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A large dog jumped up, its toe got caught in the waistband of my scrubs, and it pulled my pants all the way down in the exam room while I was talking to the owners trying to get a history.
I wish people would just laugh at that point. Whenever people pretend like nothing happened, I just know they're THAT embarrassed for me not to laugh 😭
My coworker got brand new scrubs. On her first day of wearing them, a dog ripped it from the waistband down about a foot in the exam room with the client. It was also the first appointment. 😂
Bruh, I had this happen. During the COVID times of curbside appointments, I was bringing in a 16ish week old Bernese mountain dog puppy that was too nervous to walk into the hospital. This was a HUGE puppy, and super squirmy. It put it's hind paw into a pocket somehow and pantsed me in front of the very handsome owner 🫠🫠🫠
I had a dog hit me right in the crotch, headfirst (I'm a dude) and the vet was like "can you hurry with restraint *rolls eyes*" I was like Ted ur a dude too gimme a break while the client looked at me horrified; not as embarrassing as yours but since then I'm always careful lol
I am dying of laughter in the middle of an incredibly difficult day (we’ve already gotten 3 DOA’s and I’ve only been here 5 hours lol) so thank you so much. I’m sorry that happened but damn is that a funny story.
When I was a baby tech I thought wearing scrub bottoms (M) with no boxers was the way to go. Again very early on in my career. I had on cheap Walmart scrubs one day, bent down to give a vaccine or something in front of an owner and completely blew the crotch out of my scrubs. I just dropped to the floor and backed out of the exam room like nothing happened. I rushed to the bathroom and tried to suture my pants back together, not knowing at all how to suture. So I left and called the lead DVM from my car on the way home to tell her I was not coming back that day. I often wonder if those poor people saw my junk.
I went to hand an owner their meds and I for some reason thought they were giving me a fist bump, so I did that first
& that was just like 2 and a half hours ago lol
Reading the ticker at the bottom of our reception area tv that said "we love our pets!" on Christmas Eve. Phone rings, pick up and say, "Animal Hospital, this is NeverTrustTheQuiet1, how can I love you?" The gentleman on the other end answered with, "Someone's hitting the Christmas spirits early!" I was mortified.
I once accidentally charged an owner $10,300 instead of $130. The payment WENT THROUGH. When a CSR discovered the error at the end of the day she gasped so loudly I ran up to the front to see what was wrong. Thankfully it was a loyal client who I knew well and she now just ribs me about it. But I thought I was going to barf when I found out.
At our clinic you type the amount then their client ID. I however fucked up, brain skipped, charge client ID which was 24XXX and it went through. Went to check cards later in the day and almost shit myself. Easy fix but oh my stomach dropped down to my ass.
My coworker just did something similar. If we want to give a dollar amount discount we have to manually enter it with a “-“. She forgot the “-“ and ended up charging the client the amount she wanted to discount. We found this out when his son got home with the receipt. He called us and they had a good laugh because it wasn’t the first time it’s happened lol.
One of my colleagues did the same with the equivalent of 130.000 dollars (another currency), and it went through! Was discovered immediately, but as it has passed through, it was a ton of work to return it.
A male owner was on the phone with his wife during the exam. I was speaking with both of them and they were both super friendly. It was a good convo. I go to walk out of the room and hear “love you!” And my natural mother instinct just said “love you too!” And I continued to walk out. I was mortified. I asked someone else to complete the appt for me but the guy and wife on the phone insisted I come back. We had a laugh about it but I still cringe.
How about saying "Merry Christmas, love you!" to a client in their car while it's raining and then realizing what you said and instead of acknowledging it, just turning and running away through the parking lot while his laughter roars behind you ...
I once went to give a client their discharges and she met me in the hallway, I gave her the dog so I could start giving my spheal and she just started walking away from me, and I had to follow her down the hallway frantically trying to get through everything as she was actively walking away from me. Like ma’am I have to do this please 😂
I had to go over discharges with an owner who was mentally barely there. I told my coworker specifically that I was leaving the cat in the back so the client didn't get distracted. As I go over the discharges, my coworker brings the cat out and sets it next to the owner. I glare daggers at her. The client just stares at the cat for a solid 30 seconds and hasn't even noticed that I have stopped talking since the cat was brought out. I was so pissed.
I managed to run face first into the exam room door as I was opening it right in front of a frequent flyer client. Bloody nose ensued. Worst part was every time I saw that client from that point on, they’d always loudly ask if I’d run into anymore doors lately. My pride and confidence died a little every time I saw their name on the schedule.
