Depth charge: Difference between revisions

{{a|confcall|}}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 the sort of turn for the worse<ref>Which may, but need not be, a [[crazy Ivan|hard-left turn at the bottom of the hour]].</ref> that most experienced [[conference call]] convenors can easily avoid<ref>Viz., by keeping any matters of controversy or substance off the agenda in the first place.</ref>. As any fule kno, a [[conference call]] is no place to raise anything of significance to which you don't already know the answer.

Anyway, a [[depth charge]]: That critical deal approval call has turned into a shit-show. The presenter — a junior on the deal team, hoping unrealistically for promotion — is unprepared, transparently does not understand {{sex|his}} deal and, to boot<ref>''Das Boot'', needless to say.</ref>, has committed that mortal error of not warming up the controller group who are due to hear {{sex|his}} application. Further, the cantankerous 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 the assembled.

The young fellow proceeds and, in the face of the most innocuous question from [[compliance]] limply descends into a chaos of stuttering and patent fabrication, punctuated by awkward pauses, during which a distant voice is picked up an a someone’s microphone — whose, we cannot say<ref>This is getting harder to mask in the age of [[Skype problems|Skype]], sadly</ref>. The voice —is quiet, but clear, and sounding as though it has come from a mouth turned from the handset in a tone of surreptition, says: <br>