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TIFU by getting fired because I used a personal device as a sales pitch.

So this actually happened a few months ago, but the story just got brought up again and I wanted to share it with you all.

I (26m) used to work at a major retail mobile phone network provider. I was a sales rep and we were having a friendly competition to sell air pods with iPhone upgrades.

This older couple, maybe late 40's to mid 50's come in and they are looking to upgrade their iPhones. I walk through the newest iPhone models and discuss storage and all the works.

After picking out the iPhones I help them with the upgrade and transfer, at this point the wife seemed to be antsy to leave and the husband was kind of a stonewall. Usually during the transfer process is where I try to pitch the air pods but the wife cut me off on any pitch before I could get past any sort of "would you be interested in".

As the phones finish updating the husband asks something along the lines of "do you recommend any headphones?"

Naturally I am excited by this perfectly tee'd up upsell. I mention the air pods, their noise cancelling, other features, yadda yadda.

The husband seems a bit resistant to them saying something about how they are too complicated.

NAY NAY GOOD SIR. IN FACT I CAN DEMONSTRATE THEIR EASE OF USE RIGHT NOW.

At this time the husband's phone was done updating and so I pull out my own air pods and ask if I can show him how to set them up and use them so he can decide. He happily agrees and the wife doesn't seem too pleased but we carry on.

I get to the part of syncing my air pods to his phone and in big bold letters on the brand new extra large iPhone screen.

"Cum Queen's" Airpods is displayed. I freeze and stammer a little and the husband, to my horror leans in closer to read what it says.

He seems to go through a YouTube buffer screen as he mutters "Cum Queen?" And after a short pause actually starts laughing really loud and hard and I sigh in relief.

That was until his wife leaned over his shoulder and read the screen and gasped. She started hollering and talking about unprofessionalism (which, to be fair, yeah.) Eventually my manager walks over due to the commotion and she starts tearing into him about me and pointing to the phone still proudly saying "Cum Queen's Air Pods".

My manager's eyes widened and I know he bit back a shit eating grin when he read the screen. He shoo'd me off and I went to the back office and started cackling so hard I couldn't breath because of how ridiculous the entire situation was.

A few weeks later I got some sort of write up from corporate because the lady called to complain and I was already on thin ice due to attendance write ups (I was on my way out the door anyway since I was waiting to hear back about an offer for my long term career) so I was promptly fired due to write ups accruing.

TL;DR: I got fired after an old lady reported me to corporate for using my Airpods named Cum Queen's Airpods on her husband's phone.

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