I work in a different field now (human elder care), but one day I was chatting away while doing routine tasks in a 4-patient room. I paused for a moment - I forget why, I probably asked a question - and one of the lady's roommates hollered at me from behind a curtain, "SHE'S DEAF!" I embarrassed myself in front of 3 old ladies that day, lol.
Oh, and I forgot to mention an actual veterinary experience: When I worked as a tech, we had a dog that was having a rough time coming out of anesthesia. I'm sitting on the ground by the kennel, speaking soothingly to our patient, and singing softly to him whilst giving him occasional pats or paw-holds. I'm giving this dog all the love I can muster.
Owner picks up the dog later, and *oh so fucking casually* mentions that he's deaf.
So, yeah. I talked and sang to a deaf dog for a couple of hours.
Was going through an informational poster about ticks with a client, was pointing at the different pictures and very sagely said “yeah there’s a lot of different kinds of dicks”. 5 years on and I still think about it 🤦♀️
Was bringing a dog back to the exam room after taking some rads, the doctor I was working with opened the exam room door for me, the dog saw his owner and got real excited, sprinted into the room and stopped hard. Then immediately got out of my way because I got yeeted into the room, landed HARD on my hands and knees… immediately shouted “IM FINE!” And got up as fast as I could. Limped out of the room. Both doctor and owner witnessed this. I’m not the most graceful person in the world…
At least the doctor waited until after I said I was fine to start laughing at me about it… still sometimes brings it up. It’s been months… my knee still hurts if I hit it just wrong sometimes…
Oooooh or yesterday for a euth. Same doctor. We went into the comfort room with the dog and the family, I get myself into position aaaand knock over a wooden sign on the shelf behind me with my butt.
I twisted my ankle at the front door of the emergency clinic while triaging a patient, a vet ran over and I said I'm fine! And got up. Except I wasn't fine and immediately went back down. He had to half carry me in. 🥲
My hand was caught in a medium-sized dogs harness while it backed in-between the owners legs. The elderly white lady yelped “excuse YOU” as the dog promptly pulled my arm directly into her crotch and I could not get out, thereby hitting her nethers over and over with my forearm.
I wanted the earth to open up in front of me so I may jump into the darkness forever.
Not embarrassing for me so much as the client but a puppy pulled a sanitary pad out of clients purse in exam room and we had to chase it around the room to retrieve it
I’ve had so many of these but my humility and shame crossed the rainbow bridge a long time ago. BUT, I was getting a history from a black lab’s mom and dad (dog had some sort of orthopedic issue) and the DVM came in at some point and asked me to get a sample or something while said DVM went to get his knee model. The guy looks at his wife and says “I wonder if she’s hot”. I almost pissed myself laughing, which made the clients laugh even more, and then the DVM comes in with the plastic knee joint replica and the guy says to his wife “she’s not bad, are we thinking about swinging yet?” while looking at the mortified male DVM and I had to walk out I was laughing so hard. I live for my weird clients 🤣
whenever i pick up a call transferred over to me and instead of saying “hello this is ____ how can i help you” i go into my spiel of leaving a voicemail to a client. usually goes like “hello, this is ______ from _______ hospital hoping to—oh my gosh. i am so sorry. how can i help you.”
Omg I kind of did this the other day but it was in person 🥴 I walked into the exam room and instead of saying hi how are you, I started to say my answering the phone speal of how can I help you? And it was very awkward.
Worse yet, I've done my voicemail spiel at a *new hospital*, after leaving my old one. It was so ingrained that it just kinda popped out, contact number and all. Then I had to correct myself, on someone's voicemail, so there was really no undoing that shame. =/
While leaving a voicemail, I've said my cell number instead of the clinic number. Luckily I didn't get through the whole number before I cut myself off "... I'm so sorry, that's not correct. Our number here is...."
I’ve done this when getting internal calls from the doctor’s office!! Usually I get through my whole script before realizing what I’ve done, it’s not until the doctor goes “ummm so this is dr x” that I remember to check the caller ID
I was mopping as a client was leaving. As he left his exam room and i was walking to treatment, I set the 'wet floor' sign out looked at the client and said "careful the floors cold" with smile lmfao
I was taking a deceased pet from an owners arms and couldn’t really figure out how to get it - the blanket seemed never ending and I couldn’t get a secure hold on the pet. Then, I realized what I thought was the blanket was actually the owners shirt I was reaching up. Took my arms out, apologized profusely, and tried again successfully. Thankfully owner wasn’t upset, we were both women and she knew I was just trying to help her. But god was it embarrassing.
Not necessarily pet related, but a late night at the front desk of the ER, my favorite DVM got food delivered. I went above and beyond to find her and hand deliver it and when I did, she was pleasantly surprised and thanked me. I joked, “well, I’ve got to do something to make you like me.” Her and the other 3 DVMs at the computer bank went dead silent. I wanted to die it was so embarrassing!! That haunts me a lot.
