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30 Crazy And Unexpected Things People In This Online Community Heard When Someone Forgot To End The Call
It seems that there are less and less people who enjoy phone calls and prefer the discussion to happen in text form, but in some cases it’s easier to just speak, especially in professional settings. What’s not so professional is to make commentary on what was just discussed before making sure that you hung up the phone and the call had ended.
Surprisingly, it happens quite often as redditors shared their own stories of hearing someone say rude things thinking they hung up, but they actually didn’t end the call. Some of the stories were quite wholesome, but the common denominator was that they were all unexpected as the other person didn’t know someone was listening.
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#1
My MIL had a new boss who hated her. She was about three years from retirement, and she felt like he was trying to push her out early so she’d lose part of her pension etc.
She asked me to check her answering machine while she was gone after her mother died and let her know if anything important came in, and to water her plants.
The third day or so I’d been there, there was a message from this boss giving his condolences. Then you could hear the click where he thought he’d hung up but must have placed the receiver just wrong and was still on the line. He ruthlessly made fun of her with his wife for the next five minutes before saying “Oh, s**t!” and hanging up.
She was at a really low point in her life, and I didn’t have the heart to tell her or leave the message on the machine. It would have absolutely crushed her. But I did record it, and then I deleted it from her machine.
Then I called that a*****e and told him what I had, why I wasn’t telling her RIGHT NOW (but absolutely would if needed in the future), and told him I’d better hear nothing but how wonderful work was going for her and how well she was treated until she retired. I told him I didn’t even understand what a piece of s**t you had to be to talk about someone like that behind their back, and especially at such a time in their life.
And that’s exactly what happened. She had a wonderful last few years and figured that her mother dying had opened him up to treat her kindly and with respect.
That was twenty years ago and I never told her and never will. I wouldn’t want to ever take those last few years there away from her.
Se Mai 3 years ago
That would be the BelAZ 75710 -an ultra class haul truck.
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Good for you! I don't know if that would work these days...my HR department went from being employee advocates to being always 100% on the employers side, and we soon lost all faith in them, they would back the boss no matter what the circumstances.
Missi Boness 3 years ago
You are an awesome human being and you just brightened my day by being so. That was such a wonderful act of kindness. Your MIL is blessed to have you.
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#2
called a tech support number for a work related issue during covid. guy was clearly at home and could hear a dog whining in the background. He got my error code straightened out we both said bye but before i could hang up my phone i heard whos a good boy! are you a good boy? i said quietly "I am" then just heard laughing and he said i am sooo sorry! then he hung up :( i wanted to hear his puppy.....
Upstaged75 3 years ago
WFH is one of the best things that's ever happened to me!
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BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
This is so cute but I hope the teach support guy is still employed. My sister works at a call center and if there are ANY non-office noises, she can get fired. Pre-covid she told me one person got fired for chewing gum and another because their dog barked. Calls are randomly listened to. Honestly, it shouldn't matter very much but "gotta be super professional" 🙄 I hope places loosen up a bit
#3
My boyfriend, early on in our relationship, we would talk on the phone before going to sleep. He's terrible about hanging up first, so I got to hear him tell his cats about how cute I am
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Nice that he thinks you're cute enough to tell his cats, and nice that he tells his cats =^..^=
JASH80 3 years ago
what is this in the upper left hand corner - looks like a dog's head badly photoshopped onto a cat's body?
TKA 3 years ago
Looks like a schnauzer and the post didn’t originally have a picture
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#4
I was leaving a message for a client about data conversion services. After I left the message I thought I had hung up (voip software on my work computer). I started singing the Mana Mana Doo Doo Dododo ( the Jim Henson song). Then noticed I hadn’t hung up. So I hang up. The next morning I come in to check the conversion voicemails and there is a very clear and professional message left from the client, he leaves contact number and says to have a nice day, there’s a short pause and then he sings the same song back in the message licking up where I hung up when I realized I was still on voicemail. It was hilarious and made my day.
Peter Trudell Jr 3 years ago
yep, those girls in the sauna... manah manah!
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Ruth Kilpatrick 3 years ago
I looooove this. I have a 45 record of it from the 60s. It originally appeared in the Italian film Sweden: Heaven and Hell (Svezia, inferno e paradiso).
#5
I have a friend that is awesome to hang out with but she can be super flakey. Her brother was dating another friend of ours, but they lived in Thailand together. The mutual friend was home for a bit, and was heading back the next morning, so we met up with a few other friends.
The flakey friend said they would be there, but flaked. When I called to see if we could get a hold of her, it went to voicemail and I thought I hung up. Instead, she got a voicemail of an exasperated me saying “She always f*****g does this. I don’t think she shows up more than a third of the times we make plans.”
She confided in me a year later that she’d got it, but thanked me because she said she hadn’t realized how bad she’d been about keeping plans. The voicemail had her reflecting, and she started making a point of keeping plans after that, said it helped improve her depression.
I was so embarrassed, but I’m glad there was a happy ending.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
It's good she got the message, but it would have been nicer to just tell her to her face. I had friends like this, and They thought nothing of making really elaborate plans and canceling last minute after everyone else had done all the work. I finally told them that I wasn't going to have time wasted by them, because I didn't have much free time to begin with. I haven't made plans with them since, but I heard they've been better about showing up.
Memere 3 years ago
Direct communication does really work, but there are always those few people who just don't get it. Glad it worked for you!
