Crazy Ivan
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Conference Call Anatomy™
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Crazy Ivan was a Russian submarine manoeuvre in the Cold War, popularised in the The Hunt for Red October, in which a rogue Soviet sub-commander from Dundee would unexpectedly turn hard left[1] to clear his baffles and ascertain whether he was being followed.
The sudden, unexpected nature of the manoeuvre led to the term being popularised in the conference-calling world, especially since the advent of Skype, to denote the practice of maliciously taking another participant off mute[2] in order to reveal, by her clatter signature that she has tuned out of the conference call, and is sitting broadside and defenceless to any conference call ambush another participant on the call cares to mount.
A boss, but all the same dick, move.