A salesman that we have been dealing with for longer than I have been here lost his father on Friday.. Boss asks me to send an arrangement. I ask when and where and he gives me a funeral home name and the town that the funeral home is in. There is a home with that name the next town over but none of their obits have the same last name as the salesman, and when I google the salesman's last name I can't find an obit. It's not unheard of that they may have different last names, but I don't know if I'm late or early or if I have the right place unless I know more. I ask if boss knows the fathers name, no, when are the services, Friday. Then he says "Did you call the funeral home?" Did I call and say "I need to send flowers for a funeral, I don't know the guy's name or the day of the services or if I even have the right funeral home, when should I send them?" No, no I did not. Now that I know it's Friday I can still order things tomorrow, and will keep checking the website for a listing, but ....
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Date: 2021-07-20 04:13 pm (UTC)A salesman that we have been dealing with for longer than I have been here lost his father on Friday.. Boss asks me to send an arrangement. I ask when and where and he gives me a funeral home name and the town that the funeral home is in. There is a home with that name the next town over but none of their obits have the same last name as the salesman, and when I google the salesman's last name I can't find an obit. It's not unheard of that they may have different last names, but I don't know if I'm late or early or if I have the right place unless I know more.
I ask if boss knows the fathers name, no, when are the services, Friday. Then he says "Did you call the funeral home?"
Did I call and say "I need to send flowers for a funeral, I don't know the guy's name or the day of the services or if I even have the right funeral home, when should I send them?" No, no I did not.
Now that I know it's Friday I can still order things tomorrow, and will keep checking the website for a listing, but ....
Yes *headdesk*