I sunk into my chair..................
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I was on the phone to one of our companies managing directors, finance director and general manager. I had my phone in my hand and they were all sat round on speakerphone. The situation leading to the phone was as follows.
They had submitted a database to update their e-commerce site and some things were not tallying up. We were trying to find the new options they had supposedly added to one of the fields in the database but these were not matching.
Their manager who had inputted the new data said he could see it right in front of him and I was wrong, I don’t like been wrong J so I said one moment while I bring up the database.
Pressing the mute button on my phone I turned to one of my guys and said F**king barstewards, they said its us that’s barstewarding wrong ... I was just about to spurt out some more foul language when I heard a comment coming from the speaker on my phone. I paused, I then felt sick when I realised I had hit the speakerphone not mute button.
I could have crawled up and fitted inside a nun’s crotch, I felt that small!
Still feeling small, I managed to prove I was right which was a small consolation.
After a subsequent call to my boss, all was sorted but I still feel like a male hedgehog that has had all its spines pulled out, then put in front of 2 gay male hedgehogs for a rodgering
Has anyone else done a similar NUMPTY thing?
They had submitted a database to update their e-commerce site and some things were not tallying up. We were trying to find the new options they had supposedly added to one of the fields in the database but these were not matching.
Their manager who had inputted the new data said he could see it right in front of him and I was wrong, I don’t like been wrong J so I said one moment while I bring up the database.
Pressing the mute button on my phone I turned to one of my guys and said F**king barstewards, they said its us that’s barstewarding wrong ... I was just about to spurt out some more foul language when I heard a comment coming from the speaker on my phone. I paused, I then felt sick when I realised I had hit the speakerphone not mute button.
I could have crawled up and fitted inside a nun’s crotch, I felt that small!
Still feeling small, I managed to prove I was right which was a small consolation.
After a subsequent call to my boss, all was sorted but I still feel like a male hedgehog that has had all its spines pulled out, then put in front of 2 gay male hedgehogs for a rodgering
Has anyone else done a similar NUMPTY thing?
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After a subsequent call to my boss, all was sorted but I still feel like a male hedgehog that has had all its spines pulled out, then put in front of 2 gay male hedgehogs for a rodgering
Good line that. I've made a similar mistake.. thought I'd pressed the button to mute it, called the bosses boss a
only to hear a "pardon?".... I feel for you, Chris! Anyone who says they've never made a mistake is a liar. We all have these little faux pas, hidden away in the past somewhere and we all squirm when they are brought back to mind. However, you will get a right laugh from your mates down the pub, when you tell that one!!
Far worse than this actually, and coincidentally the same moment I discovered that the 'stop' icon on your toolbar won't actually prevent an email from going through once you've pressed 'send' 
You can't blag this one since the damn thing's in black & white.
Reminds me of a ruse I find quite useful. When you're in discussions with another group via conference call, find some reason to press your 'mute' button such as 'we'd like to discuss this offline'. Then listen. Pound to a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, they'll start talking amongst themselves. And you can hear them. There is a charming belief that since you've pressed your mute button, you can't hear them. I do this all the time and most of the time it works. You can get some peachy info this way. Try it next time, but do make sure your mute button is activated, which I'm sure you will......
You can't blag this one since the damn thing's in black & white. Reminds me of a ruse I find quite useful. When you're in discussions with another group via conference call, find some reason to press your 'mute' button such as 'we'd like to discuss this offline'. Then listen. Pound to a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, they'll start talking amongst themselves. And you can hear them. There is a charming belief that since you've pressed your mute button, you can't hear them. I do this all the time and most of the time it works. You can get some peachy info this way. Try it next time, but do make sure your mute button is activated, which I'm sure you will......
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