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Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Not quite the same, but closely related: I had a friend who was ALWAYS late, and we had made a movie date, and I told her that if she wasn’t on time, I was just going to go watch it without her. Amazingly, she was on time.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I made breakfast plans with the wife of this couple. She had stood me up on the last few breakfast dates, so I asked her to pick the day, pick the time, pick the restaurant. She picked Sunday, my only full day off, at 8, so I couldn't sleep late, at a restaurant completely on the other side of town, so I had to get up at 6.30 to make sure I was on time. I walked into the restaurant at 5 minutes until 8. and the hostess asked "are you here to meet X? She called... she's not coming". That was when I told them both that it was the final straw.
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Nikki Bastian 3 years ago
Sometimes people don't know things until they're told. I'm sure that voicemail was an abrupt jerk of understanding for her, but just in the same fashion that your friend's flakiness was never outright malicious, neither were your words. But I bet she started feeling better when she started keeping plans. This is cool all around - you were kind and had the patience to keep inviting her, and she broke an ugly habit that made being around her difficult at times. Everyone was being a good friend here.
#6
Not really crazy, but my grandparents would always call me from 2 different phones in their house so we could all talk. When they'd get my voicemail and leave a message, instead of hanging up they'd talk to each other. Usually silly things like "what's for dinner" and stuff like that, but it always made me smile. I wish there had been a way to keep them back then.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I’m 66 years old and I still miss my grandparents so much! I think about them at least once a week.
RafCo 3 years ago
Me too. My mother worked long hours, so my grandmother raised us. She was a force of nature. Lost her twenty years ago. My grandfather passed a few months later. He couldn't live without her. I miss them so much. It's weird, but i still Google Earth their old house just to see how the neighborhood has changed, and think about sitting at the bar watching telenovelas with them.
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Lazy Panda 3 years ago
I would love to have a recording of my grandparents chatting like that. So sweet.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
My mom, rest her soul, was hearing impaired, she used a special phone and hearing aid, but she also got most of her information from reading lips. There was a time delay on her special phone, just a couple seconds, but it was enough that you usually heard the last couple seconds of what she said as she hung up. She never got the knack of whispering either . . . I would get close enough so she could read my lips and I'd mouth something like "that's the guy I told you about" and she'd say "THAT ONE?? HE'S THE ONE HAVING THE AFFAIR? HE'S NOT THAT GOOD LOOKING".
#7
I was working in a Callcenter for some time, so I'd be calling around 30-40 people per day, which is exhausting work.
There was this one particular call, I still remember very clearly. It wasn't crazy, but the situation was rather unexpected.
So, I'd be calling a woman about the end of her thirties, we'd have the usual chat and she was readily replying to my questions, sometimes giggling and doing conversation outside the topic at hand. She was in a room with her daughter.
When we ended the chat, I thanked her for her time and said my goodbye.
A few seconds after that, she apparently thought I had already hung up and said to her daughter "my goodness! He's got the most pleasant voice."
I was smiling beams for the rest of the day and did enjoy the work much more for the rest of the week.
Stardust 3 years ago
I find that I love listening to voices. The tone, the pitch, the accent. It all makes me feel so nice when I listen to people’s voices.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I can’t handle when people have vocal fry…it’s like an assault on my ears.
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I think I will start saying this to people who call me .. I would like to make someone smile beams!😁😁😁
ToGo 3 years ago
I worked in a call centre some years ago. It was the most hard going, underpaid, undervalued job I've ever been in. Shift patterns were awful, constantly being harassed to do over time by astoundingly lazy "team leaders". If you had to use the bathroom it was timed - their point was that you should go on your break. Haven't even got to the customers yet. All I'll say is, before you start screaming at the person taking the call please remember that they're the only one in that company that's actually trying to help. They have no authority and the people who do have authority just see you as another nuisance. Be firm yet calm and polite and you'll get what you need much quicker.
Fieke Engelen 3 years ago
Just thinking, maybe I will not be so quick to hang up. Seems like I'm missing out on interesting bits and pieces
Satya Bain 3 years ago
Also work in call centers (~30 years) and on my current contract one caller stated I was sweet before he hung up. I smiled for days on that one!
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
Overhearing a compliment is the best! I remember hearing the best way to encourage a child in something was to let them accidentally “overhear” you praise them for doing that. (being kind or generous etc). Works for all ages!!
#8
Back when I still worked in a 911 center, I got a call that was pretty obviously a swatting attempt. Describing a hellish situation feet from them but silent in the background, normal tone of voice, phone not showing remotely near the area they're describing. (Note: I started two calls, one where they said it was in case it was true and one where their phone was actually showing with all the details so we were CYA in case of real issues, but actually investigating what was likely happening)...
Anyway. After a bit they say they have to hang up because it's not safe to stay on the phone. Then I hear pocket rustling sounds and the same person talking in the background about how "that b***h Anna is gonna get what she deserves when them 'Poh-leece' show up and point them guns at her" and a bunch of laughing, clearly not meant to be heard by me.
So I add that all in too. Anyway, PD found them pretty quick, because the area they were actually calling from was very low density population. Hearing them panic when they saw PD outside of their house was a special kind of fun.
Heather Wells 3 years ago
I had someone attempt to swat me over a FB argument. I am pro choice, and she is anti. Anyway she sent the police and CPS to my house on two separate occasions. The police incident ended up with a confused singular town cop, (we were served by the county), showing up at my place in an incident that involved him point his weapon at my 16 year old daughter, (who was 5'2 and weighed 90lbs) as she put herself between him and the family dog, (3/4 rottie, 1/4 bloodhound), and crying for him not to shoot our dog. Yes, everyone but the dog got yelled at for that one. And yes, I realize the privilege there. Lost my mind for a second seeing that. When CPS showed up my dog got pepper sprayed and they banged on the door demanding to see "the baby." Apparently someone reported a baby in dangerous conditions there. My only child, the aforementioned 16 year old answered the door, confused as hell and then noticed they had done something to Tiny. Dog is fine, but the caseworker ran out of there.
