Yeah our office is old school, you want an outside line you have to dial 9. So one of our collectors, well wait, you have to understand most of our collectors are college kids and we kind of, definitely, treat them like our kids.... So one of our collectors hit 9 for an outside line, then needed our operator so dialed 1 but it didn't go through so he hit 1 again.....
Ya get where I am going with this?
So here is this cop at our door, someone dialed 911. Here is our collector quiet as a mouse checking his phone log....oh, um, that would be me. Of course we are giving him trouble.
To make matters worse he plays hockey and got a tooth knocked out and missed a couple days. He came back to a lovely basket of teething supplies, fake teeth, those strange fake teeth that look like you haven't brushed ever!.
I know I sometimes gripe about the office, thought I would share a funny.
So what odd things happen in your office, home, where ever....?
Oh of course we each had our own story of how one of our kids managed to get a cop at our door too......
Victoria, this new system went live two weeks ago. The powers that be felt it would be less confusing to keep nine as the number to dial out. :-/
Momma, that sounds like my old next door neighbor who refused to get his dog fixed because then he wouldn't be a man. Dude, he is a dog! he will never be a man!
That gave me a good chuckle. Thanks for sharing. Sounds like you guys give the newbies lots of love. Can't think of any funnies off the top of my head.
Not as funny as dialing 9-1-1...but my desk used to be close to someone who's extension was 180 & she would get calls constantly when someone would forget to dial the 9 first and were trying to make a 1-800 call. Funny though she complained like crazy but never once asked that her extension be changed!
That is pretty hilarious!!! Here's my story:
I worked at a vet's clinic as the receptionist.
We had a man screaming and threatening me b/c we removed his dog's uterus... he had brought it in to get spayed. He wanted to get the dog spayed... but to leave in the uterus (basically he just wanted tubes tied). I had to explain to him the spaying removes the uterus not only to prevent pregnancy, but also pyometra, which we discussed with his wife.
He told me his wife who brought the dog in gave us extensive warning not to remove the uterus, so his dog's "behavior wouldn't change". So... I pulled out her consent form that she had signed, showed him the notes section where the client writes their additional wishes and concerns regarding the surgery, and she had written nothing.... never said anything about this to the Dr. or the techs.
Anyways, he was very threatening and I had to very calmly and proffessionaly speak to him and tell him if he did not calm down I would have to call the police. All the while, the stupid office manager is looking at me in the hallway, hiding so she didn't have to do her job and deal with this man. I was just a young 20 year old at the time, who was new at the job. AHHH... I was always getting screamed at there by CRAZY pet owners.
In the early days of my office career (before the crazies and before security had to be so tight)...
One of the guys in my row had a "Strip O Gram" delivered to him.
We had no idea what was happening. We thought it was a vendor. Until she turned on her music and started taking her clothes off!
She didn't get very far.
But what a hilarious story to be able to tell!
That guy is now a Director at our company. It's fun to be able to tell his nervous new hires a good story. :)
Well one time all but one of us hid in an office prior to our boss getting there. We all called in with various reasons for why we couldn't be at work. We heard her get the messages and then tell the one employee that it was just them that day. It sounds lame but it was so funny. We all came out and surprised her. She was a good sport about it all.
ooooohhhh dear!! how funny!!! thank God (knock on wood) none of my kids have dialed 911 by mistake!! (whew!!) I bet the poor kid is just horrified!!!
I went to a job fair yesterday - made a lot of great contacts!! however, as a recruiter was surprised by the way candidates dressed...
One guy? wife beater, shorts and flip flops..
Another guy? sweat pants and a t-shirt
A W. - undone/unkept hair, no make-up (which is fine), blue jeans and a shirt...
I felt bad for one guy...really did. The room was fluctuating between hot and cold and he was a large man and sweating profusely, so much so that when you shook his hand, it got wet. He was afraid to take his suit jacket off because his shirt was wet with sweat....and yes...he's a candidate we want to pursue so "stuff happens"
I was surprised though to see people in a professional environment dressed so sloppily.
