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Office tip: Conference calls

Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:57 pm
Posted by tss22h8
30.4 N 90.9 W
Member since Jan 2007
18793 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:57 pm
If you're on a conference call and you have to step away, do not put your phone on hold. Everyone on the call will hear your company's on-hold music.

You're welcome.
Posted by craigbiggio
Member since Dec 2009
31805 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:58 pm to
Too much of a pussy to say this to your coworker so you have to post it here
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53834 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:58 pm to
It amazes me that people still do that shite but it happens on about 75% of our conference calls
Posted by SidewalkDawg
Chair
Member since Nov 2012
10308 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:58 pm to
quote:

If you're on a conference call and you have to step away, do not put your phone on hold. Everyone on the call will hear your company's on-hold music. You're welcome.


I just got fired for taking a shite during my conference call thanks to your advice a-hole.
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
5493 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:59 pm to
On hold music? You work at a Best Buy or something?
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
51622 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:59 pm to
I have my company's hold music set to Hanson's "Mmmm Bop". I've had a dramatic reduction in the need for conference calls lately.
Posted by Festus
With Skillet
Member since Nov 2009
86142 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:59 pm to
Another tip, when you're on a conference call and going through a divorce, make sure to mute the conference call when your husband calls in and you have an all out fight on your cell phones.

Unless you want to entertain the rest of the conference group.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
76781 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:59 pm to
who doesn't know this?
Posted by Tactical Insertion
Member since Feb 2011
3205 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:00 pm to
Thanks will relay to my assistant
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106086 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:01 pm to
You no like FGL?
Posted by tss22h8
30.4 N 90.9 W
Member since Jan 2007
18793 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:02 pm to
quote:

who doesn't know this?
Somebody in the CC I was just on.

And I WOULD say it to the person who does it if I knew who the frick it was.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53834 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:05 pm to
quote:

On hold music? You work at a Best Buy or something?

I work in an office for a big company and we have hold music.
Posted by DirtyMikeandtheBoys
Member since May 2011
19467 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:05 pm to
you don't have a mute button?
Posted by UGATiger26
Jacksonville, FL
Member since Dec 2009
9128 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:09 pm to
Whenever I have conference calls in the afternoon, I always wait to eat my lunch until the call.

That way I can say things like "sorry ya'll, I have to take my lunch during this call."

For one, it makes it seem like I'm busier than I really am. And two, I can take a bite and pretend I'm chewing if someone asks me a question that I have to think up a bullshite answer for.
Posted by GeauxColonels
Tottenham Fan | LSU Fan
Member since Oct 2009
25606 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:23 pm to
quote:

It amazes me that people still do that shite but it happens on about 75% of our conference calls

Same. Also amazes me how many people don't automatically mute their phones when joining a call.
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
41382 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:41 pm to
Thing I love about Lync calls, it automatically mutes you when you dial in. Nothing like dialing into a conference call on the toilet and/or from home with your mobile and forgetting to hit mute.
Posted by Trauma14
Member since Aug 2010
6581 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:46 pm to
MUTE
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
179917 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:46 pm to
i hit mute so i can't hear what they saying no more.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
76120 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:47 pm to
Star 9 bro.
Posted by the LSUSaint
Member since Nov 2009
15444 posts
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:50 pm to
So they made a mute button for morons like you
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