This hotel I worked at a while back, we had a really busy night during a holiday. These people at a table wanted their cake boxed so they could bring it home, and one coworker was responsible for getting it done. Our boss told us not too long after that the people decided against the boxing and they left. But the girl who was gonna do it didn’t get the message I guess. She asked me which table it was, and I was rushing with my own work myself. I quickly told her to nevermind the boxing. Yeah I could have worded it better and explain that they didn’t want to bring their cake home after all. But I was so busy, I just said that and went on with my stuff. I didn’t have time for this, and I guess I sounded rude, but I really wasn’t trying to be. Basically I wanted to say it’s okay don’t worry about it, but that didn’t quite work out.
Basically, she thought I was telling her to fuck off.
I went to talk to her later, completely oblivious that I offended her. I was asking for help with something and she totally blew me off. I swear, I was SO confused at first. I just walked off going, okaayy…but I quickly realized what happened, since I did know that my tone of voice sounded ruse when I said nevermind, but that was because of stress and being in a hurry. We made up pretty quickly, but I swear she was pissed off at the time. We didn’t actually speak of this at all after though. But we got along good anyways, so that’s always cool.