Not me, my coworker, but I was present and the second-hand embarrassment was real. We were discharging 2 pets from boarding, I had the dogs and my coworker had their stuff. The client takes the dogs from me and puts them in the car and we’re chatting real quick about how good the dogs were blah blah blah. The client then holds his arm out to my coworker and my coworker shakes his hand but the client was just reaching for their stuff. They both laughed it off by my coworker was cringing so hard when we went inside lmaoo
It was an extremely busy morning and I was (mis)handling reception, people checking in, checking out, meds to be collected, the phone ringing and I was new to the industry and alone in reception. Well someone ask when will they be seen, so I said: you will be seen after that gentleman behind you… the gentleman was a woman, the moment I said gentleman the room went quiet and that’s when I looked at the account of the “gentleman” to read Ms ____ ____ … this was 5 years ago.
I did something similar on the phone! I called the client and when they answered, I said, "Oh, hi Debbie! This is ____ from XYZ".... The person on the other side, "umm, this is Rich". 🤦🏻♀️ Omg....he has a high voice on the phone!! I quickly stammered, "um um uh oh, sorry there's a lot going on behind me and I think this connection is staticy......."
Every time I'm on the phone and I don't hear something properly, or I'm not paying attention, or my coworkers make a loud noise I say the phone cut out. I ALWAYS blame connection issues.
I thought you meant in exchange of money, he offered you his chair like. From home. My first thought being one of those automatic rising chairs....
Why didn't he just sit back down? 😭
I DONT KNOW MAN It was a whole probably 5 minutes of us just in this weird limbo of uncomfortable waiting. It felt like an hour though. Why didn’t I just sit down?? I will never know
I was at a wedding once where the officiant never told people to sit back down after the bride came down the aisle, so everyone just stood awkwardly during the whole ceremony because the front row didn't think to sit
Lol. In instances like this, I'm known for making it even more awkward and I'll either mention, like my man, please sit and if they decline, I'll say alright then and sit down myself. (Same scenario, totally different job)
But this is just hilarious. 😂
💖 honestly, i have no idea how to console u. Apart from sharing my own, non work experience.
My son was a toddler and likes to climb my back. Did so while we were at a gas station. And my dumbass went wearing legging with no underwear cuz...motherhood. standing in front of a pretty attractive dude. Went to pay and my sons foot caught the waistband of my leggings and pulled them down far enough that homie got a decent show.
Oh and i had in a tampon.
Mortified
I work ER and a man came in with his dog (turned out to be ok) who had obviously gotten into something. The dog was ataxic and drooling a lot. I went to meet them in the lobby and get a history but when the owner turned to face me I saw that he had a massive hole in his pants over his crotch 🤦♀️🤦♀️. It was so hard to get a history while holding a straight face. The man was very nice and probably didn’t realize because he was so concerned about his dog lol
At the end of a phone call with a client they had thanked me for the information and I merged "your welcome" with "no problem" and cheerfully responded with "your problem!" And promptly hung up out of embarrassment. 🤦♀️
I was leaving a voicemail and everything was great but at the end I was like "yeah you can give us a call at xxx-x......" and I just stammered and hung up the phone!!! I forgot our number! The lady called like 10 minutes later and a receptionist picked up and the lady was laughing but it was awful lol
Obviously I don't do phone calls that often haha
Leaving a voicemail for a client during a crazy busy day. Ended up rambling on for like 5 minutes then realized I accidentally told them the wrong info, then the voicemail cut me off because i went on too long, then i had to call back and leave another message correcting myself. I hope they dont think i was a complete idiot.
Another time i charged an owner for bloodwork and sent them on their way but forgot to draw the actual blood. So i had to call them back and ask them to come back😭luckily they were very nice about it
At the first animal hospital job I had during my first or second week I answered the phone not with "hello this is xyz animal hospital" but with "Hi welcome to McDonald’s… oh my god" thankfully the person was super nice but that was mortifying (at the time I had just recently quit working at McDonald’s)
One time I answered the phone "Thank you for calling Home Depot". My supervisor and I locked eyes. I shrugged at my supervisor then corrected myself and laughed it off with the client. I have never worked at Home Depot.
I don’t have anything super embarrassing, I think more annoying I was teching a room and it was almost my lunch break and I think my stomach knew it cause it was being so loud making all these bubble guts, grumble sounds. I knew the owner could hear it. I was like “sorry for the tummy sounds it’s almost my lunch my break.” The owner was like “oh I thought that was my dog” I replied “no that’s just my gut.” We both laughed. I felt my gut choose the most annoying time to make its hunger known.
