A Suggestion to My Colleagues

[bjarvis]

If you're going to join a conference call while telecommuting from home, you may wish to consider muting your telephone while waiting for the meeting to start. While your fight with your wife was mildly entertaining in a slow-moving-train-wreck kind of way, it's not how I'd like to start my morning, especially since I was keen on neither the meeting nor the morning already.

Thank you.

Comments

[manley1.livejournal.com]

Awkward....

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yeah. What is the right etiquette?

Ideally, you'd want to tell them immediately, but who knew they'd be launching into a fight?

Once they've started, we could tell them they're not on mute. Alas, they've not been on mute for some time which means they'll suddenly realize we've been listening for some time.

If I was more clever, I would have dropped off the line, then re-joined making a big production of just arriving and immediately noting to the maritally-challenged that they're not on mute. Alas, I thought of that a half-hour too late.

My inclination is to pretend nothing happened. A proper gentleman does not notice or hear certain things --or so I am assured since I'm hardly a proper gentleman.

[moofedct.livejournal.com]

Improper gentleman perhaps?