Melissa Rodriguez 3 years ago
This is infuriating. I hope they caught that turd who made a false report. Thank goodness your daughter and pup were (mostly) unharmed.
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Trophy Husband 3 years ago
I used to work in IT for a fire department. Sometimes I would go to the 911 center to do some work. The call takers played a game to reduce stress, they would swear at the firefighters, but hit mute at just the right time. So over the radio you hear "engine 9, respond to a delta call, structure fire, 6 stories, at 123 main street." But if you're there, you hear "engine 9 you m**********r, respond to a f*****g delta call you son of a b***h, structure fire up your a*s, 6 stories in, at 123 main street, where your mother is a hooker." That was all said in 3 second and the finger moving up and down on the transmit button is really impressive to see!
zububonsai 3 years ago (edited)
This is gold, I absolutely believe this. --- this is literally the "subtitle" scrolling through my mind when delivering only in those hellish 6 weeks until Christmas plus sh*t weather when you get to one of those "2 of 1000" customers from hell (I call them "premium customers"/s)... you have like 10seconds for each parcel and you just think t h i s. Very stress releasing. PS: no I'm not choleric nor do I have anger issues. 1998 of 2000 customers say I'm super nice and very laid back .... But even I need to yell at my car front window like once a month.
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#9
I was the third party in this.
A coworker failed to hang up properly after a conversation with the boss and promptly went on a very creative expletive laden rant about the boss and what he should do with himself.
As this went on I received a text from the boss suggesting I should inform the coworker that she’d not hung up.
I got coworker’s attention and told them they hadn’t hung up.
Still in expletive mode I was asked what made me think that.
My response was ‘I got a text from boss’.
First time I ever saw color literally drain from someone’s face.
Henry Russell 3 years ago (edited)
i wouldnt of imformed him and just see where the conversation was going
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
It really pays to double and triple check at work. I had a coworker fired for replying to ALL on a similar email... expletive filled and mostly about the CEO.
Memere 3 years ago (edited)
That reminds me of my last job where the co-president/co-owner of the company hit "Reply All" on a security email about parking tags for employee cars. He basically gave all 200+ employees in the building the year, make, model, & license plate numbers on all 4 vehicles he owned! At least it wasn't one that was cussing anyone out, haha
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Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
Eeep. This might be a good time for coworker to polish up that resume, unless this was one of the nicest bosses in history. Not necessarily a firing offense (since she didn't intend for him to hear that), but that's going to be one awkward office.
#10
"Stupid f**k fell for it." This from a student's parent while I was excusing their kid from an assignment they missed because their grandmother just died. She hadn't. Still, the kid wouldn't pass the class under any circumstances because he was a complete knob. Once I talked to his parents I knew why. So he still failed the class even without the assignment. So I know one of us was the stupid f**k, just not sure it's the same person they think it is.
glowworm2 3 years ago
Claiming someone’s death as an excuse when the person in question is still alive is terrible.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
There should be a test for parents... any parent who would call a teacher that, and lie for their kid isn't really parent material, IMHO.
Jessica Bertram 3 years ago
because A-holes raise lil a-holes. stands to reason.
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Vinita Talaulikar 3 years ago
Parents are this dumb how could they expect their child to be bright?
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
I absolutely agree that the parent here was totally in the wrong. What's sticking with me is that a teacher called a student a "complete k**b".
J Ko 3 years ago
“Complete k**b” sounds very British. Is it British or am I missing some slang in my vocabulary?
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Not a crazy story but I had just finished talking to a client over the phone, we say our goodbyes, then I hear her ask "are you wearing pants today?" I wasn't sure how to answer that but I figure she was jokingly asking because everyone just started working from home due to covid. I just replied "Yes". She then burst out laughing trying to explaining that she thought she had already hung up and she was actually asking her husband that question. We laughed about it for about 3 mins before we actually hung up.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I love that pants are totally optional now! My favorite thing about WFH, (besides everything).. was being able to roll out of bed at 5.59 and start work at 6... no shower, clothing, makeup, hair or teeth brushing... I could do that as the morning progressed.
#12
Found out I was single this way back when I was in the Army.
I got the chance to call my girlfriend and took it. It was a nice call; she told me what she'd been up to and all that. We made plans for some leave I would be getting soon, we said goodbye and she hung up
I still had a few minutes so I just sat there, holding the phone so the next guy wouldn't hassle me for it, when I hear from the line:
Male Voice: So when's he coming back?
Ex-Girlfriend: Not for a couple of weeks, we have plenty of time.
MV: You're going to break up with him before that, right?
Ex: Of course!
I hung up and felt like s**t, ghosted her when I went on leave, later found out she's been seeing the other guy for a while. Didn't see her for years and years, until one day, I was taking my kid to get pizza at a place in a strip mall and there she was, standing next to an SUV, staring at me like she'd seen a ghost. I waved, went inside and that was it.
WoodenLion 3 years ago (edited)
i got one letter a day for 3 months once. then nothing. a telegram 6 months later when i was getting back to usa. " meet me at this hotel". went, did our stuff - came back 45 mins. later unannonced. there she was with him. told me later it was the worst decision she made. oh well, i took 1/4 lb. of smoke to the beach for 10 days.