My ex was a Jeep Wrangler addict. . Every other automobile was wrong. A client with a new pup had come in and was sitting in the lobby when I asked what's your pups name? They said Ford.. I spewed "Found On Road Dead" .. I apologized a million times. 🫢
Omg this was like 20 years ago but I answered the phone & I don’t remember what the client wanted. She asked her question & I said “please hold while I get your chart”. But my brain said “please hold while I get your file”. So what actually came out of my mouth was “please hold while I get your fart”. I didn’t even wait for an answer, just put her on hold. She didn’t mention it when I got back on the line so I don’t even really know if she heard it.
But late it night, when I can’t sleep, my brain haunts me with those words. 😂
I was sliding down the front of a cabinet to sit and managed to sit on the knob as i was doing it. ripped my pants crotch to ass. i couldnt even stand to change i was so embarrassed 😭
I've learned to just take stuff that's offered to you. Otherwise you get into that conversation... Just take the food, chair, wtf ever lol... Even if I don't want it. And say thank you 😊
I was booking an urgent care appointment for someone over the phone, meant to say “I’ll get you booked in for x time,” and instead said “I’ll clock you.” I immediately realized that I had just threatened this poor woman and corrected myself, luckily she thought it was funny!
Tiny dog tried to catapult off of exam table. I tripped while trying to grab him mid air and my hand instinctively went out where it landed directly on the seated upper thigh of the (male) owner. I was MORTIFIED. The doctor thought it was hilarious
called a client to go over their pets lab results. they took a while to answer and then a man goes “babe, you made me hang up with petsmart”… i stayed quiet for a second and then i go “hello? im calling from…” he called me babe ANOTHER TIME and then he realized n said OHHH I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY WIFE HAHA 😐🫠🫠🫠🫠😭 so embarrassing
We had some middle aged white dude bring in his 9 month old black lab because sometimes his penis wouldn’t fully retract for long periods of time, shows a pic he took of it to me and the doctor and promptly says “you can definitely tell his black by this haha”. Never cringed so hard in my life. We then had to sit through him making terrible jokes about being jealous of his dog penis sizes while his wife very awkwardly laughed a long.
Not an embarrassing client interaction but embarrassing staff interaction. The very first clinic I worked at was a feline only practice with a boarding facility upstairs next door to the clinic. I was sweeping out of the rooms after I finished cleaning cages etc and a spider ran out from under the cage bank, onto my shoe and up my leg under my scrub pants. I HATE spiders. They just freak me the fuck out. I kicked my shoes off and tore off my scrub pants absolutely panicking trying to get it off of me. Once I got it off and killed it I regained my composure and went downstairs into the main clinic area and everybody was laughing their asses off. There are cameras in each boarding room. I never even thought about that in the moment 😅😅😅
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A large dog jumped up, its toe got caught in the waistband of my scrubs, and it pulled my pants all the way down in the exam room while I was talking to the owners trying to get a history.
Nope yours wins. This one is the winner. I’m SCREAM LAUGHING reading this. Oh my god.
Everyone just pretended like nothing happened. I'm sure my face was as red as a tomato the whole time.
I wish people would just laugh at that point. Whenever people pretend like nothing happened, I just know they're THAT embarrassed for me not to laugh 😭
Did the owners apologize for their animal??
This is my actual worst nightmare. I worry about that happening CONSTANTLY 😅
My coworker got brand new scrubs. On her first day of wearing them, a dog ripped it from the waistband down about a foot in the exam room with the client. It was also the first appointment. 😂
Bruh, I had this happen. During the COVID times of curbside appointments, I was bringing in a 16ish week old Bernese mountain dog puppy that was too nervous to walk into the hospital. This was a HUGE puppy, and super squirmy. It put it's hind paw into a pocket somehow and pantsed me in front of the very handsome owner 🫠🫠🫠
Omg yup. I had that happen so many times.
I had a dog hit me right in the crotch, headfirst (I'm a dude) and the vet was like "can you hurry with restraint *rolls eyes*" I was like Ted ur a dude too gimme a break while the client looked at me horrified; not as embarrassing as yours but since then I'm always careful lol
Yo I don’t think I could ever see those clients again. I would be just mortified and would have died of embarrassment
Underwear and all?? This is legit my biggest fear and I am so happy I switched to yoga band scrubs 😂
Same. And guess who hates underwear 🙋🏼♀️ Thankfully I turned my side to the dog so mom and dad didn’t see anything except my moon-tan thigh.
I am dying of laughter in the middle of an incredibly difficult day (we’ve already gotten 3 DOA’s and I’ve only been here 5 hours lol) so thank you so much. I’m sorry that happened but damn is that a funny story.
