Posted: 10/25/2010 8:36:23 AM EDT
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I work with fucking retards.
Mute your fucking phone you stupid bastards. I can hear kids in the background, televisions, other phone calls, coughing, burping and what I'm pretty sure is a fart or two. And some dumb cunt I've never heard before keeps saying "HELLLOOO, HELLOOOO, Still on, still on?" every single time there is a five second pause. Now they want to try cam conferences and webinars. This should be a fucking laugh riot. |
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Quoted: And sales meetings. That's the one time a week that a salesman is guaranteed to not make a sale.Quoted: This and committee meetings. for those of you who cant relate thats a meeting pretty much for the sake of having a meeting.Quoted: The single most wasteful time is the conference call. QFMFT |
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What I gave up on May 18, 2009:
Monday morning sales commit calls. 1+ hour per week I will never get back. Sales pipeline review 1x per month. Hours I will never get back. Business review last Friday night of the month. End of the fiscal quarter and fiscal year, daily reviews. And let's not forget the predictable: "What's the conference ID?" "Please mute your phone." "What time is the con call?" "I will take it from my car (and not have any notes.)" I said goodbye to corporate sales and couldn't be more pleased. |
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Timely update: Since it's well known around the office that I'm the audio junkie, guess who gets to fire up an audio editor and "fix" recorded con calls, for the board of directors? I just got done removing sentences, creatively cutting and pasting a few words to correct verbal gaffes, cleaning up the audio on some participants to compensate for crappy microphones... I didn't think it could get any worse. Try listening to one OVER AND OVER AND OVER for editing, then posting it to your intranet site for general consumption.  |
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Quoted: The single most wasteful time is the conference call. If my computer is in the room I will either do other work or go on here. Nothing like a conference call with 20 people on and everyone trying to talk at once... Rich in Muncie: OK people, let's get back on topic. Bob, I believe it was your turn. Bob: No, it was Mike's turn in Denver Mike in Cincinnati: No it was mine Mike in Denver: What, can you speak up, I couldn't hear you... Karen in NC: I'm sorry but I have to leave, I'm being paged in the plant Rich: OK, can you check back, you're not up for a bit... Karen: Gary can cover me, Gary, you there? Gary: Yeah, I'm here Rich: OK, so Gary... Mike in Denver: Am I up? Rich: Sorry, go ahead Frank in Pittsburgh: I don't think we resolved that last action item. Who was going to take lead with that? and it keeps going, and going, and going! |
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I work with fucking retards. Mute your fucking phone you stupid bastards. I can hear kids in the background, televisions, other phone calls, coughing, burping and what I'm pretty sure is a fart or two. And some dumb cunt I've never heard before keeps saying "HELLLOOO, HELLOOOO, Still on, still on?" every single time there is a five second pause. Now they want to try cam conferences and webinars. This should be a fucking laugh riot. This kills me. If it is a sales call and someone does this, after the second time I just go, "hello? hello? hello?" and hang up. |
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Quoted: I just broke out into a cold sweat. Quoted: The single most wasteful time is the conference call. If my computer is in the room I will either do other work or go on here. Nothing like a conference call with 20 people on and everyone trying to talk at once... Rich in Muncie: OK people, let's get back on topic. Bob, I believe it was your turn. Bob: No, it was Mike's turn in Denver Mike in Cincinnati: No it was mine Mike in Denver: What, can you speak up, I couldn't hear you... Karen in NC: I'm sorry but I have to leave, I'm being paged in the plant Rich: OK, can you check back, you're not up for a bit... Karen: Gary can cover me, Gary, you there? Gary: Yeah, I'm here Rich: OK, so Gary... Mike in Denver: Am I up? Rich: Sorry, go ahead Frank in Pittsburgh: I don't think we resolved that last action item. Who was going to take lead with that? and it keeps going, and going, and going! |