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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Tall_Artist_8863 on 2025-11-20 16:14:50+00:00.
I'm a real estate agent. Been doing this for about three years. Yesterday I had a showing with this client who's been looking for houses for SIX MONTHS. Every house has something wrong. Too many stairs, wrong shade of beige, neighbors car is ugly, I'm not making this up.
After the showing I'm driving back to my office and I'm venting to my coworker via voice memo. This is something we do all the time, just blow off steam about difficult clients. I recorded like a 4 minute rant. Called her exhausting, said she has champagne taste on a beer budget, the whole thing.
Hit send. Except I didn't send it to my coworker Jessica.
I sent it to the client. Jennifer. Same first letter, both J names, right next to each other in my recent contacts.
I realized immediately. Like that sick drop in your stomach when you know you just fucked up but it's too late. I watched the little "delivered" notification pop up and just sat in my car going oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck.
I tried to unsend it. You can't unsend voice memos in text messages apparently, which I learned the hard way. Then I tried calling her thinking maybe I could explain before she listened to it? She didn't answer.
She texted back 20 minutes later. Just said "I've heard enough. Find yourself a new client." Then she left me a one star review on Zillow mentioning that I called her exhausting and mocked her budget.
My broker called me this morning. Someone forwarded him the review. I had to sit in his office and explain what happened while he just stared at me like I was an idiot.
Now I'm trying to do damage control but there's not much I can do. The review is public. Other agents in my office have seen it. One of them asked if I was the "champagne taste beer budget" guy.
I lost a client and possibly tanked my reputation because I couldn't double check who I was sending a voice memo to.
TL;DR: Sent a 4 minute rant about my difficult client TO my difficult client, lost her as a client and got a public one star review calling me unprofessional.