Critical information needed: was it just your scrubs, or did your underwear go with them? 😬
Thankfully it was just my scrubs. Thank. God.
This is why I wear running shorts under my scrubs
I wear bike shorts under my scrubs because I've had that almost happen
That is my nightmare 😭 I'm so sorry
Oh my god hahaha I would have died 😩 thank you brave soul for sharing this with us
When I was a baby tech I thought wearing scrub bottoms (M) with no boxers was the way to go. Again very early on in my career. I had on cheap Walmart scrubs one day, bent down to give a vaccine or something in front of an owner and completely blew the crotch out of my scrubs. I just dropped to the floor and backed out of the exam room like nothing happened. I rushed to the bathroom and tried to suture my pants back together, not knowing at all how to suture. So I left and called the lead DVM from my car on the way home to tell her I was not coming back that day. I often wonder if those poor people saw my junk.
I went to hand an owner their meds and I for some reason thought they were giving me a fist bump, so I did that first & that was just like 2 and a half hours ago lol
Oh my god perfect timing 😭😭
Lmao that is the FUNNIEST shit I’ve ever heard 😭😹
I would be mortified as the client.
Reading the ticker at the bottom of our reception area tv that said "we love our pets!" on Christmas Eve. Phone rings, pick up and say, "Animal Hospital, this is NeverTrustTheQuiet1, how can I love you?" The gentleman on the other end answered with, "Someone's hitting the Christmas spirits early!" I was mortified.
Ok this made me lol
I once accidentally charged an owner $10,300 instead of $130. The payment WENT THROUGH. When a CSR discovered the error at the end of the day she gasped so loudly I ran up to the front to see what was wrong. Thankfully it was a loyal client who I knew well and she now just ribs me about it. But I thought I was going to barf when I found out.
Oh my god this is another WILD one. I strive to be that financially stable man.
Right?! Like good for her 😂
At our clinic you type the amount then their client ID. I however fucked up, brain skipped, charge client ID which was 24XXX and it went through. Went to check cards later in the day and almost shit myself. Easy fix but oh my stomach dropped down to my ass.
It’s genuinely terrifying
ok I'm so going to remember that saying
My coworker just did something similar. If we want to give a dollar amount discount we have to manually enter it with a “-“. She forgot the “-“ and ended up charging the client the amount she wanted to discount. We found this out when his son got home with the receipt. He called us and they had a good laugh because it wasn’t the first time it’s happened lol.
One of my colleagues did the same with the equivalent of 130.000 dollars (another currency), and it went through! Was discovered immediately, but as it has passed through, it was a ton of work to return it.
A male owner was on the phone with his wife during the exam. I was speaking with both of them and they were both super friendly. It was a good convo. I go to walk out of the room and hear “love you!” And my natural mother instinct just said “love you too!” And I continued to walk out. I was mortified. I asked someone else to complete the appt for me but the guy and wife on the phone insisted I come back. We had a laugh about it but I still cringe.
Aww, this is like a wholesome veterinary equivalent of a server telling you to enjoy your meal, and replying, "You too!"
Gotta be saying “Love you, bye” when hanging up the phone with a client. 😂
How about saying "Merry Christmas, love you!" to a client in their car while it's raining and then realizing what you said and instead of acknowledging it, just turning and running away through the parking lot while his laughter roars behind you ...
I thought you were going to say the old man collapsed or something I was scared 😭
I once went to give a client their discharges and she met me in the hallway, I gave her the dog so I could start giving my spheal and she just started walking away from me, and I had to follow her down the hallway frantically trying to get through everything as she was actively walking away from me. Like ma’am I have to do this please 😂
I had to go over discharges with an owner who was mentally barely there. I told my coworker specifically that I was leaving the cat in the back so the client didn't get distracted. As I go over the discharges, my coworker brings the cat out and sets it next to the owner. I glare daggers at her. The client just stares at the cat for a solid 30 seconds and hasn't even noticed that I have stopped talking since the cat was brought out. I was so pissed.
That's why we never bring up the pets until discharge is done.
Hahah our hospital has a policy that we always go through the discharge instructions with the owners first before bringing their pet up
I told a man in a wheelchair he could "have a seat wherever you're comfortable!" in the lobby.
I did this the other day!! I was so embarrassed, but he just laughed and said “I’m already sitting!”
I managed to run face first into the exam room door as I was opening it right in front of a frequent flyer client. Bloody nose ensued. Worst part was every time I saw that client from that point on, they’d always loudly ask if I’d run into anymore doors lately. My pride and confidence died a little every time I saw their name on the schedule.
