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

[snowboardjoe.livejournal.com]

Heh, that was funny. :)

People forget how noisy a cell phone can be on a conference call. Even if they have it muted, it can still generate a lot of noise if it's getting a crappy signal.

Next time just join in and offer some advice.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I was tempted...

"Bob, why don't you knock off early this afternoon to pick up the kids at day care while Sue worries about the arrangements with the in-laws for the weekend? Everybody wins that way."

-or-

"Hey Bob! Remember that your employee benefits includes marriage counselling! Let me look up the number for you..."

-or-

"OK, I'll go pick up your kids. Just give me their names, ages, which rec center and what time to be there. Just shut up already!"