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Kylie Crawford 3 years ago
Why is it every time someone is out serving our country that they are always cheated on? What a shitty way to pay them back for keeping you safe!
Kylie Crawford 3 years ago
Why is it every time someone is serving our country they get cheated on? What a shitty way to pay them back for keeping you safe!
Milady Blue 3 years ago
Letters like that to GIs are called "Dear John" letters. What would you call an inadvertently overheard conversation, I wonder?
#13
I had a job where I was in a position to write-off a substantial phone bill, which the customer said was because her mother was dying overseas and she had dementia and needed to hear things in her voice to believe anything, including doctor’s instructions. She was heartbroken and sobbing about how if she had the kind of money to pay this phone bill, she would have just gone back to her country because the flight would have cost less (she was right about that).
I wrote-off the entirety of the phone bill, she cried like a jilted lover in a rom-com and said people like me are angels from god etc.
After I wished her a good evening and she thought the call was ended, she says to someone in a perfectly normal voice ‘Well, that worked!’
tw 72 3 years ago
Right? Some people will do anything for money. Very sad.
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I think I would have called her back at least, and let her know you were on to her.
Barbara Kayton 3 years ago
And then the people who are really in a position like this are now viewed with suspicion, all because of lies like this.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
People like this make it so much harder for folks who have real problems.
feelthefebreze 3 years ago
dang she insulted all the people who genuinely have to go through suffering like that
kim morris 3 years ago
I wish I had thought of this. When texting first was a thing, and son1 got his first phone, 1600$ for the first month's phone bill. 45 cents per text. you kids don't know. ATT was ruthless. No way would they lower it. They would not let us pay slowly. next month's was 1200$, because the bill was lagging behind the texting, he did stop texting, but it took a couple weeks to show in the billing. Son2's bill was 800. He tried, but was still just a kid. Friend texts him, he feels obligated to reply. F**k the phone companies. it does not cost 45 cents in actuals to send a text.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
not that bad but my stepdaughter got on her dad's phone plan. [probably around 2006 or so.] she was on her mothers, and it was free to each other. we didn't think about it untill we got a $800 bill from her and her mother talking.
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Nightshade1972 3 years ago
I hope OP immediately canceled the arrangements they'd just made to write off Caller's bill.
#14
A former colleague of mine said something in the line of ”god I hate that m**********r” after he hung up on our largest client, problem is he didnt hang up.
Not the worst I heard, but we lost our biggest client, our reputation and in the end all our business. Some 25 people lost their jobs.
Pro tip: don’t tie up 80% of your sales to one customer, also don’t tell that customer that you hate that m**********r.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
And hire people with better judgement. No one should say that kind of thing out loud, no matter what they think of the client.
Memere 3 years ago
At the very least you keep your thoughts to yourself until you're in the car on the way home! I used to let off a lot of steam on my commute, and it does help get rid of the day's stress.
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Nurichwersonst 3 years ago
Pro-tip: First hang up and then say "a*****e". Not the other way around. ;))
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
That is a good tip. My previous employer went from 20-30 workers to <5 because their biggest customer went with a different vendor after 10+ years.
feelthefebreze 3 years ago
to be fair to the guy, some clients can really be a piece of, ah, dung.
Moxie Mallahan 3 years ago
True, but for gods sakes at least make extra sure that you actually hung up the phone before making the comment.
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Zack Podany 3 years ago
Don't tie up 80% of your sales to one m**********r customer. Sorry to say, I've worked at places that did that *coughphonesformikelindelcough*
#15
I left a client a voicemail and thought I hung up but in fact I proceeded to talk baby talk to my roommates cat for several minutes while it was recording.
#16
I have a "not muted" story
Webex, 500 people on the call, right when everyone was getting used to working remotely. Whoever set it up didn't mute the audience by default.
The chaos was amazing. Dozens of people simultaneously unmuted and going about their lives. Dogs barking, kids crying, kitchen utensils clanging, the call leaders PLEADING for people to mute themselves.
My favorite part was when they had things mostly quiet, about 5 people were still unmuted, including one guy who thought he was muted who yelled "JESUS F*****G CHRIST PEOPLE, MUTE YOUR F*****G PHONES" before realizing he was not on mute.
They threw in the towel and ended the 1.5 hour meeting after 15 minutes
Stardust 3 years ago
I also had a not muted mic experience. I was the one unmuted unfortunately. The teacher asked a question and I told the answer but she said it was wrong even though I was correct. Since I was having a terrible day I cursed a lot without realizing my mic was not muted. Thankfully nobody heard it properly.
Babyoda42 3 years ago (edited)
Lol Mine was on zoom when I was scolding my cat for trying to eat my bacon, then the dog for trying to eat the xat
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I avoided a lot of grief by telling my boss that my mic was not working. I had to call in if I had something to say, which I almost never did.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
I stay muted. If I need to speak, I unmute, speak, and immediately go back on mute.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 3 years ago
Most video conference programs have a "mute all" option for the host.
Vasana Phong 3 years ago
We used the same tech for our 3 week meetings, all of us mostly primary care with the head of operations, they did it midday, like an hour, took them about 45 minutes to get everyone in to the meeting and then the rest of the meeting asking people to mute their phone
#17
"He thinks I'm still at work, baby."
DaVo 3 years ago
There are two types of people. 1. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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#18
I was FaceTiming my parents shortly after I started dating my now wife. I’d had quite a dry spell and hadn’t dated anyone for a couple years. So I mentioned we were dating on the call and they were happy for me. We ended it and I just put my phone down to grab something without ending the call. Apparently my mom did too because after a few seconds I heard her say “Well I’m glad he’s having sex now!” Awkward but also I’m glad my mom is looking out for me!
