Got Off on the Wrong Foot
Part of my job is processing new employees. We had this one new guy that just so happened to be in a wheelchair. He came in early on his first day, and I helped him with some paperwork. Then, he came back to my office in the afternoon and said, “I think I got off on the wrong foot with you.”
Thinking that he was making a self-deprecating joke to kind of address the fact that he was in a wheelchair, I laughed and said “Good one!” He just looked at me, blank-faced, and said, “What do you mean?”
The dude really thought he had done something to make me angry earlier and was trying to apologize! I did my best to awkwardly back-pedal by saying, “That’s funny you think I was mad. I wasn’t at all!” He was still looking at me funny when he left the office.
I literally spent a week cringing every time the phone rang because I was sure I was getting called into HR. Story credit: Reddit / gogogidget