Do you ever leave a message on an answering machine or voicemail & get totally distracted, thus leaving an idiotic rambling message? And do you ever do this at work?
I just left the worst rambling, unprofessional voicemail ever. I was trying to recruit a Director of Nursing for a study we are doing which consists of a 20 minute phone interview now & one in about 2 weeks. I have left 6 other messages that went just fine this afternoon. This particular one? Total brain fart.
My message went something like this:
Hi this is Kim N with the University of Wisconsin. I'm calling because (and here is where the brain fart starts kicking in) my boss (totally unprofessional language) and I are doing a small study on care planning and the RAPs (there was a more eloquent way to say this). We are trying to recruit homes from across the U.S. (wtf? Why did I say this? I never did in the other messages!) and you were recommended to us by the AHHSA association (ok, it's just AAHSA, not "the AAHSA assoc.") as a facility that does excellent care planning (again, could've been more eloquent).
The rest went fairly smooth. I just completely spaced for a minute. No way this person is calling me back. And I might be too embarassed to call her back.
*bangs head on desk*
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5 comments:
OLO!
Well, don't worry about it too much. I think it happens all the time to other people too, like me. You know?
Seana <--always speaks and types well.
Ack! Poor Kim! I did it once when I was leaving a message at a friend's house and I crushed on her older brother. I restarted the entire message about halfway through it. *sigh*
I do stuff like this too. It will be fine. I usually follow-up with a "let's laugh at myself and the last message I left" type talk...usually works!
I always leave messages that are too long and rambling. Why can't I just say "This is Puffy, please call me back?"
*bangs head on desk*
People do that all the time, Kim, but as a first contact you would probably be held to a higher standard.
When someone I know sounds like a total idiot I give them a pass. When someone I don't know sounds like an idiot I label them "idiot" and that's that.
What is most funny is when the talker realizes that the message is coming out all wrong so they start talking faster to just get it over with. It is always a bonus if they mutter "shit" at the end of the message. This has never actually happened to me, but I have heard a "shi" right before the disconnect and so I have conjectured that the person said "shit". It seems reasonable.
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