Se Mai 3 years ago
Could be much worse than that. He could have heard his parents during… during their fun time.
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Hugo Santos 3 years ago
I remember overhearing my late granny telling my mother she'd rather know I was in my room with my girlfriend than with a bunch of male friends, because at least she'd know what I was doing...
BasedWang12 3 years ago
Lol my parents woulda just been like "Wooo, so ya f****n again?" and like "so didja finally get ur d**k wet?"
Cory Tollman 3 years ago
I'm curious as to why Mom was glad he was having sex now. I understand dads, or if they really, really want grandchildren, the parents but this sounds more like Mom was getting annoyed with his behavior because he wasn't having sex. She was probably a few weeks away from explaining to him "this nice thing called masturbation and how it can help you to make better decisions and not be such a whiney a*s b***h. Sweetie.". :-D
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
oh yeah, cell phones are notorious for this because it auto hangs up when the other person hangs up. and sometimes, both parties expected the other person to hang up.
#19
I called a service provider who was supposed to order certificates of good standing from a state and they were late in sending them over. They told me there was a delay at the state’s office and gave me a new estimate. They forgot to hang up, and I heard them telling their coworker that they’d completely forgot to send in the time sensitive request in the first place. Never used them again 😂
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
I did that once with a Nigerian Prince. He's a little late in sending my portion of his inheritance after I gave him my bank account info and the processing fee he needed.
Wonderful 3 years ago
I got a email a couple hours ago from “Amazon” congratulating me and telling me I won a new flatscreen tv, all I need to do is log into my Amazon account from the email and it will be sent out. I’m so excited for my new tv 🥴
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I work at a children's hospital, and anything serious like a Code Blue is called out hospital-wide over the loudspeakers by dialing a specific phone extension. There's been a few times where someone hit the hold button instead of end call, and the whole hospital gets to listen to the hold music until someone catches it.
The worst/funniest though was a couple weeks ago. Every single employee, parent, and child in my world renowned children's hospital heard this poor guy scream "F**K" when he realized he was still on.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I would have said it three more times while I was trying to hang up... panic does that.
Snowfoxrox 3 years ago
lol, this story is more about having appropriate ring tones while working in such a place. Had an RT giving compressions on the gurney loading into an elevator headed to the PICU when his phone began ringing. His ringtone? "Crazy B*tch" He couldn't stop and his phone was in a pocket. He, the nurse, the Dr's and the parents had the most awkward elevator ride in history. We ALL got reminders via email to make sure our phones are off or that they have child appropriate ring tones lol...
Olivier Caissy 3 years ago
In a hospital it means an emergency, somebody is gonna die if they are not treated right now.
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I'm a debt collector. A debtor owed a $15,000 balance but the original creditor was willing to take $5,000 to settle the account. I was processing the debtor's payment and I placed them on mute but they must have thought that I placed them on hold. The person starts talking to a friend in the same room and basically the debtor was trying to buy a house and needed to resolve this account to start trying to get a loan. The debtor planned on settling for $5k, taking their receipt to the bank to apply for the loan, then they thought they could issue a chargeback on their card and essentially close the account out and still have a receipt saying that they paid. I could have told the debtor how stupid that was or got a manager involved but that 5k payment put me at way over goal and I received a nice bonus check that month. Fast forward a few months later and I'm notified of the charge back back by a manager. When I call the debtor he was acting really smug until he realized that as soon as the chargeback went through we updated his credit report to reflect the delinquent status so now his loan with the bank for his house was in jeopardy of not going through. At the point all he wanted to was pay the $5k to get this over with. Unfortunately for him the creditor was no longer offering a settlement so he had to pay the full $15k and I got an even bigger bonus check that month.
Wonderful 3 years ago
I got caught once singing a made up song to the elevator music. The guy was laughing so much he had to hit the mute button again. I melted into a embarrassed pile of goo. I cringe now thinking about it, I had been singing for over 5 minutes by that point. I just imagine they play the recording at the end of meetings for a good chuckle.
#22
Business conference call, the other side had asked some pretty stupid questions but was still poised to do >$1M worth of business with us. Thinking the call had ended, one guy in the room started calling them f*****g idiots and talking about how what they were trying to do was never going to work, etc. They didn't say anything else, but we all heard the sound of the other side disconnecting and they later reached out and said they were going to go in another direction.
JASH80 3 years ago
depends on the kind of question. My clients ask so much stuff they're supposed to already know or figure out asking their own recon team, it's crazy
Load More Replies... Memere 3 years ago
Apparently he was fired but went on to start his own business in the same field & has been successful!
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Not sure if this fits
I sat in on a remote interview. We were in the conference room with 2 screens - 1 showing the interviewee and the other showing us.
Nearing the end of the interview I noticed my boss had seemed to develop an unusual neck spasm. He would face the screen then suddenly look to the side then face the screen again.
At the end of the interview, as the candidate was exchanging thank you etc, I learnt over and asked if my boss was ok.
His answer was just loud enough to be picked up by the microphone: if you twist fast enough you can see your own ear!
Needless to say the job offer was not accepted 😁
Fat Harry 3 years ago
Could go either way. Either he's got a sense of humour or he's like the point-head boss from Dilbert.
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#24
friend called me for a quick question followed by an a*s exploding in a toilet before he hung up. was not the type of friend to do that sort of thing so it was hilarious
Nikole 3 years ago
It belongs to a hotel that also plays hide and seek with the toilet paper...
