So, we’re now an hour and fifteen minutes into this conference call call call. Seventy five mintues of hearing speakers offering up nothing that anyone is really interested in in in. The first guy let us know that there were layoffs on Thursday day day. Yes yes yes, we know all about it it it, and there’s really nothing that you can add that we don’t already know know know.
He then handed it off to another speaker who has been going over the results of the employee survey vey vey. Imagine that that that, people “like” working for our company ny ny. They’re not bounching off the walls walls walls, but they generally like their jobs jobs jobs. Clearly, this needs a 45 minutes speech speech speech.
And though it all all all, there has been the most fucking annoying echo you’ve ever heard heard heard! Gaaaaa! Gaaaaa! Gaaaaa! Make it stop stop stop!!
Heh. I was on a conference call last Thursday with 60+ other people. I couldn’t even hear the people who were trying to speak. All I could hear was folks chewing gum, making comments to their neighbor, tapping on their desks, playing music, breathing loudly, etc. etc. At the end the time for the call ran out and the speaker was trying to shout over some Muzak.
Seriously, if you’re on a call and you’re not the one talking mute your phone. And dammit don’t put your phone on speaker even if everyone else in the room is also on the call because , guess what tard head, that makes it echo. Also if you’re on a headset move the mic part away from your mouth, breathing, hell. The last one I was on, I could hear someone’s heart beating. The mic really doesn’t need to be in your mouth, just somewhere near it.
It is inexcusable that no one in that conference call slid the phone around during the call. It’s not even like a real conference call without constant
Our conference line has a feature that lets you mute everyone if you’re the moderator. When I use it I give people the benefit of the doubt and ask them to mute their phone but there is always some jackass with the speaker phone on and conducting business/eating lunch/rustling papers so I invariably end up having to mute everybody. It’s an odd sensation because my headset goes totally silent.
We had a conference call a few months ago where the client on the other end of the phone kept using body language, like nodding when he agreed with something, but without ever saying anything.
Then, while talking about some layout, he said: “No, I meant something more like this.” ::scratch, scratch, scratch, sound of doodling:: “See?”
ETA: How much you wanna bet he held his doodle out toward the phone like the phone had eyes?