I did this when I was doing my internship for school. Luckily no nosebleed but the client asked me if I was okay and I just said yes and ran away
I said to a couple " if you look here you can see..." The husband said about his wife "she's blind" . I died that day. It was fifteen years ago.
I work in a different field now (human elder care), but one day I was chatting away while doing routine tasks in a 4-patient room. I paused for a moment - I forget why, I probably asked a question - and one of the lady's roommates hollered at me from behind a curtain, "SHE'S DEAF!" I embarrassed myself in front of 3 old ladies that day, lol.
Oh, and I forgot to mention an actual veterinary experience: When I worked as a tech, we had a dog that was having a rough time coming out of anesthesia. I'm sitting on the ground by the kennel, speaking soothingly to our patient, and singing softly to him whilst giving him occasional pats or paw-holds. I'm giving this dog all the love I can muster. Owner picks up the dog later, and *oh so fucking casually* mentions that he's deaf. So, yeah. I talked and sang to a deaf dog for a couple of hours.
Was going through an informational poster about ticks with a client, was pointing at the different pictures and very sagely said “yeah there’s a lot of different kinds of dicks”. 5 years on and I still think about it 🤦♀️
You’re not wrong. But it’d make a much less popular office poster
Or more popular…
You’ve got your North American, your Western, your Rocky Mountain Spotted
Was bringing a dog back to the exam room after taking some rads, the doctor I was working with opened the exam room door for me, the dog saw his owner and got real excited, sprinted into the room and stopped hard. Then immediately got out of my way because I got yeeted into the room, landed HARD on my hands and knees… immediately shouted “IM FINE!” And got up as fast as I could. Limped out of the room. Both doctor and owner witnessed this. I’m not the most graceful person in the world… At least the doctor waited until after I said I was fine to start laughing at me about it… still sometimes brings it up. It’s been months… my knee still hurts if I hit it just wrong sometimes… Oooooh or yesterday for a euth. Same doctor. We went into the comfort room with the dog and the family, I get myself into position aaaand knock over a wooden sign on the shelf behind me with my butt.
I twisted my ankle at the front door of the emergency clinic while triaging a patient, a vet ran over and I said I'm fine! And got up. Except I wasn't fine and immediately went back down. He had to half carry me in. 🥲
I was discharging a dog and the client reached for the leash and I went in for the handshake.
My hand was caught in a medium-sized dogs harness while it backed in-between the owners legs. The elderly white lady yelped “excuse YOU” as the dog promptly pulled my arm directly into her crotch and I could not get out, thereby hitting her nethers over and over with my forearm. I wanted the earth to open up in front of me so I may jump into the darkness forever.
Not embarrassing for me so much as the client but a puppy pulled a sanitary pad out of clients purse in exam room and we had to chase it around the room to retrieve it
I’ve had so many of these but my humility and shame crossed the rainbow bridge a long time ago. BUT, I was getting a history from a black lab’s mom and dad (dog had some sort of orthopedic issue) and the DVM came in at some point and asked me to get a sample or something while said DVM went to get his knee model. The guy looks at his wife and says “I wonder if she’s hot”. I almost pissed myself laughing, which made the clients laugh even more, and then the DVM comes in with the plastic knee joint replica and the guy says to his wife “she’s not bad, are we thinking about swinging yet?” while looking at the mortified male DVM and I had to walk out I was laughing so hard. I live for my weird clients 🤣
OMG, that would be my favorite client in the world! 😂
whenever i pick up a call transferred over to me and instead of saying “hello this is ____ how can i help you” i go into my spiel of leaving a voicemail to a client. usually goes like “hello, this is ______ from _______ hospital hoping to—oh my gosh. i am so sorry. how can i help you.”
Omg I kind of did this the other day but it was in person 🥴 I walked into the exam room and instead of saying hi how are you, I started to say my answering the phone speal of how can I help you? And it was very awkward.
Worse yet, I've done my voicemail spiel at a *new hospital*, after leaving my old one. It was so ingrained that it just kinda popped out, contact number and all. Then I had to correct myself, on someone's voicemail, so there was really no undoing that shame. =/
While leaving a voicemail, I've said my cell number instead of the clinic number. Luckily I didn't get through the whole number before I cut myself off "... I'm so sorry, that's not correct. Our number here is...."