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Milady Blue 3 years ago
How important was the question that it could not have waited until you were done in the bathroom? Eeewww!
Alexej Dvorak 3 years ago
I can not express with words how much I'm bothered by the round flush buttons in this ensemble.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I do community theater and there have been several times during performances that the sound person forgot to turn off the body microphone of someone who was offstage. Which meant the audience could hear whatever that person was doing - including going to the bathroom. Most of the time they think it's funny.
#25
A doctor’s office: “f**k you, Dave!”
I don’t know who Dave is. I’m not Dave.
Hugo Raible 3 years ago
Doctor: Don't be nervous, David. It's just a simple heart surgery. Patient: My name is not David. Doctor: I know... I'm David.
#26
Grandma left me a voicemail asking for my help with stuff on her computer. She thought she hung up but she didn’t and I hear her call me a “f*****g b***h.” Haven’t really talked to her since.
Simspyder40 3 years ago
I'm a grandmother and adore my kids and grandkids, but I call my pc a mother f****r and f*****g b***h allll the time. Maybe she was just frustrated with the pc.
Snowfoxrox 3 years ago
My MIL talked straight sh*t about her 2 daughters for 5 mins once when she thought she'd ended the call. One of them completely disowned her and the other is very particular in her dealings with her. My hubs has never had any questions about how she felt about him (not nice) and has maintained neutrality.
#27
My father in law (who is 86) can't work his phone too well. He always, I mean always gets phone calls at dinner time. So once a week when he is over, he gets a call. And it's always from someone different. 9 times out of 10 he makes a smart remark about not liking them. 8 times out of 10 he hasn't hung up yet but thought he did.
EDIT: Example
Him: "Boy, they never stop talking"
Me: "Ummm let me help you end this call"
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
If he keeps it up long enough, he'll have offended everyone who calls him =0)
James Arvidson 3 years ago
Said that to a project manager and once. That he talks too much. That he should do.more and talk less.
Isaac Harvey 3 years ago
My grandmother once called me to help turn her phone’s flashlight off, which I helped with… and a few minutes after that call ended, called again asking how to turn her phone’s screen off. I obviously helped, and we laughed together before hanging up.
#28
“He said his biggest regret was losing me as his manager.” My boss talking to his daughter after I gave my notice. He was an average manager at best and I never really commented on his management skills one way or the other.
NinaRosario 3 years ago
Wow, a bit delusional of the boss... I would honestly have said something on the line. You have nothing to lose since you're quitting anyway ;)
#29
That 911 call where the guy says “I honestly don’t give a s**t what happens to you”.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
Like the dispatcher who hung up on the person reporting the Top's massacre. The dispatcher kept telling the caller to speak up. The caller was hiding from the shooter at the time.
Meh 3 years ago
I remember a story about a 911 operator berating a woman who was trapped in her car during a storm. She had driven into what she thought was a large puddle but turned out to be much bigger/deeper and she ended up trapped . The 911 women was awful to her yelling her to stop over reacting when the trapped woman said she was frightened and thought she was going to die. The excuse the 911 woman gave was that she was due to finish her shift and basically couldn't be bothered :(
Load More Replies... Milady Blue 3 years ago
Wow, SMART idea, considering that ALL 911 calls are recorded. What a dipstick, it is VERY easy for 911 dispatchers to be fired for unprofessional behavior - and they have VERY strict standards. I worked at an answering service with a gal who worked for 911, and she ended up quitting after a couple of months because of the stress.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I have heard this sort of thing about other dispatchers too. Makes me wonder why they are working that job.
Meh 3 years ago
I remember a story about a 911 operator berating a woman who was trapped in her car during a storm. She had driven into what she thought was a large puddle but turned out to be much bigger/deeper and she ended up trapped . The 911 women was awful to her yelling her to stop over reacting when the trapped woman said she was frightened and thought she was going to die. The excuse the 911 woman gave was that she was due to finish her shift and basically couldn't be bothered :(
#30
After a business convo: 'I don't trust those guys'
Se Mai 3 years ago
I don’t trust anyone, so why would i trust those businesses guys?
Load More Replies... James Arvidson 3 years ago
An often repeated refrain as the decision to not do business with them is made. If I can't trust you a signed contract won't force honesty.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Were they overheard or were they meant to hear it? I've said stuff like this on purpose, because someone needed to say it.
#31
"Get that out of your brother's butt right now!" Heard while working tech support long ago. The woman had two young children at home that I could hear raising hell in the background during the call.
kews 3 years ago
Sadly, as a mom of two young boys, this doesn't surprise me at all. It's basically expected
Load More Replies... feelthefebreze 3 years ago
i don't get what's special about this one, my mom has to say that one all the time
#32
In the early days of Facebook, my former father in law was just discovering it and connecting with old friends. He was having fun seeing who gained weight, who got divorced, who’s a millionaire now, and so on. One guy he connected with gave him his phone number, so FIL calls him. He didn’t answer so he leaves a message something like “hey ‘bill’, it’s been a while just wanted to catch up, give me a call back at ‘*phone number*’,” and then hit the end button and jokingly said, “and I heard you got fat!” He then looked down and to his horror the call was still active and recording the message, so it probably sounded like “….and I heard you got fat!….oh s**t! Oh my god it didn’t hang up, f**k it’s still recor….(click). To my knowledge, dude never returned that call.
