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The line one rolls out when one can no longer bear an [[all-hands conference call]], but there is no less brazen way of engineering an exit. | The line one rolls out when one can no longer bear an [[all-hands conference call]], but there is no less brazen way of engineering an exit. | ||
It implies you have something better to do — let’s face it; it's a matter of irrefutable mathematical logic that one has something better to do | It implies you have something better to do — let’s face it; if what one is currently doing is attending a [[conference call]], it's a matter of irrefutable mathematical logic that one has something better to do; even head-butting a filing cabinet would count — but doesn’t commit you to articulating anything upon which an unemancipated fellow participant could pass judgment. | ||
There are more or less snarky variations of this expression, the best of which is “I have to hop: I have an [[industry call]] | There are more or less snarky variations of this expression, the best of which is “I have to hop: I have an [[industry call]]” — the office worker’s equivalent of “I’d love to stop and chat but I have to go and wait in the lobby.” | ||
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