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{{a|confcall| | {{a|confcall|{{image|All-hands-on-deck|jpg|“We’ll just give it another five minutes to allow people to join”.}}}}The notion that gathering 17 people around the world to stop what they’re doing and listen to someone run through a spreadsheet for an hour and a half is in some way a sensible idea. | ||
Made insufferably worse if the group gets through the agenda more quickly than expected and the call leader, who has been droning in a Jersey monotone for 47 minutes, says, “okay, we still have [[twenty-five minutes left]] ...” or “[[I’m conscious that time is precious]]” as if sitting on your tedious [[conference call]] isn’t the worst conceivable use of anyone’s time, patience or goodwill. | Made insufferably worse if the group gets through the agenda more quickly than expected and the call leader, who has been droning in a Jersey monotone for 47 minutes, says, “okay, we still have [[twenty-five minutes left]] ...” or “[[I’m conscious that time is precious]]” as if sitting on your tedious [[conference call]] isn’t the worst conceivable use of anyone’s time, patience or goodwill. | ||
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