#33
Not me, but a friend of mine called up the bank to deal with some screw up on their part. After a few minutes talking to the agent on the phone, they say "just give me a few moments to change this on the computer" and goes quiet for a minute. Then my friend says to me "oh so she's going to give me the old put him on hold until they hangup trick now" At which point the agent says "sir I'd never do that to a customer'.... whoops!
#34
last year, my job was monitoring call quality so I would usually listen to phone agents in real time. In one instance, there was a caller that was simply not understanding what was being said. After the agent got off the phone with him, there was a 3 second window where I can still hear the agent scream "JESUS, F**K HIM". Didn't mark them for it as the call had technically ended at that point.
Another time where someone placed a caller on hold, but because of how the phone system works I can hear the agent even if the caller is hearing music. she placed the caller on hold to call her sister and plan a vacation.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
I once worked in a call center for a major bank in a department that assisted college financial aid counselors with their students' loans. We weren't allowed to keep them on hold for very long... they were able to monitor us for things like that. As an aside, my desk was behind the manager's station and I could always tell when he was listening to a particular agent's call because he'd have his shaking head in his hands.
#35
I worked in sales (inbound call) and had a pleasant conversation with a customer who politely declined the offer and told me she was going to look elsewhere. We said our goodbyes, nothing out of the ordinary. Really sweet lady, had called in with her husband.
As soon as she thought she hung up, she slammed her phone down and starts yelling at her husband “f**k (company name) are you f*****g s******g me right now? $350 a f*****g year? I’m not paying that much for this goddamn piece of s**t (product) how the f**k could that b***h pitch that with a straight f*****g face?”
I gave her the decency of hanging up myself after that but she was 100% in the right being pissed haha.
Edit: inbound means she called us to update, not the other way around for those confused. I said she was justified because the company sucks d***s. It was exactly what she called in for, just with a price increase she wasn’t expecting.
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
Reminds me of the days that I used to try and sell Kirby Vacuum Cleaners. They used to prey off the elderly a lot.
#36
My best friend at the time had been conducting a year-long prank on me in middle school, when I was too stupid to know any better. She claimed to have a brother that had seen me on campus and had a crush on me. She did a very convincing voice impression of a guy and would "hand off" the phone to her brother when I would call sometimes. She was living with her grandparents while her other siblings, (two sisters that were real and the brother that wasn't real) lived with her mom, so when I went over to visit, I never saw him and never suspected a thing. One day I was talking to this fake brother and it was starting to get a little intimate. I was a romantic, what can I say? He abruptly tried to end the call, and thought he had when I heard my best friend say. "That was close, she almost got me." I proceeded to correct her and didn't talk to her for months. Later on, due to other events I won't get into, I suspected she was a lesbian who actually had a crush on me and was in denial. Don't know where she is now and it's been years since I've heard from her.
JASH80 3 years ago
it's probably why she started the entire thing - so she could flirt without having to admit (even to herself) she liked OP
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I hate that MF a*****e but he knows his s**t!
Tiger Pearl 3 years ago
Wow, they hate you but are complimenting your knowledge anyway. You must be really good at what you do!
#38
he’s cute but kinda weird
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
Well some of us are just kind weird, not so much cute. At least that's what I get told.
Load More Replies... Melissa Rodriguez 3 years ago
How I'd want to be remembered. This goes on my headstone for sure
#39
Somehow the sound of a brick landing on a sheet metal roof.
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
I Just want to know what they did to get kicked out of the airplane overhead?
What do you think ?
Dr. Carlos Dangercat 3 years ago
My coworker once ended a call with me "ok, love you, bye!" which I assume was a habit from talking to his wife as we weren't on those terms!!
sanityisnotproven 3 years ago
I do that. Then immediately face palm myself. It's a habit as most my calls are with my kids and I make it a policy to always have "I love you" be the ending of any convo with them, phone, email, in person....always. I never got to say "I love you" one last time to my mom before she died. In fact the last interaction with her was a fight with my sister and her asking us to stop because she had a horrible headache (she was rushed to the hospital that night because of a brain aneurysm and never came home). Of course my dumb 14 yr old teen age brain decided being snarky was better than apologizing and expressing concern. Regret that to this day and I will always end my convos to the people I love with "I love you". You never know when that will be the last time you see them.
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Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
Used to do training for a call center that dealt mainly with an elderly population. One of the big things I reinforced over and over and over was that "mute" didn't always work. And you know how voicemails say the calls will be listened to for training purposes? True. So to reinforce the point that mute doesn't mean mute, I played a call with an agent who, very kindly, told the confused but sweet elderly customer, that she was putting her on hold for a moment. She hit mute. She was not muted. She went on an expletive-laden rant about the woman, who was confused for good reason!!! The old lady began to cry. The representative lost her job. That call scared my students into never believing mute... ever.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
My mother needs a flip phone. We got her a smartphone, but she can't seem to end calls on them. The red button just doesn't seem to work. So we... got her an old flipphone. She flips it, call ends, no more entertaining rants by Mom featuring her opinion on whoever invented touchscreen technology.
Ter Mite 3 years ago (edited)
Was on my way to a customers house and called them to tell them i would be 10 mins late, she very politely thanked me for calling and then tried to hang up but didnt, then immediately started screaming and cussing about me and how her whole day was ruined. I try my best but sometimes life happens and you run late....
