Anybody that works from home or have co-workers outside your area, this will hit home.[video=youtube_share;DYu_bGbZiiQ]http://youtu.be/DYu_bGbZiiQ[/video]
A Conference Call in Real Life
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I mean seriously...for anyone that regularly partakes in conference calls with these universal call-in numbers, I'd challenge you to claim you've never been one (or all) of these people in this video at least one time in your life.
Love it!
Love it!
Love the part where he is checking to see if everyone got his graph, and the gal pipes up "got it!" and the flash to her screen shows she's playing freecell.
My favorite is the guy that is breaking up and then ends up talking to a wall in the hallway.
The best excuse I've heard for not listening. "I'm sorry, I was on mute... what was the question?" Mute doesn't shut down the speaker, just the mic. Now it is legitimate if you were on mute when saying, "What? I was "multi-tasking", which of course is code that I was reading CycloneFanatic while you were talking. In fact I'm on one of these hell calls right now while typing this bit of gold.
The best excuse I've heard for not listening. "I'm sorry, I was on mute... what was the question?" Mute doesn't shut down the speaker, just the mic. Now it is legitimate if you were on mute when saying, "What? I was "multi-tasking", which of course is code that I was reading CycloneFanatic while you were talking. In fact I'm on one of these hell calls right now while typing this bit of gold.
Yeah this nails it.
I think it's actually better when everyone calls in remote. The worst is when you have 3 or 4 in a conference room and then 3 or 4 on the conference call.
A couple of things I would add.
"Can the person typing please hit mute on their phone"
"So how's the weather in....." What's funny about this one is that we never ask how the weather is in India but we always ask how it is in Omaha (120 miles away). Probably because we can't pronounce the name of the India city.
I think it's actually better when everyone calls in remote. The worst is when you have 3 or 4 in a conference room and then 3 or 4 on the conference call.
A couple of things I would add.
"Can the person typing please hit mute on their phone"
"So how's the weather in....." What's funny about this one is that we never ask how the weather is in India but we always ask how it is in Omaha (120 miles away). Probably because we can't pronounce the name of the India city.
Yeah, this is so much worse. It's always to hear everybody in the room.
My favorite conference call ever was when I was on a big construction project in Cali, and there were about 20 project management, engineer, environmental, and land rights type people in a conference room while the construction workers were on the phone.
We were talking schedule and one of the foundation foreman hops on and says, "Yeah, we're gunna git a 2nd drill out hurr and start gangbanging them holes!".
I think I've been all of them this week.
A few years ago I was on a call where I was presenting and was cut off. Not realizing it, I kept going for about 5 minutes and I truly was thinking "they are hanging on ever word! I own this call."
Making the rounds at work here as well.
The same guys did this one, which made the rounds last year which is also good.
[video=youtube;rIABo0d9MVE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIABo0d9MVE&feature=player_embedded[/video]
edit: these guys have been making videos since before YouTube. I remember "Things you can't do when your not in a pool" on Ebaums with the same guys.
The same guys did this one, which made the rounds last year which is also good.
[video=youtube;rIABo0d9MVE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIABo0d9MVE&feature=player_embedded[/video]
edit: these guys have been making videos since before YouTube. I remember "Things you can't do when your not in a pool" on Ebaums with the same guys.
I was going to add, not true because no one was on CF during the meeting. Actually pretty much like all the calls I've been on.
Everything is 100% right on. One time I was in conference room with about 15-20 people and we had one of our systems architects on the phone and he rear ended someone during the call. Not bad but just bumped into the person in front of them just enough that it was really funny and hard not to laugh.
My daily post count scales exactly with the amount of time I'm on conference calls.
The offshore / onshore will feature the collective response;
Onshore team: "Is that something we can get done?"
Offshore team: Muted pause. Muted pause. Muted pause as offshore team discusses. "Yes."
