Funny store to share with all of you from tonight, since I know you can appreciate this.
I decided to buy a new cell phone, my closest store that carried the color/model that I wanted was about 40 minutes away so I drove out there.
Got to the store, sales rep helped me pick out my phone and set up my plan. She had just finished activating the phone and asked if she could make a call on it to test it, I said okay. Suddenly the phone starts ringing, someone was calling me (guess it works!). She showed me the number and I realized it was my boss. It was almost 7pm for me, calculating in my head where he is at right now it was almost 9pm for him. This can't be good.
He had just landed a bit earlier, one of the other executives he was with had a death in the family (his mom!) while they were on the flight.
He needed an emergency flight home asap and couldn't get ahold of his own admin so my boss volunteered me.
I hung up with him and called my travel department (on my other cell phone) while my sales girl was trying to ring me up for my purchase and show me accessories for my new phone. There are no red-eye flights where he needed to go so I changed his ticket over to the first flight out tomorrow morning and asked her to e-mail me the confirmation. While she was finishing up his itinerary, I called my boss back on the new phone.
Told him what the options were, which he didn't like. He wanted me to go online and check for a red-eye or something earlier. I asked the sales rep if I could use her terminal to go online and check flight options.
So now I'm on both cell phones (travel department & my boss), using a computer in a retail store and trying to give my sales rep what she needed to ring me up.
Being that this phone is brand new, the battery had no charge so it was almost dead. My boss finally put the guy on the phone who all of this is for, he said he was fine with the first flight I had suggested. Gave the green light to the travel department and hung up with them. My new phone died at that moment so I called my boss back on the other cell, told them that I would drive back to the office so I could check him in for the flight and fax his boarding pass to the hotel. When I hung up with them, the sales girl asked me, "Does he call at all hours?" I answered, "Not usually."
Got to the office about 8:15pm and had just finished checking him in and printing the boarding pass when my boss called again (thankfully I'd managed to charge it a little in the car ride). Since I was at the office, he wanted me to fax him something out of his e-mail.
I felt like this could have been a scene in a movie, it was so crazy. Of all the nights I decide to go out, that would have to be the night that my boss needs me.
