SaaSam

Account Executive

Acclaimed Answer

Craziest sign off I've ever had (Earthquake)

I don't know if I'll ever top this one.

Was in the middle of a kickoff call with a new client that I closed last week. Everything going smoothly nothing out of the ordinary when all of a sudden I feel dizzy, like the room is moving. So, I sit up a little bit, take a deep breath and realize the room literally is moving, a lot.

Earthquake.

So naturally I inturrupt our CSM in the middle of her speech with, "hey guys, I'm sorry but I have to go. We're having an earthquake. Please continue without me." Word for word no shit exactly what I said.

Didn't realize I sounded like a boss until I get the slack notification that our CSM announced to the whole company that I was actively in the middle of an earthquake and sounded calmer than if I was excusing myself to use the bathroom.

7.6 earthquake. Lost power for a bit but I'm back up and running. It was actually kind of ... totally had another small one and had to leave my house again in the middle of posting this... actually kind of cool, feels like walking on a boat with some decent waves under you.

Let's hear them, craziest reason to jump off of a zoom meeting early... GO

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antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

10

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Nothing to that magnitude, that's for sure. Mine was just simply "My wife is about to go to the hospital, I need to go" Then 12 hours later, my second son was born.

GALACTIC

Politicker

2

Account Executive

Timeline just advanced with key account, need to prepare deliverables.

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

2

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Lmao!! That is great

jefe

Arsonist

1

🍁

I love what you did there with 'magnitude'

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

1

Bravado's Resident Asshole

Dad jokes come easy, and that was a layup.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

9

🦊

Uh...that's not a small earthquake boo. I'm glad you are ok!

SaaSam

Politicker

3

Account Executive

Thanks! Yeah it didn't feel too small. My place is fine but I guess there's quite a bit of damage elsewhere. My phone is going nuts with people sending pics and vids of resorts that got it pretty rough.

The second little bit wasn't as bad as the first. I wasn't entirely sure if I was just imagining things until I noticed my ceiling fan swinging.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

5

🦊

Were you in Mexico?

SaaSam

Politicker

1

Account Executive

Yes ma'am, I didn't know this until my wife said something but apparently there's an earthquake somewhere in Mexico on Sep 19 every year

Wellss

Tycoon

6

Channel sales

Welp, compared to your story I'm going to sound like a big ol wimp in mine. Was on an internal meeting last week & stopped mid sentence because I saw a huuuuge spider at the other end of my office. I told them I'd be right back because I had to kill said spider but didn't rejoin the meeting for like 10 minutes because I couldn't catch the damn thing lol

SaaSam

Politicker

1

Account Executive

Hahaha I've had something similar but it was, "I need to go kill a spider for my wife" She's petrified of spiders.

champchamp

Arsonist

4

Certified Savage

Where in Mexico are you? I’m in Mexico City and was just finishing a meeting when it happened and had to run like a mad man haha

SaaSam

Politicker

1

Account Executive

Puerto Vallarta. I don't think we've ever had an earthquake this bad before. As I look on social media I'm realizing how good I had it that all we lost was power. There's a decent amount of condos falling apart around the bay

Sunbunny31

Politicker

2

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

7.6 is large. Very large. The biggest one I've been through is the 1989 Loma Prieta, and that was a 7.1.

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

3

Sales Rep

Nothing crazy at all, if not embarrassing for me.

Probably having 5 missed calls, hop off thinking it’s an emergency, but someone in my family that just wanted to say hi

SaaSam

Politicker

3

Account Executive

Love it! Sounds like my family

Sunbunny31

Politicker

3

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

7.6 is a solid quake!

I had that happen to a prospect in LA. We were chatting, he got pretty quiet, then blurted out, sorry, I'm getting under my desk, we're having an earthquake. He sounded rattled (pun intended).

My personal story was that I was on the phone with a prospect, looking out over my back yard, saw branches on an oak toward the back of the property start shuddering, first thought it was wind or a squirrel jumping around, but no, the tree was falling! No damage, but I explained to the prospect why I suddenly was quiet, and since our conversation was wrapping up anyway, I had to jump.

CuriousFox

WR Officer

5

🦊

I haven't had an earthquake experience like this. I have however been on the phone with a prospect when they actually asked me about the tornado sirens going off in my background. I told them I looked outside and didn't see it so we were good to continue. 🤣

Sunbunny31

Politicker

2

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Not a fan of tornados, and the siren would make my hair stand on end!

SaaSam

Politicker

2

Account Executive

Yeah it felt solid! There is a condo like 2 blocks from my house. You could see the water from the pool on the roof sloshing off the side of the building. That building is now leading slightly to the east.

alexander03

Personal Narrative

3

Consultant - CRM Implementation & Sales Planning

Yeah… 7.6 is a serious quake. Good on you for managing it and not freaking out. My first quake was a 6.6 on the 4th floor of a building in New Taipei City. Great memory. I literally ran into the streets like a child and the old ladies laughed at me. I was advised to stay under the supports when it’s all big buildings so the top doesn’t hit you with crumbles.

jefe

Arsonist

3

🍁

Nothing too crazy on my end, just fire alarm during a demo so I unplugged my laptop and walked into the copy/prayer room and kept going until they stopped.

@SaaSamI will say that is badass.

playerone

Politicker

2

Regional Account Executive

My husky shit while the roomba was on

SaaSam

Politicker

1

Account Executive

Hahahaha this one is by far my favorite

playerone

Politicker

0

Regional Account Executive

It wasn’t mine lol

jefe

Arsonist

1

🍁

We have 3 dogs and this is why I won't get a roomba. Love the idea but it happened to the brother of my wife's friend.

Jr7

Politicker

2

AM

oh, god, luckily you're fine, what a scare!

Mobi85

Politicker

1

Regional Sales Manager

Nothing as wild as that, did have a tornado drop down about 1.5 miles from my office but wasn’t on a call or anything. I just hopped in my truck and drove my ass in the other direction until we got the all clear. Tornado never even came close and was actually moving away from us but still.

StringerBell

Politicker

1

Account Executive

I once had to sign off from an intro call because the building was on fire. Wasn't even a bs fire, I had to walk through black smoke in the staircase. Luckily I was on the 1st floor.

Pachacuti

Politicker

1

They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

nice.

blondeenigma

Opinionated

1

AE

prospect was late for a 9am meeting and the excuse was “sorry, my alpaca just gave birth”

sketchysales

Politicker

1

Sales Manager

🤣🤣🤣🤣 that is a solid excuse there.

JustGonnaSendIt

Politicker

1

Burn Towns, Get Money

I was once in a meeting on the 8th floor of a building in Toronto. 20 minutes in, the fire alarm goes off.

Typically we ignore such things as a drill and continue our meeting. Then one of the Exec's EA's steps in, looking a bit frazzled, and says it's not a drill and we need to get out now.

Queue 8 stories of stairs headed down as firefighters are rushing up past you.

Yeah, we rescheduled for tomorrow after that and went and got beers.

DungeonsNDemos

Big Shot

0

Rolling 20's all day

Glad to hear that you're ok. That would be scary!
I have nothing close to this story in terms of signoffs

ThatNewAE

Big Shot

0

Account Executive - Mid enterprise

I would have ran away, no word. Bye folks, see you next life. That's it.

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