I have a host for next week's show. She works nights and I work days so it has been hard to connect!
She wants to see some of the recipes we have been discussing (won't go there-long story) so I email her the recipes and tell her I'll call her on Tuesday (her next day off so we can talk in the evening). She is planning on going to the store to buy the ingredients on Tueday - so I should really try to call her on Monday so we can go over the recipes.
So I tell her I will try to call her from work during my lunch break on Monday. I really don't like to make PC calls from work - as I am in close quarters with others - but I will make the exception.
I call at 11:30 when officemates are gone and her phone just rings. I am waiting for her answering machine, but none picks up - so I figure she has call waiting and is not picking up. No problem.
I call back at 12:30. Phone rings twice and hangs up?? Weird. So I call right back. Well, my host picks up the phone and starts yelling into it that THIS BETTER BE GOOD...THIS IS AN UNKNOWN NUMBER....YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR CALLING...I DON'T ANSWER UNKNOWN CALLERS...on & on and I keep saying hello...hello...(host name)...
Well, apparently my work phone shows up as UNKNOWN CALLER. By the time I get her almost calmed down and tell her who I am (several times) - she still has no idea! So now I have to say "Your Pampered Chef Consultant" rather loudly since she is still upset. (Which now alerts my officemates I am making PC calls (ugh!).)
So now she is mad that our company shows up as unknown! I tell her I have no control over that and I was making a special exception and calling her from work!
This is one of the worst aspects of having to make calls. I was actually a little upset over being yelled at like that - and having to justify myself!
OK...vent done. Thanks for listening.
She wants to see some of the recipes we have been discussing (won't go there-long story) so I email her the recipes and tell her I'll call her on Tuesday (her next day off so we can talk in the evening). She is planning on going to the store to buy the ingredients on Tueday - so I should really try to call her on Monday so we can go over the recipes.
So I tell her I will try to call her from work during my lunch break on Monday. I really don't like to make PC calls from work - as I am in close quarters with others - but I will make the exception.
I call at 11:30 when officemates are gone and her phone just rings. I am waiting for her answering machine, but none picks up - so I figure she has call waiting and is not picking up. No problem.
I call back at 12:30. Phone rings twice and hangs up?? Weird. So I call right back. Well, my host picks up the phone and starts yelling into it that THIS BETTER BE GOOD...THIS IS AN UNKNOWN NUMBER....YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR CALLING...I DON'T ANSWER UNKNOWN CALLERS...on & on and I keep saying hello...hello...(host name)...
Well, apparently my work phone shows up as UNKNOWN CALLER. By the time I get her almost calmed down and tell her who I am (several times) - she still has no idea! So now I have to say "Your Pampered Chef Consultant" rather loudly since she is still upset. (Which now alerts my officemates I am making PC calls (ugh!).)
So now she is mad that our company shows up as unknown! I tell her I have no control over that and I was making a special exception and calling her from work!
This is one of the worst aspects of having to make calls. I was actually a little upset over being yelled at like that - and having to justify myself!
OK...vent done. Thanks for listening.