25 Reasons to make you hate conference calls too!
Issues with conference calls:
1. Conference calls getting postponed (again) as nobody is available on the proposed date.
2. After ordering the pointless or useless conference call, your boss calls off his participation.
3. Your boss has second thoughts about the call and you have to lead the call.
4. Listening to the wait music that keeps going on as the organizer hasn’t set up the call yet.
5. Calling the missing person on his mobile phone while the call has started already.
6. Beeps of people entering the call late but who don’t announce their presence. (and leave again)
7. Late participants asking for getting them informed about the matters or subject of the call.
8. Interrupting the call for answering their important mobile phone call.
9. Getting notified 15 minutes before the call the most important person isn’t going to listen in.
10. People busy doing other things during the call (Browsing, emailing, sms/texting).
11. The manager tells everything and you have to shut up, but still you need to be attending.
12. Persons requiring all the attention for making his statements on non related matters.
13. People shouting ‘yes’ ‘ok’ through the speaker far away from their desk.
14. The person speaking the most using a bad connection on a mobile phone.
15. The person not saying anything but his mobile phone emits beeps and sounds.
16. You have already discussed and concluded, but your boss just wanted to be part of it.
17. The conference call that keeps on going and you don’t know how to get out.
18. The matters discussed are not related to any business and becomes small talk.
19. The decision maker quits the call half way through, leaving you behind with no decision power.
20. Conference calls that take place when you should be driving home.
21. Lots of words describing cases, reasons and situations, but nobody gets to a conclusion.
22. No report written afterwards.
23. Report with a different conclusion or non discussed action points
24. No action plan by item after the call.
25. Conference calls with as action plan to call again in two weeks (or so).
Why do you hate conference calls ?
What type of conference call do you hate?
When do you hate conference calls?
What is your most embarrassing conference call?
How long took your most boring conference call?
Do you sleep during conference calls?
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Seems very familiar. Indeed, you always seem to be waiting for at least 1 missing person.
26. Noisy lines. Effect multiplied by people with bad mobile connections. Voip can suck too.
27. People who are in the same physical location gathering around a phone put on speakerphone and having to shout at the phone.
28. Not having to be on the conf call yourself but in the vincinity of 27. (at least book a meeting room when you are planning to start shouting at a phone)
29. Even when you all speak the same non-English language, people tend to start talking in English.
30. Having to ask different language people repeatedly to speak English, when someone else says he/she thinks that’s exactly what they’re trying to do (it’s English, but not as we know it).
31. People talking to eachother in a language you don’t understand (this is rude, people!). Might turn out to be 30.
Sitting with the doctors in a room and talking with other doctors via video conferencing was very exciting for me when I first time sat for a meeting. I first felt like a movie going on until when one of the doctors asked me for my comments. It was really weird and exciting.
this is the funniest thing I have ever read!
I am on a conference all right now, and my Dallas-based manager has said “Y’all” about 10 times already. I always picture her with a cowgirl hat and two pistols when she says it.
Ker-pow, ker-pow!
I HATE conference calls!
Appreciate the info guys, thanks
Such a usefule blog
Good points made. But inspite of all these disadvantages, there are many businesses that rely entirely on conference calls in setting up meetings.
Of course as you sell conference call systems/services.