Wherein the Dude uses the wrong name.

[JustADude]

Simple goof here:

Fact #1: I used to work for a company whose initials are PJ, who I have always referred to on here as Pizza Joint.
Fact #2: I now work for a different company in the same business whose initials are PH, who I shall refer to as Pie House.
Fact #3: The opening greeting for the two companies is perfectly identical right up through their first initial, i.e. "Thank you for choosing P-"
Fact #4: Pizza Joint was the last place I had to answer phones on the job regularly before Pie House.
Fact #5: Under stress, Dude reverts to auto-pilot.
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Conclusion: When on the phones his first night at Pie House, during the huge rush, Dude accidentally said "Pizza Joint" instead of "Pie House" during the opening schpeel. :doh:


I think I broke the customer's brain with it, but the supervisor that heard me just laughed and told me that if that's the worst mistake I made during my first day then I'd be the best they'd had in a while. :D

[Slayergrrl]

When I first started working for the city I worked for Traffic and Parking.. Things got a bit stressful one day and I answered the phone "Good afternoon, Traffic and Dancing!" I don't know where it came from but they never let me live it down. The person on the other line got a kick out of it too. lol

[Shangri-laschild]

I answer phones for a living and I still accidently sometimes answer my personal phone with my work "****** College" line

[Bella_Vixen]

I did that just last week. I've been working at my new store for just over 5 months now. Whenever I answer the phone, I hesitate before saying anything, so I can remind myself where I am.

Not only did I say the wrong company name, it was a district manager for my company on the phone. :headdesk: Luckily for me, he thought it was funny. My boss, when I told her, thought it was hilarious.

[ThePhoneGoddess]

Oi, you think that's bad, I work for a payment processor company that contracts with many major and minor cell phone companies. We do their over-the-phone transactions for them. I have to answer calls with the company name that comes up with the call. It is different every call. Sometimes it isn't real clear, and I have to guess. Other times I am just stressed or not paying attention and I flub it. Man people freak!

If the call is for Bugaboo cell phones and I accidentally answer saying Thank you for calling Ma Bell cell phones people have major coronaries. "I thought I was calling Ma Bell! What is this! What the hell!" I then have to calm them down somehow while they are demanding information about why I would answer with another well-known company's name, and then of course half of them will go "I knew it! You're all in it together! You're trying to rip off the American public!" or whatever. :rolleyes:

[bainsidhe]

I used to work for a pizza place myself, one that starts with a "D". For whatever reason, I answered the phone one day "Thanks for calling Godfathers", which is another midwestern pizza place. I've never worked for Godfathers, but they do have good pie. :) Anway, got a chuckle out of that one.

[IHateStupidCustomers]

When working for Sears, I would have to answer the department phone. We would answer, "Sears Dayton Mall Shoe Department."

One day, the phone rang, I picked it up and just said "Hello?" and paitently waited for a response. :doh: It was one of the other girl's mom, who thought it was pretty funny. You might have just had to be there, but it was funny.

Or, when I worked for a catalogue call center...answering phones all day. I actually started to answer my cell phone one time, "thank you for calling so-and-so...." Whoops.

[xetawindsong]

I worked for two summers at the White County Superior Clerk's Office, where I would answer the phone "White Superior Clerk's Office" A year or so later when I was a dispatcher for a Safe Ride service, I would still sometimes answer the phone with "White Superior Clerk's Office." There would always be a pause where the other person would try to figure out how in the h*** they could have called that number (completely different county than I was currently in) before I'd stutter, "Uh, I mean Safety Escort."

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

I am so glad that I am not the only person who's been known to answer their personal line with the company phone spiel. Misery loves company. :D

What's worse though is to answer the phone while handling something else and get a total brain hiccup. "Ummm, hello?"

[Eric the Grey]

I am so glad that I am not the only person who's been known to answer their personal line with the company phone spiel. Misery loves company. :D

Oh, gawd, I've done that more times than I can remember. I usually get the firs syllable out before I pause and say "Hello". :lol:


:cool: Eric the Grey

[mattm04]

It is even funnier when someone goes to make a page, forgets what they were going to say and instead of hanging up and trying again you get....

