I had the cold sweats bad the other day fearing for my life in a meeting...anyone else any funny experiences
What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s happened to you while meeting with a client?
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I almost pooped myself when a demo ran 20 minutes long. The client kept asking questions and my stomach was rumbling. I didn’t go to the bathroom before because I figured it be a cut and dry typical demo
Did u get the sale tho?
We closed a very large deal and setup a great relationship moving forward. I almost bombed in my pants. But we didn’t bomb the deal!
Man that’s the worst , rumbling stomach , can’t fart, sweats , clinching cheeks for dear life haha
Have def had this before myself and it is quite an uncomfortable feeling trying to talk and not have your insides burst.
Me too. IBS is a BITCH
A classic :D
This is very common I think. The pressure starts to build the moment you join the call.
loved the outcome
At an event trying to pitch a product talking to this rocket and I got a boner
Well, in your defense, she had a finger up your *ss.
The only thing pitched was a tent.
She didn’t buy. I did however get her contact info. Deal is not dead
attaboy
Nothing like having to find a way to push it down covertly in the middle of a room
Go on….
Why hide it? I usually line up a dozen African parrots side by side and use it to start conversations.
Literally had a similar experience. When i worked in fashion I met with with this guy who ran a pretty big brand in the Netherlands, all good nothing to see or worry about there. Next thing, oh i want to introduce you to my daughter because she's also starting a brand. Turns out she's an international model for several major brands. I liked to think i was pretty smooth but it became apparently very quickly that I'm awkward AF when caught by surprise lol. Things took a further turn when she insisted that she would give me a drive back to the airport, rather than getting a taxi. So i sat for an hour in this girls car, she's driving me and I'm trying to be subtle as well as think of things to say without being a complete nonce. I didn't close anything that day.
Last summer, during a scorching heat wave (I don't have AC), I was working without my shirt. Sweating buckets.
Then, I joined a Zoom call with my shirt off.
Honestly, I think it helped, brought some levity.
Then, I joined a Zoom call with my shirt off.
Honestly, I think it helped, brought some levity.
Haha welcome to the gun show
More the like the Gut show
Username checks out.
Sharing screen, forgot to mute slack notifications, received a slack from someone on my team on the call calling the prospect clueless.
I imagine that went over well, how did the rest of Conversation go
we all pretended it didn't happen ha - but i learned a good lesson in muting slack notifications during a zoom
haha when I was onboarding at a previous company I was watching old demo recordings and there was one where the CEO asked the prospect the share his screen to better understand the challenges with his current workflow. The prospect was caught off guard and when he flipped to his screen you could see his slack message with his colleague on the call saying, "man this guy is such a dick"
Hahaha yes!
One went to a meeting with 6 senior execs (could all potentially be buyers in their own right)
My CEO was present, but just not very much a talker and awkward as fuck
It was at their office and they had provided sandwiches.
As the prospect was talking, I took a mammoth bite, he caught me out with a question - I tried answering with a full mouth.
Proceed - a minute choking and coughing fit, which felt like a fucking hour.
What did my CEO do? Just stare at me
Brilliant!! Didn’t get the deal
My CEO was present, but just not very much a talker and awkward as fuck
It was at their office and they had provided sandwiches.
As the prospect was talking, I took a mammoth bite, he caught me out with a question - I tried answering with a full mouth.
Proceed - a minute choking and coughing fit, which felt like a fucking hour.
What did my CEO do? Just stare at me
Brilliant!! Didn’t get the deal
Did the food come out in your coughing fit land on the desk or something ?! Thanks CEO for nothing once again lol
Nah bro just stayed fucking lodged in my throat lol
It was my second week with the company and my manager thought it would be fun to throw me to the sharks. She had me lead a demo call all on my own & I couldn't answer about half the questions the prospect had. After the third "I'm not sure let me check and get back to you", they responded with, "you really don't know the answers to any of these questions????"
Embarrassing to say the least & I did a lot of studying after that
Embarrassing to say the least & I did a lot of studying after that
Don’t you hate that . I’ve had similar experiences when starting at different companies. Just wanna slap ur boss
Embarrassing for the prospect;
We were in a zoom meeting. I asked him. To share his screen and type in ‘youTUBE’ into his browser. Sure enough by default youPORN popped up as a suggested site and he immediately started panicking. It was golden. Probably from his prior browsing history.
We were in a zoom meeting. I asked him. To share his screen and type in ‘youTUBE’ into his browser. Sure enough by default youPORN popped up as a suggested site and he immediately started panicking. It was golden. Probably from his prior browsing history.
Hahaha when I was in college I did installs for Best Buy and connecting to a network with customer on TV , someone’s Wi-Fi popped up BigBlackDick , and had a good laugh with them lol
My cup of coffee disintegrated in my hands and the coffee spilled on my lap...
You sue McDonalds ? Haha
I wish.. this was in a more private setting, in Riyadh Saudi Arabia of all places :D spent the rest of the night covering my lap with my jacket ...
I had an in person presentation once where I was running behind and totally forgot to put on a belt before I left.
You walk in all Gangsta holding ur khakis up haha
Nothing yet.. Now feels like I am too boring or too cautious.
It’s coming just wait!
Ok not quite in a client meeting, but post meeting I saw him hooking up with a woman at a bar...who was not his wife. He saw me see him. The look on his face was pure gold.
Hahaha guess he’s signing a blank check on that deal !
I farted just loud enough for us to both hear it
You look around and smell test
Had slack up in one call. Thought I had stopped sharing the screen and coworkers started talking shit that the client could see. Oops.
sweaty palms during on-site visits.. Happens to me everytime and I dread the handshake at the bookends of each meeting
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