Friday's Unscientific Poll + Five Days of B&W 2/5

[nanila]

I took this photo last week, after MP Jo Cox was assassinated. I want to make it very clear, for what I hope are obvious reasons this morning, that this photo is about her death.

In the hope that others could also use the distraction of an Unscientific Poll:

Poll #17530 Telecon Unmute Bingo

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24

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Whilst on a work-related telecon, I have heard the following “participant unintentionally unmuted” actions

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sneezing
17 (77.3%)

coughing
16 (72.7%)

burping
7 (31.8%)

farting
4 (18.2%)

swearing
10 (45.5%)

typing
16 (72.7%)

boiling a kettle
6 (27.3%)

attempting to dial another number
5 (22.7%)

conducting a separate phone call on a different device
13 (59.1%)

deriding the person currently speaking
6 (27.3%)

deriding the chairperson
2 (9.1%)

flushing the toilet
1 (4.5%)

I can escalate this:

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Comments

[whereisirisnow]

You must have very interesting telecons, to come up with all these options :)

[nanila]

I think it's more the sheer volume, rather than interestingness!

[davidgillon]

Sympathy! I spent most of a year in work-related telecons - and I really do mean most of my time in that year. I got brought in to rewrite the Evil Aerospace QA procedures, all of them, on the grounds that the actual QA managers didn't have the time to do it. So I got the job, but because I wasn't a QA specialist we set it up so I was practically permanently teleconned with a senior QA guy at one of the American sites and when we weren't talking to each other we were using the full AV suite for telecons with our bosses and their bosses.

And at the end of the year we still couldn't reliably initiate a telecon from either end, and regularly ended up listening to the other side going "well have you tried dialling again?"

[gwendraith]

That's a lovely picture.

[nanila]

Thank you. I hope her legacy lasts longer than the lowered flags.

[redsixwing]

A lovely photo and fitting tribute. I read BBC quite a bit even though I'm not really their target audience, and she seems to have been quite the hard worker.

(Are you going to post the "I can escalate this" results? Those seem like they'd be entertaining.)

[nanila]

Thanks. She was only just getting started in politics, too. :(

That's a good idea! I don't usually follow up on the Unscientific Poll results, but this would be worth it. I'll put them (names redacted) in the post of next Friday's poll.

[fred_mouse]

/o\ for the story of the pic; it is, however, a stunning pic.

I don't think I've ever been on a work related teleconference. I have, however, been the person in the background making completely unrelated noises, which may or may not have gone through (partner used to make such calls from bed). I think at least one kid wandered in during a teleconference, and either demanded cuddles or a book, but I'm going back a while, and I may be conflating two separate incidents.

[pbristow]

I've been in the gents - mid-stream, as it were - when my boss wandered in, phone to his ear; occupied the other urinal; started doing the necessary; and then started speaking in a carefully structured way that made it clear this was a telecon rather than just a chat with a colleague...

He was still standing right next to the one and only hand-dryer when I started it up. Must've sounded good to the other participants. =:o?

[fred_mouse]

Oh dear.

[nanila]

AAAAHHHHH NOOOOOO

[nanila]

Thank you.

I've been on work telecons with a child on my lap. Once, actually, Humuhumu gave a perfectly timed howl. I unmuted briefly so that the other participants could hear it as a response to a question, which prompted much hilarity.

[quoththeravyn]

So, in instrument operations, one often finds oneself dialed in to a consultation about some relatively urgent something going on, and we talk, and we decide to order the gadget into safe mode, and then the planners start chatting about how and when to recover and where to pick up in the plan. When the data show that the gadget is in fact in safe mode, automagical processes beep everyone's cell phones, and so you can hear them going off, all within a minute or so, during the telecon where we're already discussing the situation.

[pbristow]

That sounds like a very efficient operation. I wish *I'd* ever got action within 60 seconds on a decision made in a meeting! 60 *days* would in same cases have been a improvement. =:o\

[nanila]

Awesome. I would have to mute so no one could hear my giggling.