Conference calls are totally brilliant. I was on one yesterday and thanks to the magic mute button on my raspberry I could sit there, listen, type my blog and fart and none of the dozen or so people on the call are any the wiser. I was talking to ……….or rather not talking to………..a group of people from our Miami office. Now, for those of you who have never experienced a conference call let me explain what happens. They’re exactly like a normal meeting in that nothing happens and nothing gets done and everyone talks bollocks but you don’t have to sit there, remembering not to fall asleep and not to pick your nose in front of President Gerry Cahill.
I just poured myself another cup of tea and at one point during the call I went to the toilet for five minutes, and when I finally rejoined the conversation nobody had even noticed I’d been away.
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