# I'm Going Insane sane sane... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124 "2008-11-17T15:35:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/1 "2008-11-17T15:35:27Z")
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!! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/2 "2008-11-17T15:41:28Z")
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. An echo would have made it funny at least. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/3 "2008-11-17T15:41:40Z")
Well, does everybody at least speak understandable English glish glish? ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/4 "2008-11-17T16:01:51Z")
I feel your pain pain pain. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/5 "2008-11-17T16:03:23Z")
You should get a duck on the line, to once and for all test the theory. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/6 "2008-11-17T16:06:05Z")
Or a sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/7 "2008-11-17T16:22:47Z")
Look on the bright side–how awesome is it that you get an opportunity to sound like the guy on the commercials for the monster truck rallies? ---
**Author:** ![Dreamy\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dreamy\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreamy_B)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/8 "2008-11-17T16:34:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/9 "2008-11-17T16:35:31Z")
Find a recording of Lou Gehrig’s speech. Today.day.day I.I.I ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/10 "2008-11-17T16:42:36Z")
This is why the good Lord invented doodling and vodka. Get with the program am am. ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/11 "2008-11-17T17:49:42Z")
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 _SCHHHHHHP!__thud_ “I agree. Bob?” \*SCHHHHHHP! _thud_ “Yes.” Plus the occasional hilarity of some dimbulb sliding the phone downtable… and overshooting so that it falls _off_ the table, disconnecting the call. _sigh_ Gotta go. Conf call in 15. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/12 "2008-11-17T18:10:30Z")
“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” D’oh, beaten to the punch by\*\* What Exit? \*\* And I even read through the earlier posts. Damned old man eyes! ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/13 "2008-11-17T18:45:42Z")
> [@Dreamy\_B](#): > > 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. > [@NinetyWt](#): > > 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. > > An echo would have made it funny at least. 😉 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. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/14 "2008-11-17T18:52:29Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/15 "2008-11-17T21:23:10Z")
Will the person taking a piss please put themselves on mute! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/16 "2008-11-17T22:15:48Z")
Sunday…day…day… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/17 "2008-11-17T22:20:19Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > How much you wanna bet he held his doodle out toward the phone like the phone had eyes? This sounds vaguely illegal. Or like the lyrics to a bad Chuck Berry song. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/18 "2008-11-17T22:27:20Z")
I keep one of [these](http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-pages/fart_machine_no_2.html) in my desk for those particularly stimulating conference calls. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/19 "2008-11-17T22:41:06Z")
Off to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124/20 "2008-11-19T17:42:54Z")
And don’t put the conference call on hold, people. We can’t hear the speaker for your hold music! (Actually, that can be a good thing.) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-going-insane-sane-sane/473124.md?page=2)