A Conference Call In Real Life (1 Viewer)

[zamboni]

This seems to be making the rounds all over the net - very funny if you regularly participate in conference calls at work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ

 

[The Noid]

They missed so many others:

• Person dialing in while on the road and not on mute, so you hear traffic sounds or air whooshing
• Person who is 5x louder than everyone else on the call
• Person who is 5x lower than everyone else
• Person typing or tapping their fingers very loudly by the conference room mic
• Leader interrupting the call and asking "Hi. Who joined?" every single time there's a beep, even 40 minutes in
• Person who was on the previous call/line and never hung up, but listens anyway
• Person who is the only other one on the line (because you #0 to get a count) and refuses to acknowledge they are there when you repeatedly ask them to identify themselves
• Person who dials into the wrong meeting and interrupts to ask if they are on the wrong call
• Person with a thick accent that no one wants to be the one to ask him/her to repeat what they said so everyone pretends they heard it fine
• Person who thinks they are on mute
• Person who forgets they are on mute
• Person who puts their phone on hold so everyone has to talk over their elevator hold music

 

[zamboni]

They missed so many others:

• Person dialing in while on the road and not on mute, so you hear traffic sounds or air whooshing
• Person who is 5x louder than everyone else on the call
• Person who is 5x lower than everyone else
• Person typing or tapping their fingers very loudly by the conference room mic
• Leader interrupting the call and asking "Hi. Who joined?" every single time there's a beep, even 40 minutes in
• Person who was on the previous call/line and never hung up, but listens anyway
• Person who is the only other one on the line (because you #0 to get a count) and refuses to acknowledge they are there when you repeatedly ask them to identify themselves
• Person who dials into the wrong meeting and interrupts to ask if they are on the wrong call
• Person with a thick accent that no one wants to be the one to ask him/her to repeat what they said so everyone pretends they heard it fine
• Person who thinks they are on mute
• Person who forgets they are on mute
• Person who puts their phone on hold so everyone has to talk over their elevator hold music

Gotta leave room for the sequel.

 

[kentric]

I actually wasted two minutes of my time before closing that window. That was bad.

 

[ffldrew]

I actually wasted two minutes of my time before closing that window. That was bad.

Don't want to even think about looking at this - I have wasted a much time on real calls myself to know I don't need to listen to it anymore

I am on a project with a daily scrum call of between 20-25 people daily - an AGILE SCRUM CALL with 20 effen people - I feel like blowing my brains out every morning

 

[DSP]

Things like this are why im glad I dont work for a living

 

[17seconds]

I actually wasted two minutes of my time before closing that window. That was bad.

Don't want to even think about looking at this - I have wasted a much time on real calls myself to know I don't need to listen to it anymore

I am on a project with a daily scrum call of between 20-25 people daily - an AGILE SCRUM CALL with 20 effen people - I feel like blowing my brains out every morning

I find those to be pretty easy because they are structured. You go around the horn answering the 3 questions (what you did yesterday, what you are doing today, and if you have any roadblocks.)

...unless your call devolves into something else, which happens

 

[Spin]

One that annoys me is when you ask a question, then dead silence as everyone waits, and then have to ask it again this time adding "Mark, are you there?" "Umm.. yah, sorry was looking into... *drifts into an inaudible response*...can you repeat the question one more time?"

 

[Rove!]

I'm sorry, I was Multi-tasking...