#idk if I've ever actually yelled at someone?? I have occasional used the slightly raised parental voice

[tj-crochets]

Weird story from work today! Apparently contractors called my boss and complained about a very specific untrue thing

Today at work I got a call from my boss. “Hey TJ,” she said “you’re not in trouble, but I’ve been getting some feedback from some of the contractors you work with, and I want to run it by you. They said you never answer your phone and are only available by email or text.” I said “That’s weird. I’ve been on the phone with contractors pretty much constantly today. I do tell the contractors that if I don’t answer a call, it’s probably because I am on another call, and if they text or email me their question I might be able to answer while I am on the other call” “I thought it was something like that. There’s always someone who will call twenty times a day, and you answer the first nineteen, then he’ll call your boss when you don’t answer the twentieth call of the day.” She said, and we both kind of chuckled. “Also, I heard from one of the contractors that you told them never to call you” “What?” “They said you told them you couldn’t answer calls because it would disturb your new baby. You don’t have a new baby, right?” “Not that I know of?????” “Yeah, I thought you would have announced it” Easily one of the most bizarre phone calls of my professional life, but my boss was nice about it!

#the person behind the yarn #tj talks about work #idk what else to tag this as??? weird work story? #contractors assuming weird things about my personal life??? #my boss was SUPER nice about it though. after she'd gone over the feedback with me #she said I was doing a great job and asked for any feedback I had about the new contractors our company has been working with #had another long weird work story happen #but cutting it way short: someone accused me of screaming at them when they had in fact been screaming at me #and my boss said 'have you MET tj? I don't think she's ever yelled at someone in her life. I don't think she could!' #and initially I was like hey I could yell at people if I want to! and then I thought about it and I think she might be right????? #idk if I've ever actually yelled at someone?? I have occasional used the slightly raised parental voice #mostly in a DON'T EAT THAT kind of context with toddlers #but that's not yelling it's just firm. if you yell you panic and if you panic with toddlers they panic #or they laugh at you. could go either way #anyway got sidetracked point is: told my dad #and he said 'I'm proud of all my grandchildren. Even the fictional ones'