No boundaries

This is an ammendment to my post from yesterday.

Another of my new daily comedies I enjoy is counting the number of times someone answers a cell phone in the middle of a meeting. This happens AT LEAST a few times in a given meeting. The worst offenders use the Full Volume Answer. In these cases, the call recipient acts like they are not in a meeting at all and proceed to talk over who ever is speaking or presenting for as long as the call requires. There are no apologies expected or given in these situations. My favorite is watching this happen when there is an executive presenting and whoever the peon employee is answering the phone does so without qualms. Its quite entertaining. Almost as entertaining is the Whisper Answer. In these cases, the call recipient pretends that answering the phone in a stage whisper is not equally as distracting. The best of all is when the person speaking or presenting the one that actually takes a call in the middle of speaking and makes everyone else wait until they tell their wife that yes, they will be home in time for dinner.


My top count of Call answers in meetings was about 11 (3 or 4 by the same offender), but today I think I topped out the count at about 15. You can only beat this with the taking (business) calls from the bathroom stall, another regular occurence that always freaks me out a bit. Is this really necessary? Are you talking to a customer in there? This really crosses a boundary that should not ever be crossed.

And, more to my post about being late - today I was really tipped over the edge on the 'flexible' concept of time here. My last meeting of the day started 15 minutes late and and end 55 minutes overtime, well past 8pm. Again, HOW does anyone get any work done around here? This answers the question why I am I still in the office... Not. Impressed.