I just walked back into my building from lunch and....the CEO gets in the elevator with me. He goes "so where do you work?" And I'm in the middle of trying to figure out if it's him (because he seemed too short) and his question threw me off (instead of asking "who" do I work for, plus we have another company one of the floors in our building) and I go "Fujitsu...." and then start saying my division.
Guess what. I don't work for Fujitsu. Nor have I ever worked for them.
I immediatly catch myself and say "Gosh, I mean (insert name of company)" and he just laughs and then looks at my name badge to see my name and then goes "so whats up with Fujitsu" and I'm pretty sure I might get fired.
Also, my boss asked me to ask the EA to our president to schedule some meetings, which my guy told me she was going to get pissy about (just based on her reaction to me during our introduction - which was fine, but she's sort of that pissy kind of person until she decides she likes you)
She ignored my email for over a week and this morning sent a response that was a politly worded "fuck off".
LOL, where did you come up with Fujitsu? That's pretty funny. Well, it will be funny in about 10 years. Right now, lots of hair pats and reassurances that the CEO won't remember this moment. Or he'll give you a raise because he's concerned you're about to leave for Fujitsu.
LOL, where did you come up with Fujitsu? That's pretty funny. Well, it will be funny in about 10 years. Right now, lots of hair pats and reassurances that the CEO won't remember this moment. Or he'll give you a raise because he's concerned you're about to leave for Fujitsu.
The one and only bright spot is that it was a memorable first impression. Good or bad, it was memorable. Ugh.
Now I have to tell my boss, who will NEVER LET ME LIVE THIS DOWN.
LOL, where did you come up with Fujitsu? That's pretty funny. Well, it will be funny in about 10 years. Right now, lots of hair pats and reassurances that the CEO won't remember this moment. Or he'll give you a raise because he's concerned you're about to leave for Fujitsu.
The one and only bright spot is that it was a memorable first impression. Good or bad, it was memorable. Ugh.
Now I have to tell my boss, who will NEVER LET ME LIVE THIS DOWN.
LOL, he isn't going to fire you. I am sure they have already invested too much in you. Your boss has a prior relationship with you. The CEO does not care enough about this to fire you. Just say you were so awed and nervous to be around him IF it ever comes up, and he will be flattered. I promise. This isn't fireable.
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Now THIS makes me feel better!!!
My response to him when he said "Where did you get Fujitsu from" was something along the lines of "I used to manage them in a different life and they start with the same initial..."
So to clarify, I don't really think I'm going to get fired people, but I really do just want to die over this.
Also, I'm irritated about the fact my boss didn't warn me I would be sitting in a stones throw proximity from our CEO. Clearly I need a heads up about this things.
I feel your pain. I had an almost identical situation about 5 years ago. I felt like an idiot for weeks. I am sure this is not the first time this has happened to him.
Seriously, if the culture at your company is so effed up to get angry about this, I wouldn't want to work there.
We see our CEO around and he would laugh it off. It would be embarrassing but I'm sure I've seen the president lean over to ask his EA my name before and the CEO has asked me no less than 7 times where I'm from. The first time I didn't know if he meant where I live or what company I worked for before I started here. Lol.
No one was angry. He did laugh at me.
I've worked here a total of 10 days. We are a $25B company. So I'm a little on edge about the way things work around here and making a good first impression.
If this happen at my old company (also large) I would have been OH WELL, I've worked here for 10 years and kickass.