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
I had a colleague leave me a long voicemail explaining an issue and what he wanted to do. The voicemail was too long and he ran out of time. I could hear him saying “Oh s***!” as he realized he was getting cut off. But he must have thought the voicemail didn’t send because he called back and said everything again, ran out of time again and said “F*** it, f••• it!” before getting cutoff a second time. So he calls my voicemail a third time and leaves me a message “Call me, it’s John.”. Of course, I shared all his voicemails with the whole team and laughed myself sick.
kim morris 3 years ago
I used to live in a rural area, upper state NY. Picked up the phone to call my ex, and could hear him talking on the phone with our milkmaid. Dairy farm, there are still milkmaids. She was describing what she was making him for breakfast. very sweetly. and affectionately. They could not hear me, and every time I hung up, trying to end the call, and picked it up again, they were still on the phone, talking about the wonderful breakfast she was making him. He was not encouraging her, she was the one making the breakfast, he was trying to get the barnwork done. He had plausible deniability. She was all evil. We're divorced now. They're unhappily married.
kim morris 3 years ago
I wrote that confusedly . we were married when this happened.
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Kit The Dudess 3 years ago
My mother is a toxic, malignant narcissist. Myself & my youngest daughter got phone call from my father (the kindest, gentlest, intelligent, most loving man on earth, who was suffering with progression of Alzheimer’s Disease). My vile, jealous mother was at home sat next to my wonderful father (before she dumped him in a dementia unit) and thought he had hung up the call after a conversation with me then my daughter. My toxic, cruel, wicked mother then spends ten minutes slagging me off to my father, a form of abuse in itself as she was trying to turn him against me in the most hurtful, untrue, evil things she was saying about me. My daughter & I heard it all! It was horrendous & extreme. Note: my mother told me when I had just experienced a traumatic emergency caesarean with my first child at the age of 25 that she’d suffered for 25 years knowing that her husband loved their daughter more than his wife?!!! My father died in 2013. The nasty old woman & I are estranged.
Dr. Carlos Dangercat 3 years ago
My coworker once ended a call with me "ok, love you, bye!" which I assume was a habit from talking to his wife as we weren't on those terms!!
sanityisnotproven 3 years ago
I do that. Then immediately face palm myself. It's a habit as most my calls are with my kids and I make it a policy to always have "I love you" be the ending of any convo with them, phone, email, in person....always. I never got to say "I love you" one last time to my mom before she died. In fact the last interaction with her was a fight with my sister and her asking us to stop because she had a horrible headache (she was rushed to the hospital that night because of a brain aneurysm and never came home). Of course my dumb 14 yr old teen age brain decided being snarky was better than apologizing and expressing concern. Regret that to this day and I will always end my convos to the people I love with "I love you". You never know when that will be the last time you see them.
Load More Replies... Kristin Ingersoll 3 years ago
Used to do training for a call center that dealt mainly with an elderly population. One of the big things I reinforced over and over and over was that "mute" didn't always work. And you know how voicemails say the calls will be listened to for training purposes? True. So to reinforce the point that mute doesn't mean mute, I played a call with an agent who, very kindly, told the confused but sweet elderly customer, that she was putting her on hold for a moment. She hit mute. She was not muted. She went on an expletive-laden rant about the woman, who was confused for good reason!!! The old lady began to cry. The representative lost her job. That call scared my students into never believing mute... ever.
Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
My mother needs a flip phone. We got her a smartphone, but she can't seem to end calls on them. The red button just doesn't seem to work. So we... got her an old flipphone. She flips it, call ends, no more entertaining rants by Mom featuring her opinion on whoever invented touchscreen technology.
Ter Mite 3 years ago (edited)
Was on my way to a customers house and called them to tell them i would be 10 mins late, she very politely thanked me for calling and then tried to hang up but didnt, then immediately started screaming and cussing about me and how her whole day was ruined. I try my best but sometimes life happens and you run late....
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
I had a colleague leave me a long voicemail explaining an issue and what he wanted to do. The voicemail was too long and he ran out of time. I could hear him saying “Oh s***!” as he realized he was getting cut off. But he must have thought the voicemail didn’t send because he called back and said everything again, ran out of time again and said “F*** it, f••• it!” before getting cutoff a second time. So he calls my voicemail a third time and leaves me a message “Call me, it’s John.”. Of course, I shared all his voicemails with the whole team and laughed myself sick.
kim morris 3 years ago
I used to live in a rural area, upper state NY. Picked up the phone to call my ex, and could hear him talking on the phone with our milkmaid. Dairy farm, there are still milkmaids. She was describing what she was making him for breakfast. very sweetly. and affectionately. They could not hear me, and every time I hung up, trying to end the call, and picked it up again, they were still on the phone, talking about the wonderful breakfast she was making him. He was not encouraging her, she was the one making the breakfast, he was trying to get the barnwork done. He had plausible deniability. She was all evil. We're divorced now. They're unhappily married.
kim morris 3 years ago
I wrote that confusedly . we were married when this happened.
Load More Replies... Kit The Dudess 3 years ago
My mother is a toxic, malignant narcissist. Myself & my youngest daughter got phone call from my father (the kindest, gentlest, intelligent, most loving man on earth, who was suffering with progression of Alzheimer’s Disease). My vile, jealous mother was at home sat next to my wonderful father (before she dumped him in a dementia unit) and thought he had hung up the call after a conversation with me then my daughter. My toxic, cruel, wicked mother then spends ten minutes slagging me off to my father, a form of abuse in itself as she was trying to turn him against me in the most hurtful, untrue, evil things she was saying about me. My daughter & I heard it all! It was horrendous & extreme. Note: my mother told me when I had just experienced a traumatic emergency caesarean with my first child at the age of 25 that she’d suffered for 25 years knowing that her husband loved their daughter more than his wife?!!! My father died in 2013. The nasty old woman & I are estranged.
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