Corporate BS
April 23, 2008 at 2:43 pm by: John Phillips
April 23–speakerphone: A phone feature utilized by obnoxious jerks to exhibit their “importance” by calling people and announcing that not only are they calling, but five other people with notebooks at the ready are “in the room,” eavesdropping on the conversation; a particularly evil tool in the hands of people who occupy a cube, as they will torture their cubemates with loud, irrelevant, and “hands-free” conversations; also, origin of the “speakerphone answer,” the phenomenon in which the recipient of the call, upon hearing the call concerns a matter he or she cares about, actually lifts the receiver and continues the conversation in a tone of interest and enthusiasm.
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 pm under
I have a co-worker in a different market that always calls on the speaker phone with someone else in the room. It is quite comical, but also gets annoying. Especially when they try to pretend that no one else is in the room and they get caught in the lie. I try to return the favor by calling them on speaker with other people in the room.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:14 amIt can become a vicious circle. What annoys me the most is that you can’t hear as well on a speaker phone. If you’ve got them on both ends, people are constantly asking for someone to repeat what he/she said. Sometimes, the use of a speakerphone is unavoidable. Using one for every conversation is indeed “Corporate BS.”
April 25th, 2008 at 8:23 am