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

Re: too many parties to the conference call

[kent4str.livejournal.com]

Somewhere at home I've got a Miss Manners I clipped from the mid-eighties where someone actually asked about the etiquette appropriate to when you meet someone, say, at a party, with whom you've had anonymous sex, say in a bathroom or a public park.

Miss Manner's reply was, "You obviously don't understand the importance of a proper introduction."

Love her.

As for this morning's phone issue, I would probably have just not said anything, all the while really, really wanting to chime in on the discussion.