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

[Richi Jennings]

In case you've not seen these two hilarious Tripp&Tyler sketches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNz82r5nyUw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMOOG7rWTPg

...mind you, they possibly stole a lot of ideas from David Grady:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbJAJEtNUX0


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On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 5:12 PM Tim Walker <tewalkerjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> These are great, Tom — thanks.
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:38 AM Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From my ugly conf call memories:
>>
>> 1) PR and Company CEO think they're on mute or haven't heard my entrance
>> tone. PR company is in the midst of a long diss of the publication I'm
>> representing, calling out chapter and verse for each of their top staff.
>> Epithets and expletives abound. CEO is digesting the background. Oh, you
>> heard about X from Y pub? Five minute story about taking two journos on a
>> drunken #MeToo experience. Said he caught a case of something. PR person
>> snickers. I clear my throat. You'd have thought a completely different pair
>> of individuals were subsequently on this call.
>>
>> 2) Had a nine-person conf call. CEO/founder, VP marketing, product
>> manager, geeks from Israel and India on speakerphones, PR person
>> desperately trying to manage the call, and a product engineer. Fortunately,
>> they knew how to use mute controls. The rest: Total mayhem, with mayhem
>> slides, then the app demo that switched back and forth between machines,
>> and nothing worked at all, period, for the entire wasted hour. Nine
>> sheepish goodbyes.
>>
>> 3) We have a conf call to tell a product manager that his stuff actually
>> doesn't work, and why. This is impossible for him to believe, so we switch
>> into view screen mode. He watches the problems with his own eyes. He yells,
>> "FU A$$holes" and terminates the call. An hour later, a request from the VP
>> to do a conf call. Rinse repeat the demo from our side. "Hooooolleeeeeeyyyy
>> F" is his response. Next morning, another and final conf call, final
>> because we don't get paid to teach vendors their mistakes. It's the coder.
>> I fixed it, he says. A week later, we've checked it. Nope, not fixed,
>> smoking crater with scents of sulfur. They were bought by a certain three
>> letter company two weeks later for almost a billion dollars.
>>
>> 4) Product manager in Israel does a skype conf call. Very late in the day
>> for him. He didn't realize his cam was on. Naked, of course. Very hairy
>> guy. Eventually, he realizes this and the screen goes blank, but not the
>> audio. I hear a scramble while he's talking. Call is cut short. Oddly and
>> perhaps for the same reason, he leaves the company not long after.
>>
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/10/2018 10:11 AM, Tom Geller wrote:
>>
>> Funny you should ask this, because Cracked.com had a somewhat-related
>> listicle yesterday:
>>
>>
>> http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-1104-21-hilariously-cringeworthy-moments-from-live-tv-shows/
>>
>> It includes the famous "baby running into the room" conference call (#19)
>>
>> #21 had me rolling on the floor.
>>
>> ---
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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