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TIFU with a custom ringtone at work

First, I need you to know that I'm hard of hearing, this becomes part of the story later, I wear hearing aids that are Bluetooth enabled, and I hook up my work phone to my hearing aids. As my work phone is a Samsung phone it came with the default, kind of lame, Samsung ringtone. I decided I didn't like that, and changed it to jigsaw's voice saying ' I want to play a game".

I then set up the work phone to connect to my Bluetooth hearing aid so I could hear the phone in my hearing aids, as I use it for GPS, and we chat each other as I work remotely, I'm a copier technician so we do need this. I figured nobody will hear the ringtone because it's just going to play in my hearing aids. I bet you can see where this is going can't you? So I'm at work installing a copier on site, the copy was installed, the training was done, it was just one more person that had to have the drivers for the copier installed on them.

They were in the conference room where everybody was getting ready for a meeting and everybody in the company happened to be there. My phone rang off, and everybody's head turned around to look at me. I couldn't figure out why I figured only I'm hearing jigsaw saying I want to play a game. That wasn't true, apparently the ringtone please in my hearing aids as well as the phone speaker and because I'm hard of hearing I have it turned up all the way. So everybody in the company got to hear my warped little ring tone.

It gets better though, I'm actually an apprentice which means whenever I go on site I have a senior technician with me, he flat out told me to change that ringtone as everybody could hear that ringtone and it was not appropriate for work. I did change it. So that's my story of how my warp sense of humor caused a screw up at work!

TL:DR: My warped ring tone was heard by everyone

@MODS Can we add in to the rules that a post can start with T. I. F. U as well? This reddit treats it as not the same as "TIFU" on the S object line.

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