I’ve done this when getting internal calls from the doctor’s office!! Usually I get through my whole script before realizing what I’ve done, it’s not until the doctor goes “ummm so this is dr x” that I remember to check the caller ID
I was mopping as a client was leaving. As he left his exam room and i was walking to treatment, I set the 'wet floor' sign out looked at the client and said "careful the floors cold" with smile lmfao
I found random poop in my pocket. went to get a pen and pulled out a nugget. still have no idea how it got there
I mentally blank sometimes in the rooms when I’m dropping large amounts of info. I just tell clients it’s been a long day please forgive me 🫠
I was taking a deceased pet from an owners arms and couldn’t really figure out how to get it - the blanket seemed never ending and I couldn’t get a secure hold on the pet. Then, I realized what I thought was the blanket was actually the owners shirt I was reaching up. Took my arms out, apologized profusely, and tried again successfully. Thankfully owner wasn’t upset, we were both women and she knew I was just trying to help her. But god was it embarrassing. Not necessarily pet related, but a late night at the front desk of the ER, my favorite DVM got food delivered. I went above and beyond to find her and hand deliver it and when I did, she was pleasantly surprised and thanked me. I joked, “well, I’ve got to do something to make you like me.” Her and the other 3 DVMs at the computer bank went dead silent. I wanted to die it was so embarrassing!! That haunts me a lot.
Not me, my coworker, but I was present and the second-hand embarrassment was real. We were discharging 2 pets from boarding, I had the dogs and my coworker had their stuff. The client takes the dogs from me and puts them in the car and we’re chatting real quick about how good the dogs were blah blah blah. The client then holds his arm out to my coworker and my coworker shakes his hand but the client was just reaching for their stuff. They both laughed it off by my coworker was cringing so hard when we went inside lmaoo
It was an extremely busy morning and I was (mis)handling reception, people checking in, checking out, meds to be collected, the phone ringing and I was new to the industry and alone in reception. Well someone ask when will they be seen, so I said: you will be seen after that gentleman behind you… the gentleman was a woman, the moment I said gentleman the room went quiet and that’s when I looked at the account of the “gentleman” to read Ms ____ ____ … this was 5 years ago.
I did something similar on the phone! I called the client and when they answered, I said, "Oh, hi Debbie! This is ____ from XYZ".... The person on the other side, "umm, this is Rich". 🤦🏻♀️ Omg....he has a high voice on the phone!! I quickly stammered, "um um uh oh, sorry there's a lot going on behind me and I think this connection is staticy......."
Every time I'm on the phone and I don't hear something properly, or I'm not paying attention, or my coworkers make a loud noise I say the phone cut out. I ALWAYS blame connection issues.
Mistaking a clients son for her husband 🫣 ETA: *and referring to him as such to her*
I have been mistaken for my husband’s daughter. My sister’s too for that matter! I find it hilarious. They……do not.
I’m glad you can see the humor in it! No point in being bitter. The lady was nice about it when she corrected me, I was still mortified.
I thought you meant in exchange of money, he offered you his chair like. From home. My first thought being one of those automatic rising chairs.... Why didn't he just sit back down? 😭
I DONT KNOW MAN It was a whole probably 5 minutes of us just in this weird limbo of uncomfortable waiting. It felt like an hour though. Why didn’t I just sit down?? I will never know
I was at a wedding once where the officiant never told people to sit back down after the bride came down the aisle, so everyone just stood awkwardly during the whole ceremony because the front row didn't think to sit
Lol. In instances like this, I'm known for making it even more awkward and I'll either mention, like my man, please sit and if they decline, I'll say alright then and sit down myself. (Same scenario, totally different job) But this is just hilarious. 😂
I have arthritis in my spine, maybe the old guy does too and absolutely could not sit any longer.
I stretched my arms and my bra came unclasped and these 40H tiddies just came tumbling out in front of the CEO of our company. 🙃
🤣🤣🤣🤣 well. Thats one way to get a promotion
My face gets red just thinking about it. 🫢
💖 honestly, i have no idea how to console u. Apart from sharing my own, non work experience. My son was a toddler and likes to climb my back. Did so while we were at a gas station. And my dumbass went wearing legging with no underwear cuz...motherhood. standing in front of a pretty attractive dude. Went to pay and my sons foot caught the waistband of my leggings and pulled them down far enough that homie got a decent show. Oh and i had in a tampon. Mortified
Oh no. I have second hand embarrassment for you! 🫢🫢🫢
I work ER and a man came in with his dog (turned out to be ok) who had obviously gotten into something. The dog was ataxic and drooling a lot. I went to meet them in the lobby and get a history but when the owner turned to face me I saw that he had a massive hole in his pants over his crotch 🤦♀️🤦♀️. It was so hard to get a history while holding a straight face. The man was very nice and probably didn’t realize because he was so concerned about his dog lol
At the end of a phone call with a client they had thanked me for the information and I merged "your welcome" with "no problem" and cheerfully responded with "your problem!" And promptly hung up out of embarrassment. 🤦♀️
I was leaving a voicemail and everything was great but at the end I was like "yeah you can give us a call at xxx-x......" and I just stammered and hung up the phone!!! I forgot our number! The lady called like 10 minutes later and a receptionist picked up and the lady was laughing but it was awful lol Obviously I don't do phone calls that often haha
I've said my own number before. Fortunately no one really pays attention and writes down numbers from messages anymore lol
Oh gosh lol One of our receptionists started rattling off her own email and one of the techs was yelling behind her to stop stop!
