[Ipg-smz] Your conference-call horror stories & banalities, please.

[Perlow, Jason]

I had one of these yesterday: Dell's conferencing system utterly refused to
work with my iPhone XS Max and DTMF tones. I kept punching in codes like a
lunatic and it kept rejecting them. Really pissed off my client because I
could not get in. "Why didn't you use a land line?" ugh, because I was
coming out of a dentist appointment.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 6:51 PM Tim Walker <tewalkerjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Earlier today I tweeted this:
>
> "Has there ever been a novel set entirely during a conference call?"
>
> (You're never gonna believe this, but I was stuck on a conference call at
> the time.)
>
> Esther and others chimed in with their own riffs on this — "Can you see my
> screen?" "I think you're on mute, David" etc. — and as they were doing
> that, an actual idea for a novel formed in my mind. It has an everyman hero
> wearing business casual and will operate in a vein of absurdist, mordant
> humor.
>
> So, if you please, share with me the tropes that spring to mind for you
> when you think of conference calls. Bonus points for any specific hilarious
> moments you've experienced.
>
> Thank you!
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