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By jkmartinjk - 28/11/2012 04:58 - Canada - Chilliwack

Today, on an important call with a potential employer, he began to speak quieter and quieter until I couldn't hear him at all. When I finally hung up after waiting for 5 minutes, I realized that I had been pressing down on the volume button. FML

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Wednesday 28 November 2012 8:52

While you do deserve this one, you can always call back and say it was a bad connection and you couldn't hear them. Not completely lying anyway.

Kallian_fml 21

Wednesday 28 November 2012 8:52

Oh dear. I hope he hung up before you started yelling "Hello? HELLO?" into the phone.

Comments

pickles1994 18

Wednesday 28 November 2012 11:50

36- He's 13, kids at that age don't need a phone, he's actually right "no point"

done_dreaming 4

Wednesday 28 November 2012 12:15

If you didn't realize you were pressing the volume down button you probably weren't getting a job that included a phone interview.

sniken 14

Wednesday 28 November 2012 12:21

How can you not hear the sound the phone makes when you turn the volume up/down? Never tried a phone that doesn't notify with a sound click or similar.

HortonThelephant 15

Wednesday 28 November 2012 12:23

Dumb ass... I wouldn't hire anyone that is so foreign to technology, that it takes them the better part of 15 minutes to realize they are inadvertently tapping the down button on the volume control. Tough break OP. I really do hope you called them back with a great excuse for hanging up on them.