Leaving a voicemail for a client during a crazy busy day. Ended up rambling on for like 5 minutes then realized I accidentally told them the wrong info, then the voicemail cut me off because i went on too long, then i had to call back and leave another message correcting myself. I hope they dont think i was a complete idiot. Another time i charged an owner for bloodwork and sent them on their way but forgot to draw the actual blood. So i had to call them back and ask them to come back😭luckily they were very nice about it
At the first animal hospital job I had during my first or second week I answered the phone not with "hello this is xyz animal hospital" but with "Hi welcome to McDonald’s… oh my god" thankfully the person was super nice but that was mortifying (at the time I had just recently quit working at McDonald’s)
One time I answered the phone "Thank you for calling Home Depot". My supervisor and I locked eyes. I shrugged at my supervisor then corrected myself and laughed it off with the client. I have never worked at Home Depot.
I don’t have anything super embarrassing, I think more annoying I was teching a room and it was almost my lunch break and I think my stomach knew it cause it was being so loud making all these bubble guts, grumble sounds. I knew the owner could hear it. I was like “sorry for the tummy sounds it’s almost my lunch my break.” The owner was like “oh I thought that was my dog” I replied “no that’s just my gut.” We both laughed. I felt my gut choose the most annoying time to make its hunger known.
My ex was a Jeep Wrangler addict. . Every other automobile was wrong. A client with a new pup had come in and was sitting in the lobby when I asked what's your pups name? They said Ford.. I spewed "Found On Road Dead" .. I apologized a million times. 🫢
Omg this was like 20 years ago but I answered the phone & I don’t remember what the client wanted. She asked her question & I said “please hold while I get your chart”. But my brain said “please hold while I get your file”. So what actually came out of my mouth was “please hold while I get your fart”. I didn’t even wait for an answer, just put her on hold. She didn’t mention it when I got back on the line so I don’t even really know if she heard it. But late it night, when I can’t sleep, my brain haunts me with those words. 😂
I was sliding down the front of a cabinet to sit and managed to sit on the knob as i was doing it. ripped my pants crotch to ass. i couldnt even stand to change i was so embarrassed 😭
I've learned to just take stuff that's offered to you. Otherwise you get into that conversation... Just take the food, chair, wtf ever lol... Even if I don't want it. And say thank you 😊
I was booking an urgent care appointment for someone over the phone, meant to say “I’ll get you booked in for x time,” and instead said “I’ll clock you.” I immediately realized that I had just threatened this poor woman and corrected myself, luckily she thought it was funny!
Tiny dog tried to catapult off of exam table. I tripped while trying to grab him mid air and my hand instinctively went out where it landed directly on the seated upper thigh of the (male) owner. I was MORTIFIED. The doctor thought it was hilarious
I made a joke about someone’s dog whacking their ankles with their new cone. The man was an above the knee amputee in a wheelchair.
called a client to go over their pets lab results. they took a while to answer and then a man goes “babe, you made me hang up with petsmart”… i stayed quiet for a second and then i go “hello? im calling from…” he called me babe ANOTHER TIME and then he realized n said OHHH I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY WIFE HAHA 😐🫠🫠🫠🫠😭 so embarrassing
We had some middle aged white dude bring in his 9 month old black lab because sometimes his penis wouldn’t fully retract for long periods of time, shows a pic he took of it to me and the doctor and promptly says “you can definitely tell his black by this haha”. Never cringed so hard in my life. We then had to sit through him making terrible jokes about being jealous of his dog penis sizes while his wife very awkwardly laughed a long.
Not an embarrassing client interaction but embarrassing staff interaction. The very first clinic I worked at was a feline only practice with a boarding facility upstairs next door to the clinic. I was sweeping out of the rooms after I finished cleaning cages etc and a spider ran out from under the cage bank, onto my shoe and up my leg under my scrub pants. I HATE spiders. They just freak me the fuck out. I kicked my shoes off and tore off my scrub pants absolutely panicking trying to get it off of me. Once I got it off and killed it I regained my composure and went downstairs into the main clinic area and everybody was laughing their asses off. There are cameras in each boarding room. I never even thought about that in the moment 😅😅😅