Skyclub conference calls
#31
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I think the point is that most loud people on conference calls in public spaces WANT to be heard. Along the lines of DO YOU KNOW HOW IMPORTANT I AM? If not, you can listen to this conference call I am on. I'm so important look at me discussing all these seemingly high level things.Take note sky clubbers. i'm a big F**King deal.
I remember a few years ago some guy yakking next to me on a conference call. I said "yo pal, ya mind??".
#32
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I need an app on my phone to play an audio of a toilet flushing near the offender. Perhaps they might reconsider if their meeting attendees keep hearing flushing noises.
#33
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: RDU
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#34
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You don’t need an app. Just go into any airport bathroom and there’s bound to be a guy on the phone taking a dump.
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#38
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#39
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#41
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I had a call I had to be on that was primarily listen-only for me, from a very busy common area of a major domestic SkyClub. One of my colleauges on the other end of the call just couldn't understand why I wasn't answering a particularly thorny HR-related question about one of my direct reports, and was thus questioning my judgement. I'm like "man, I am sitting in a room full of strangers and while none of them care, can this NOT wait until tomorrow?"
When I feel badly is when I have to talk to some of my analysts and there is just no vacant place and I've already passed security. That happened to me in the Admirals Club in AUS a few weeks ago, as I forgot that the BA flight was leaving an hour later and thus the club was as jam-packed as all the gatehouses. Nothing confidential, it's just that nobody around me needs to hear about the size of the GIS shape buffer around the lat/long of the truck stops on I-40.
When I feel badly is when I have to talk to some of my analysts and there is just no vacant place and I've already passed security. That happened to me in the Admirals Club in AUS a few weeks ago, as I forgot that the BA flight was leaving an hour later and thus the club was as jam-packed as all the gatehouses. Nothing confidential, it's just that nobody around me needs to hear about the size of the GIS shape buffer around the lat/long of the truck stops on I-40.
#42
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: RDU
Posts: 5,206
I had a call I had to be on that was primarily listen-only for me, from a very busy common area of a major domestic SkyClub. One of my colleauges on the other end of the call just couldn't understand why I wasn't answering a particularly thorny HR-related question about one of my direct reports, and was thus questioning my judgement. I'm like "man, I am sitting in a room full of strangers and while none of them care, can this NOT wait until tomorrow?"
When I feel badly is when I have to talk to some of my analysts and there is just no vacant place and I've already passed security. That happened to me in the Admirals Club in AUS a few weeks ago, as I forgot that the BA flight was leaving an hour later and thus the club was as jam-packed as all the gatehouses. Nothing confidential, it's just that nobody around me needs to hear about the size of the GIS shape buffer around the lat/long of the truck stops on I-40.
When I feel badly is when I have to talk to some of my analysts and there is just no vacant place and I've already passed security. That happened to me in the Admirals Club in AUS a few weeks ago, as I forgot that the BA flight was leaving an hour later and thus the club was as jam-packed as all the gatehouses. Nothing confidential, it's just that nobody around me needs to hear about the size of the GIS shape buffer around the lat/long of the truck stops on I-40.
#43
Join Date: Dec 2011
Programs: DL DM PM
Posts: 2,030
I had a call I had to be on that was primarily listen-only for me, from a very busy common area of a major domestic SkyClub. One of my colleauges on the other end of the call just couldn't understand why I wasn't answering a particularly thorny HR-related question about one of my direct reports, and was thus questioning my judgement. I'm like "man, I am sitting in a room full of strangers and while none of them care, can this NOT wait until tomorrow?"
When I feel badly is when I have to talk to some of my analysts and there is just no vacant place and I've already passed security. That happened to me in the Admirals Club in AUS a few weeks ago, as I forgot that the BA flight was leaving an hour later and thus the club was as jam-packed as all the gatehouses. Nothing confidential, it's just that nobody around me needs to hear about the size of the GIS shape buffer around the lat/long of the truck stops on I-40.
When I feel badly is when I have to talk to some of my analysts and there is just no vacant place and I've already passed security. That happened to me in the Admirals Club in AUS a few weeks ago, as I forgot that the BA flight was leaving an hour later and thus the club was as jam-packed as all the gatehouses. Nothing confidential, it's just that nobody around me needs to hear about the size of the GIS shape buffer around the lat/long of the truck stops on I-40.
#44
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Still, I had the "am I THAT guy?" feeling.
#45
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This is a tough one -- I try to schedule my calls around my travel schedule so this doesn't happen but it doesn't always work like that, especially if you are about to step on a long flight (especially TCON/TATL/TPAC). If work is paying for me to travel somewhere there's an expectation that I'm available during the course of my travels.
Of course that doesn't mean one should be divulging confidential information or screaming loudly. I try to find the quiet corners but in some SCs it's just not possible (RDU is particularly challenging during busy times because the cubicle area is still pretty open and the rest of the SC is pretty compact -- and I often need to hop on a call at the end of the day when I've timed to take the post-work flight but need to get to the airport with time to park and make it through security).
Of course that doesn't mean one should be divulging confidential information or screaming loudly. I try to find the quiet corners but in some SCs it's just not possible (RDU is particularly challenging during busy times because the cubicle area is still pretty open and the rest of the SC is pretty compact -- and I often need to hop on a call at the end of the day when I've timed to take the post-work flight but need to get to the airport with time to park and make it through security).