OT-Conference Calls
I work for a company on the west coast (I am CST) that on a moments notice will schedule 2 hour calls that go two hours long and keep me on the line until late on Friday. The maximum a call should go is one hour before you lose everyone-so stupid.
That is all.
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Two-hour conference calls sound horrible.
Not sure I've ever seen any meeting, assembly, etc. that needs to be longer than an hour. Weddings, high school graduations, curriculum planning meetings - nothing needs to be more than an hour, imo.
Half my team is in India. The bad news is it's the 'new' half so I spend a lot of time on conference calls doing things like code reads. The good news is they work afternoon shifts, so we meet in my mornings during normal business hours.
+1 - Nice Caddyshack reset....
I work for one of the leading companies for providing that conferencing/video conferencing software. If you work in an office in the US there's about a 20% chance my company made the phone on your desk.
I await patiently your pitchforks and torches.
There are two types of people in this world. Those that prefer email and those that prefer a phone call. I prefer the phone call. I fucking hate email.
The phone-loving people are godless communists. I can read, process, and delete an email in like five to ten seconds. And if it's important I have a searchable, file-able record of what's been said. It takes way longer to dial the voicemail and listen to a message all the way through because people refuse to get to the point. I can't search for it later, either, if I want to keep it I have to listen through all the other saved voice mails til I get to the one I want. Voice mail is a waste of my time. Email all the way.
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When I talk to my mother on the phone, it's like a two hour conference call.
My mother can still hear what I say but she'd rather just talk, so there can be 10 - 15 minute stretches where I say nothing, then maybe three words, then repeat. My husband will mouth, "Are you talking to your mother?"
Everyone in the biz world has a couple of a-holes that schedule late meetings or lunch meetings. These folks have no life.
I work to live - not live to work.
The “best” conference calls are the ones that quickly devolve into chapter meetings for the Deceased Equine Flagellation Society . . .
I was thinking Dilbert while I read every post. We think alike
Conference call was scheduled for two hours went two hours over making 4 hours total on a Friday. However having read over the thread seems it could be worse. I feel a little better reading how miserable it could be.
BTW I go to a regularly-scheduled meeting at UM where people regularly use conferencing so they don't have to come from north campus to central campus. I get that the lost travel time is a bear, but those people are like ghosts in the room and I feel as if I don't know them at all. Face to face makes a difference.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=6PjW6c6o3i4