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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; 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. It would be an act of [[passive aggression]] beyond the pale, even for the most resentful [[project manager]], to enquire to ''what'' a departing participant feels obliged to hop, and anyway, each other participants, mutely admiring the departee, will be thinking, “there but for the grace of God go I” — indeed, “there ''with'' the grace of God ''will'' go I as soon as I can contrive an appropriate pause in the moderators monologue to engineer a similar exit” — so it is not done to ask such pointed questions. | 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. | ||
It would be an act of [[passive aggression]] beyond the pale, even for the most resentful [[project manager]], to enquire to ''what'' a departing participant feels obliged to hop, and anyway, each other participants, mutely admiring the departee, will be thinking, “there but for the grace of God go I” — indeed, “there ''with'' the grace of God ''will'' go I as soon as I can contrive an appropriate pause in the moderators monologue to engineer a similar exit” — so it is not done to ask such pointed questions. | |||
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, “Look, I’d love to stop and chat but I have to go and wait in the lobby.” | 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, “Look, I’d love to stop and chat but I have to go and wait in the lobby.” | ||
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*[[Industry call]] | *[[Industry call]] | ||