The W.? Although she has EVERYTHING we are looking for? We cannot present her to our client - which is sad. I talked to several other recruiters at the fair and they said the same thing. Their PMs won't hire someone who doesn't want to impress on their first meeting. I've said it to many of my candidates...you only get ONE chance to make a good first impression.
Where I work, we have a CISCO phone sytem installed in 2008 and we still have to dial 9 for an outside line on our phones, but not on the fax machine.The other lady in the office, notoriously forgets things. She was using the fax and dialed 9 for the outside line (not necessary) & same thing..1 for the long distance, didn't think it went through so dial 1 again..thus 9-1-1 and yes, the police officer showed up at the door & we now have a note on the fax machine that a 9 is not needed :)
I was a fast food asst. mgr for a few yrs & have several stories I could tell there, from people calling 9-1-1 because they didn't have their nuggets or me having to call 9-1-1 because a drunk was threatening me in the drive thru :) Burger being thrown at me cuz it had pickles on it..I could go on and on..
That is so funny. I can't think of anything funny that happens in our office. We are to uptight. :( Although I was at home and I called the people ordering our roof, it seems their number is just 1 off of the hospital. I was going on and on about how our roof needed done RIGHT NOW! ( insert receptionist chuckle) " Honey unless your roof is causing you serious health issues I think calling the ER was an accident. If you would like I can get ******** number for you!" I felt 2" tall but she was awesome about it
That sort of thing used to happen in my office as well so they changed to 8 as the dial out number.
One of my favorites: My old boss was gone for a week on a business trip - he's that type of guy that thinks jokes to others are hilarious but to him - can't handle it so well......We put fishing line on his chair and tied it to everything (except his computer) on his desk. When he got in that first day he pulled out his chair to sit down and everything on his desk came crashing down.
When I was on maternity leave with my daughter I returned right after Mardi Gras.....When I got to my desk there were a bunch of little naked babies (I believe from the king cake).
HA. That's funny. (well, maybe not so much for the cop)
Are you sure the kid wasn't trying to surreptitiously put in a word for upgrading the antiquated system? :P
J., what the hell are you trying to say? I used to do that at my office DAILY. They even threatened me with fines. :).
I was once in a bookstore in a mall when a man started having a seizure. I told the cashier to call 911. He started flipping through a phone book, and I told him again, "Call 911!" He replied, "I'm looking for the number!"
Thank heavens someone had run out to flag down mall security.
(Yes, this was before cell phones.)
I don't even know how many times I've done that. The police usually don't believe that did, in fact, dial by accident. *Sigh*. It doesn't help that I always become tongue tied around authority figures.
This has nothing to do with anything, but about 20 years ago I worked on Wall Street. I worked in the accounting department where the analysts crunched numbers on their adding machines all day (people under the age of 30 might need to look that one up). One day, the guy next to me picked up his phone receiver and dialed the extension he needed on his adding machine. The phone in his ear still gave him a dial tone. So he pushed the CLEAR button on the adding machine and dialed the extension number again. Took two times before he realized he was dialing on his adding machine. Yeah, we worked long hours. Haven't thought about that in years. Thanks for the laugh.
Well, at our office, O. of the secretaries was TRYING to call 9-1-1 and kept dialing 9-1-1, hang up, 9-1-1, hang up, etc. Not working. Duh. Gotta call 9-9-1-1, so your collector must have done that as the first 9 would have been just the outside line, right?
We did fill a cubicle with packing peanuts O. and taped it off.
LOL I accidentally dialed 911 at work last Saturday. Being half comatose and not having had copious about of coffee, I hung up and dialed the correct number. A short while later, I am paged to come to the front office for my 'medical, fire, and/or police emergency'. D'OH! I admitted to having fat fingers and not enough caffeine in my bloodstream. The officer went and bought bagels (and coffee!!) and sat with me for a couple of hours while I worked. He liked the music on my iPod. God Bless Richmond City Police!
