ya, I don't really see how that is a foot inserted into mouth situation. Now, had he said something after knowing, something like "I can't change the account without permission from your husband", then that would fit.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Oh, mother, that's awful. Yeah, that's not something from which you can recover. If I may ask, how did she react when you told her that it was a different publication? Did she run out of the room sobbing? I probably would have run out of the room sobbing. I was never that great in interviews...

She didn't cry, but her face did turn pretty red. She was clearly embarassed. I didn't want to be a dick, so I didn't bring up the matter any further, but the interview ended pretty quickly after that.

[4X4]

A little story about my brother that doesn't really fit in here because he was about 5 years old at the time so he's off the hook.
I was shooting a tennis ball against the garage door one day long ago when my little bro came outside and wanted me to teach him. I could tell he wasn't really using all his strength so I told him to hit it harder. After a fair amount of prodding, I finally concluded that he was deliberately not hitting it harder. When I asked him why, he told me that he didn't want to hurt the ball.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by 4X4

When I asked him why, he told me that he didn't want to hurt the ball.

Do you feel the same way about softballs?

[CaptainCrunch]

One of my earlier jobs was doing telemarketing for the Sun. It was a terrible environment by the way and the pay was awful.

Anyways I got on this phone call with a person who wasn't interested so being the polite SOB that I am I concluded with a "Thank you for your time ma'am"

At which point the client told me to F@#$ myself and that he was a man

I mumbled a quick apology and hung up.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by troutman

Do you feel the same way about softballs?

Official request for a smilie that indicates hanging one's head in shame.

[Flashpoint]

I was playing pond hockey with 3 friends when we were in grade 10. We came inside and put on some porn.

There are these two girls going at it on screen, and one is giving the other one a ... a-hem "torso massage".

Suddenly, during the close up, my best friend says "My sister's are like those".




(he was talking about another guy's shin pads, as he saw him taking them off).

[Flames_Gimp]

i took the bus today and went getting off at my stop I said "have a good day" the driver replied with "you're welcome"

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Official request for a smilie that indicates hanging one's head in shame.

How can you let troutman bug you re batting? He has yet to swing the darn thing, just takes base on balls.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Oh, you know, the usual...




Not sure if this fits in this thread, but today, I conducted an interview with this young chap, straight out of university, and he was really nervous, visibly nervous. He was squirming in his chair, rarely made eye contact, he just stared at the floor or out the window behind me.

Anyways, I asked him some basic questions and he was very blunt and honest with his answers, I think moreso than he intended. He told me about how he had trouble meeting deadlines in school, had trouble getting up in the morning, how he didn't like working with people, and how he wasn't comfortable using computers or phones.

I imagine he was just really nervous and therefore some of that stuff just slipped out, so I am sure that he walked out of that interview thinking, "Did I just say all that?"

We interviewed a guy like that a while back. It was a panel interview, and one of the questions was a behavioral question, I can't remember specifically what it was, but he talked about how he isn't shy to tell somebody something. Then he pointed at me and said (and I paraphrase) "For example if you had something that was horrible looking that was growing on your chin I would tell you in a tactful way that you should have it removed". Well I was the only one on the panel that had a goatee, and I prefer to keep my goatee a bit long. My colleague joked that he was trying to tell me something and the candidate's face turned beat read.

I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it, at least not consciously, but he was certainly kicking himself for using that as an example. He didn't get the job, but only because he didn't have the qualifications that we were hoping for, not because he may have insulted me.

[RougeUnderoos]

Originally Posted by FFR

This is more of a bad timing thing...but I work in a hotel reservations department and a lady calls and says her husband booked a hotel room for the end of June and she needed to cancel it. So I pulled up her reservation and following standard procedure I asked for the reason for cancellation. We ask this because we want to know if you're cancelling becuase you hate our hotel, or found a better rate somewhere else or whatever...Anyways, so I ask and she goes..."His death...my husband passed away..."

And then foot inserted in mouth. I mean, I know I wasn't going to know what she was going to say but I felt terrible...All I could manage to say was I'm so sorry to hear that. And promptly cancelled her reservation.

Ouch.

My dad used to be a "zone captain" for a charity. He went around delivering packages to volunteers for the kidney foundation. He showed up to deliver a package to one guy we'll call Bill. Turns out that Bill is dead. His funeral was that afternoon and they were having some sort of mournful get-together at his house when my dad gets there.

Now luckily he didn't go up an ring the doorbell in the middle of this and ask to see Bill, but he did see people going into the house and he cheerily asked them if "is this Bill's house, and is there was some sort of party going on?".

The people had to explain to him that Bill is dead and they had just come from his funeral.

[Aeneas]

Originally Posted by fotze

I guess that's better than his preferred face on balls.

Zing!

[Traditional_Ale]

My standard lysdexic house-party welcome is:

"Check it out, a beer full of fridge!"

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

"Check it out, a beer full of fridge!"

I do that way too much. Watching the news a while ago I said "Woah! Look at that 9 pile car-up" and today at work "When did we get this new poffee cot?".