#11

I was the subject of a tannoy announcement when I got lost in M&S. They called my mum to the Information Desk

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#12

And this happened just last week.

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#13

In an airport once, was a bit casual getting to a gate.

Used to work on the customer service desk in Safeway. The tannoy went through the main switchboard phone and one evening I’d put someone on hold then went back to speak to them but somehow pressed the tannoy button instead and was stood there for about twenty seconds shouting ‘hello, HELLO? Are you there?!’ before I realised :joy::joy::joy:

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#14

jesus christ

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#15

At the bowling alley I used to work at I forced through a change to tannoy script from “This is a staff announcement…” to “This is a team announcement…” because it was more personable and we were all part of a team at that place (and also they gave you HMV vouchers if you were employee of the month so I did a lot of sucking up like that)

#16

Pretty sure it was me they were talking to when they announced that smoking wasn’t allowed on the platform.

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#18

classic Ant

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#19

“this is a team announcement…”

*goes back to sleep*

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#20

Ditto but in my case regarding the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

#21

I’ve had this but on the bus where they say standing upstairs isn’t allowed.

#22

This reminded me of being told off over the tannoy at a petrol station for talking hands-free on my phone while trying to fill up my car with petrol. Couldn’t see what all the fuss was about tbh

#24

Ditto, but in my case regarding the taking of photographs of the newly-opened Canary Wharf station.

#25

2 x incidents to relate here

  1. tannoy at Sainsburys called for the owner of a green Ford Focus estate (i.e. me). Turned out a white van guy had smashed into my car in the carpark and driven off. 2x people had noted down the reg for me. I was very grateful, but never followed through as my car is already pretty dented up and worthless and it didn’t seem worth the bother. Regretted it later when the car failed it’s MOT due to cracked suspension or something around the area of the smash

  2. back in the early 90s (so pre mobile days) my mate and i were driving to attend the Reading festival. We were going to pick up another mate at Reading station, then head to the site. Not long after we set off the car windscreen shattered - so we headed back to my friends house to get it sorted. Knowing we would be hours late now, I managed to call Reading station and get them to tannoy my mate so I could get him to call us at my mate’s house and tell him what was going on. You just don’t need to do stuff like this anymore

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#26

Both good and relevant anecdotes. Thank you.

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#27

appaz its in case you drop your phone and it causes a spark to ignite the petrol and kill us all. I know.

#28

ooo yes

more for me

  • there was a tannoy reminding customers that bikes were not allowed on trains during rush hour.I was that bikewanker

  • been told out over petrol station tanoys a couple of times. Once for having my phone out (have they not seen mythbusters?), once for a bit of low level larking with one of my kids (seemed a bit over the top)

  • also would have been tanoyed loads of times when I actually worked in a supermarket

#29

this seems a bit of a shame doesnt it

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#30

That’s an urban myth though isn’t it?

#31

Got bollocked over a tannoy in a museum in Leeds for throwing a baby doll up in the air and catching it a few times.

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#32

i dunno it’s what the person in the petrol station told me