She hadn\'t looked like trouble
- I was covering reception, it was my first day temping on the smart reception of an advertising agency near Covent Garden. The Owner of the company had already made it quite obvious she didn't think I was up to the job. I had a two hour hand-over, ...
How to Impress Clients
- Back when I was a junior receptionist in my first real job I was working for a major web design company that had a lot of cool high profile clients. Well... one day a very important client walked in for a meeting and noticed a lovely plant we...
Stuck in her Room
-I work on reception in a 5 star London hotel. One evening I took an internal call from one of our single guest rooms. The lady was English and well-spoken, but appeared to be having a panic attack. She said she couldn’t get out of her room ...
Receptionist send wrong guy on Live TV
- There can’t be many receptionists out there who can honestly put their hand up and say they’ve never put through a wrong call, or sent people to the wrong meeting rooms. Even robot receptionists are almost guaranteed to get it wrong...
I was concerned
- I supervise a team of receptionists who usually have a lot to say for themselves, but recently things changed. I was passing by this particular reception which is on the ground floor and noticed two of my team standing motionless looking dumbstruck, ...
The Date
- I read about your previous anecdotes and thought I’d let you know about something which happened at a Hotel I was a receptionist for in New York. I once received some flowers on Valentines day from one...
I once worked
- I was once working on a reception desk where my boss thought he was so funny, he was constantly cornering you to retell a really old joke and everyone would have to laugh otherwise he got moody. It was a PR agency, and most of ...
I was Temping Once
- I was temping once where there was a receptionist I had to work with who was paranoid about people moving her things, and she was sure the place was infested with mice, the fact that no one saw them didn’t seem to put her off. Then when one ...
A New Boy on Reception
- The receptionist I usually work with was going on maternity leave. She was generally quite lazy, really not flexible, and not really into the whole receptionist buzz, so I was looking forward to seeing who they’d get to replace her for a few ...
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