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

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

I once called an accountant contact of mine here who does US taxes for expats in order to get some advice and ensure that his contact information hadn't changed. He was courteous, but was yelling things to his wife in the background, and finally he excused himself and asked whether he could call me back.

When he did, several days later, he said that his wife was in the process of leaving him and moving out at the exact time I called. I commiserated.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

I think this one takes the prize!

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Whoa! THAT is very sad!