"I'm an Accountant..."

I felt a little stupid today at work today. I was helping out a friend/coworker/fellow-blogger figure out an issue with our company's bank. Earlier this week, he had accidentally deposited a Canadian check into our US currency account instead of our Canadian account. It was an innocent mistake. In order to protect the bank's identify, I won't give the name. Let's just say the banks name is, "Fells Wargo." Anyway, my friend's called a customer rep for the zillionth time around 5pm. My boss wanted us to confirm, one more time, how the error was to be corrected. I was there to help since , me being me, wanted to get hear the story directly from Fells Wargo. My friend re-explained the problem to a rep, was put on hold for ten minutes , then had to hear the rep give the answer we didn't want to hear. So, in order to add to the conversation, I said, "Hi, this is Rodney. I'm an accountant here..."

Forget the rest of the call. I felt a little bit stupid. [waving hands in air] "Look at me... I'm the accountant. You must listen to me 'cause I'm a big man on campus. You know, me...the accountant..." I was a bit embaressed but finished off the conversation getting the answers I didn't want to hear.

Though I'm very happy with my new "Staff Accountant" title, it's strange actually using it...