Friday, June 19, 2009

You have my number...lol

Funny thing happened at work, embarrassing but funny. I am working on a project that involves implementation of a 3rd party software and since there are three groups involved, one of my tasks is that of project coordination. I regularly setup conference calls for status meetings. The contract negotiations which lasted 4 months had taken a toll on all parties involved and everyone was on the edge after a previous very very unpleasant almost deal breaker kind of a call. Finally couple of weeks back everything got signed and come Monday morning I send off a conference call invite to everyone so we could determine the next steps.
At meeting time, I dialed in and was waiting for people to join. Five minutes pass and only one person joins. We sit wondering whats going on, when my manager gets on the call and he is laughing his head off. He asks me if I did this on purpose? I am clueless as to what "this" was. While he is still laughing, being the cool guy he is. I start getting emails from the 3rd party consultants that it seems the dial-in number may have an error and if I was sure this is the number I intended them to use. To my embarrassment it turns out the dial-in number I send off was for something called "Exciting Talks". I was mortified, but to cover it up I send out an email saying, just thought we all needed some relaxation and now that we have all had our fun lets get down to business. It did break the ice though.
Curiously enough one of the 3rd party consultants never made it for the conference call. Hmm, perhaps someone got too "excited" to talk ;)

3 comments:

APOO said...

LOL! Reminds of a time back in school when a prof clicked on a link in his PPT and it opened up to a porn site and then multiple sites kept opening up.

It was an 8 am class and suddenly we were all awake.

I even asked him what was for homework!!

the free spirit said...

ROFL!!
hahahha...u shud blog about that...it wil be a nice comeback post ;)

APOO said...

U think I would not have blogged about it? I'll never miss such a chance!

http://heartcurry.blogspot.com/2005/07/this-happens-also-in-amrika.html