Well that didn't go to plan

RoboRat

Just had one of those situations where something really went arse by face.

Had a client call and didn't want to talk to them so jokingly told the receptionist that I was out for lunch with a velociraptor.... and she told him that (she is foreign so it was obviously lost in translation)

Anybody else care to share? Make me feel a little better as I have a lot of back peddling to do :-(

Buzz Killington the third

I brought a T-Rex out for lunch once. cost me a fortune!

RoboRat

I brought a T-Rex out for lunch once. cost me a fortune!

Shanahans?!

Zen 2nd

Just say you meant your wife.

everlast75

RoboRat wrote: »

Just had one of those situations where something really went arse by face.

Had a client call and didn't want to talk to them so jokingly told the receptionist that I was out for lunch with a velociraptor.... and she told him that (she is foreign so it was obviously lost in translation)

Anybody else care to share? Make me feel a little better as I have a lot of back peddling to do :-(

Tell them that's the pet name you have for your S/O...

ScumLord

RoboRat wrote: »

(she is foreign so it was obviously lost in translation)

In the hotel industry that's when you tell them she's Spanish and hit her on the forehead with a spoon.

Arsemageddon

Years ago when The Office was first on BBC I was in the canteen at work talking to a lad about the scene where David Brent told the Queen/black man's cock joke which went badly wrong for him.

Two hatchet faced auld gee bags that we worked with happened to arrive in and only over heard the tail end of the conversation. I then had to spend ten minutes explaining myself while my face got so red I looked like a talking tomato.

Life imitating art I suppose

RoboRat

Years ago when The Office was first on BBC I was in the canteen at work talking to a lad about the scene where David Brent told the Queen/black man's cock joke which went badly wrong for him.

Two hatchet faced auld gee bags that we worked with happened to arrive in and only over heard the tail end of the conversation. I then had to spend ten minutes explaining myself while my face got so red I looked like a talking tomato.

Life imitating art I suppose

Brilliant!

A mate of mine got a bedroom golf email that was doing the rounds and he sent it to a couple of lads in his department but actually sent it to the entire company (300+ people). Cue frantic recall message that didn't work and he got hauled before the MD and lambasted.

discus

Hahah yeah I do!

I was in Norway with work for 3 months. Huge amout of guys there, probably a few thousand. As a private, I take pride in growing my hair as long as possible, something that only officers get away with. Anyway, we had an administration nightmare, and I had to drop off keys to a vehicle in a town 300 miles away, within 24 hours. I had ****ed up, and this was gonna hold up communications for a few hundred men... So, threw on a shirt and chinos (no other clothes with me) and walked across to the Motor Transport Hanger. I needed to get a vehicle to make the drive!! I never once said what rank I was, but the smart casual civvies and long hair must made them think I was an officer. They wouldn't give me a vehicle that night, but told me a car would be available at 6am tomorrow outside my accomodation.

6am comes, I go downstairs in uniform (remember, I'm a private) and there is a Royal Marine Commando corporal waiting beside a car. They had sent a bloody driver for me!! I stroll across, and get a 'good morning sir' off him, and I laugh it off and get in... 50 miles down the road he realises I'm not the officer that his bosses had assumed I was... He wasn't happy and I got it in the ear. He promptly ****ed me off 300 miles away and left me to get back to Harsdadt under my own steam, the wanker :P At least I didn't get in the shyt!