AuburnChick's Adventures

Happy Friday, y’all!

I don’t know about you, but it has been a week.

Wowsa!

I thought I’d share a quick little story.

As I’ve mentioned a time or two recently, my job has gotten very busy as we approach the start of a new Fall semester.

I enter numbers on the computer all day long while answering phone calls and attending to visitors’ needs.

I have a call log where I record information about a caller if I’m transferring that caller to an advisor in my office. One of the pieces of info I grab is the person’s phone number.

Usually, I snag it from the caller ID while the person is describing the reason for their call.

During such a call Monday morning, I got lazy and asked the student I was speaking with for his number in case the call dropped. He said, “Oh, a different number from what I’m calling from?”

My standard mantra is, “I have old eyes. Can you confirm the number I’m seeing on my phone?”

For whatever reason, unknown to me, what I actually said was, “I have small eyes. Can you give me your number?”

SMALL?????

What the heck?

I immediately started laughing.

A lot.

He started laughing.

Our student worker started laughing.

Y’all, Sometimes I just cannot with myself.

I got through the call, a bit mortified, transferred him, and went to the back to tell my boss about it.

She started laughing and asked if I’d told him I’d transfer him to someone with big eyes.

It’s safe to say that when you start off the week like that, you give Friday a big old hug and make a dash for the weekend.

Oh, and just so you know, I ended the week by being over by one hour on my time clock because me and time clock math do not get along.

I didn’t correctly add up the number of hours I needed to make up for the doctor’s appointment and PT session I had this week, so I’d worked through lunch one too many days. There’s a strict adherence to 40-hour weeks because we do not get overtime pay.

Needless to say, my boss called an audible; I’m getting off of work early today.

That’s probably a good thing at the rate I’m going.

Have a wonderful weekend, y’all!

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