#coincidentally the retail manager (NOT my manager but A manager) appears with a joiner who he is showing around and explaining some work

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I really think I only get by at work because I look a bit pathetic all the time and people take pity on me

#people really let me get away with insane levels of incompetence and for what #case in point: the phone rang and my immediate reaction was to say ‘oh god why’ and then pick it up before i could second guess it #i babbled ‘hello; [name of workplace]; ellen lastname speaking?’ and then i was so anxious i didn’t listen to what the person said #i understood enough to realise we were either being auditied OR asked to make an order. both of these options made me panic because girl #i am not even CLOSE to being equipped to do either of those things. two seconds ago i was disinfecting a shelf and now i’m talking #to someone who seems to be welsh. i’m confused #so i said ‘uhhhh i’m going to get a manager sorry. it’ll just be a minute’ and i leave the phone on the hook #coincidentally the retail manager (NOT my manager but A manager) appears with a joiner who he is showing around and explaining some work #that needs to be done; and i hand him the phone and am like ‘i have no idea who’s on the phone but they need to speak to a manager’ #he takes it from me and is like ‘[name] here. someone will call you back’ hangs up and looks at me like i’m some horrendous pleb #‘it’s a wholesale frozen food company. tell [assistant catering manager] they called’ and i’m like ‘okay sorry. thanks’ #i felt soooooo stupid but nothing bad happened! and the assistant manager said we don’t order from them anymore because their stuff isn’t #good lol. so that was funny #this is why i don’t answer phones girl. #i was expecting it to be someone calling in sick (aka the only thing i was equipped to deal with) that was why i picked up tbh #because like who else has SPECIFICALLY the catering number. why do these people have it. so weird #but yeah. i really think i only got away with this because i’m so deeply pathetic looking lol #like gerry could never get away with this sort of thing #there’s a reason our boss’s boss asked gerry if he knew how to cash up yet and didn’t bother asking me. like. i OBVIOUSLY don’t know #i can’t even be relied upon to answer a phone lmao. i MOP FLOORS WRONG #world’s most incompetent barista over here ✨ #personal