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?"