Wherein the Dude uses the wrong name.

[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...