I Just Wanted Tickets...
I am a sucker for radio contests. I have incredible luck. On my way to work one morning, a radio had announced that they were giving away tickets to see Dave Matthews Band. I wanted the tickets and I would be willing to do anything to get them. The radio station asked to bear wittness to crazy pranks, stunts, etc... Here was my idea.
My boss was just returning from China that morning. She and I were very close, the number one team in our division. I had decided that no matter what I did, I would be able to talk my way out of trouble.
I called the radio station and asked if they would like to listen to me make my boss cry. They were all for it. I called my boss as they listened in.
Me: Hey, Tiff! How was the flight.
Her: Well, so many things went wrong. I ran out of my pills (she is TERRIFIED of flying), they lost my luggage, I almost missed my flight from ShenZhen, and I cried all during the trip because I could not sleep through the flight (again, TERRIFIED of flying... she normally sleeps the whole flight).
Me: Oh my goodness! Are you ok?
Her: Sure. What do you need?
Me: Well, I know that we are in the middle of the busy season, but I just needed to tell you something...
Her: What??? (beginning to sniffle) Lea, what is going on...?
Me: Tiff, I need to quit. I cannot do this anymore. Working with you has been great, but I just cannot handle the ups and downs... the departmental drama. It is just too much.
Her: (Audibly crying) What can I do to make you stay? I cannot lose you right now. You know that I cannot get anyone of your caliber in the job on such short notice. We are getting ready to allocate billions of dollars in merchandise and I cannot do it alone. I need you.
Me: Tiff, I can't.
Her: PLEASE!!! (sobbing like a baby) Two weeks is not enough time to get everything done... can you at least give me a month?
Me: I am not putting in a notice. I am not coming back to the office.
Tiff: I cannot believe this!!! What am I supposed to do? How am I going to tell Eddie (our VP)? Oh my God!!!! This cannot be happening.
(the phone goes dead)
Well, the radio guys thought this was great and they could not believe that I would do that to her. I won the tickets. Now I just had to worry about getting Tiffany to forget what I did.
I called Tiff back. She did not answer the call. I called the VP on his cell. After telling him what happened, he promised me that he would not take her call until I called him back to tell him that I had talked to her about why I did that.
I tried to call her again....
Her: (still crying) I do not want to talk to you...
Me: Tiff, I need you to listen to me. I am not quitting.
Her: What the F*CK are you talking about?!?!?!? You just quit.
Me: Ok, ok... you are going to hate me. I wanted to win tickets to see DMB. The contest was crazy stunts, pranks, etc... I told them that I would make you cry on air...
Her: You are such a bitch. I cannot believe you would do that knowing that I just landed this morning from China. I just cannot believe you would do something like this to me.
Me: Tiff, I did not mean any harm. If it makes you feel any better, I won...
Her: F*ck off. You're fired! You can get your stuff tomorrow.
(she hangs up on me again)
I call the VP, tell him that I was fired, and exactly what she said. He said that he would talk to her and get things straightened out. He did not want to lose me.
Twenty minutes later, now I am the one crying, Tiff calls me. She ultimately forgave me and took me back. I apologized. She only accepted my apology on one condition. I had to take her to the concert.
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Whew! I thought for a moment there would be an unhappy ending. I'm glad it ended well. Most people would have been fired for what you did, however.