Depth charge

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Continuing our theme of submarine warfare, another rare but, among the cognoscenti highly-prized, technique is the depth-charge. Rare because you will only see this when an all-hands conference call has taken a decided turn for the worse, and most experienced conference call convenors can easily avoid such turpitude by avoiding controversial or even substantial topics on the conference call in the first place. As any fule kno, a conference call is no place to discuss anything of any moment you don't already know.

Anyway, a depth-charge: That critical deal approval call has turned into a shit-show. The presenter — a junior in the deal team hoping unrealistically for promotion — is unprepared, transparently does not understand the deal and has committed that mortal error of not warming up the controller group who are hearing his application, and the guy from Treasury legal got out the wrong side of bed this morning and is of a mood to make an example out of young sir in front of his Managing Director boss.