"Ch- uhhhh, J- uhhh, Bill in Gro--- Del i mena frozen please dial ............. um. 1.......3..........uh 6. That is B---Bill in uh deli, I mean Frzen pleas dia(l)..call 1....uh 3..6"

[Evil Queen]

I've had so many times where I would answer the phone at work with "Hello EconoLodge" (the place I worked at this time last year) and just this morning merely answered the phone with "Hello?". Thankfully it was an in-house call, but still. -_-'

[Slytovhand]

I went from one TAFE to another - which was basically one of its competition (same job - more pay). I was at the first place for 3 years...

A few times, I got eyebrows raised as I answered the occasional call with the former employers name....

As it is now, we take after-hours calls for a different company. Need to look at the hardphone to determine which road it's for. Too many times I've gone on a long conversation (giving false information) before realising which one it's for... ooops.

But - best one wasn't by me....

Co-worker was reading out a phonetic alphabet - "A for Alpha, D for Delta, 6 for Zulu...". Not lived down .. :D

[fish3k1]

Heh, I remember when I worked for a Pizza place, and the opening spiel went along the lines of "Thanks for choosing D******* Pizza, my name is <Name>, how can I help?"

On a couple of very stressful and tiring nights, I did actually manage to forget my name.... :headscratch: :ashamed:

[ladyklack]

We had the longest and most obnoxious greeting ever at my old job.

"Thank you for calling Ritz Camera, your digital and imaging headquarters. This is ladyklack, how can I help you?"

We used to get secret called all the time so there was no getting around it. I have never once, in six years, been able to say the entire greeting without stumbling over the 'digital and imaging' part.

edit:
lol, just remembered the time I accidently said 'hellquarters' instead of 'headquarters'.

[SpyOne]

Back when I answered phones at a chain pizza delivery store, every so oftehn the brain would fry and I would revert to programmed behavior.

What scares me is that, far more often than answering the work phone with a simple, "Hello" it was answering the home phone with, "Thank You for calling MajorChain Pizza, this is SpyOne may I take your order please?".

On one occasion, I caught myself mid-shpiel to produce: "Thank you for calling MajorChain Pizza, this is ... not MajorChain Pizza, this is my home, but you've reached SpyOne anyway." ;)

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

Oh gods, I used to do that too. The longer the spiel the more it embeds itself into your brain.

[AdminAssistant]

I spent a brief summer working at a preppy clothes store ('Space?'). While I didn't have to answer the phones much, our spiels tended to go like this:

"Thank you for calling ***, where all men's jeans are 20% off (or other sale at the time), this is AdminAssistant, I can help you"

We weren't allowed to ASK "How can I help you?", we had to STATE "I can help you". Weird.

[JLRodgers]

Whew... I thought I was the only one that when working at a place and answering the phones (somtimes almost a 100+ a day, and my job wasn't answering phones). I went home, parents called and I answered it identicle to at work. Frequently I'd just answer the phone with "thank you for calling" at home for no reason.

Once I got all messed up answering the phones for no apparent reason. Picked up and instead of the opening thing of "thank you for calling L.C. Pizza, may I take your order?" I ended up with something like "Thank you for calling... um... *where am I* C. do you want, eh, how can I help?" (the *where am I* was thought, I hope) . I forgot how to fill out the paper form too.... Fortunetely I was the management (co/assistant manager) so I delegated phones to someone else for the night.

[orpheuswaking]

Ha Ha, been there and done that a thousand times... But the worst is when I would talk to my girlfriend on break and then get back on the phones and accidentally sign off a phone call with a customer "I love you"... Got a bit red faced the few times I did that I can tell you...

Also just because it's funny I went the other way, I went from Pie Hole to Pizza Joint... But now I'm done working in anything that is to do with round bits of dough with stuff on them...:lol: