{"id":1771,"date":"2011-10-31T10:23:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T10:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2011-10-31T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T10:23:45","slug":"i-hate-conference-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/i-hate-conference-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate conference calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day filled with endless conference calls.\u00a0 I really enjoy talking to people and <a title=\"collaborating\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelsampson.net\/\">collaborating<\/a>, but my current experiences with conference calls\u00a0are driving me up the wall. Dialling into a room where\u00a0people can&#8217;t be bothered to move close to the microphones. \u00a0Hearing a supplier try to present from a train.\u00a0 Somebody putting\u00a0the call\u00a0on hold, meaning the conference call\u00a0got stopped because we all had to listen to hold music.<\/p>\n<p>And really? I know <a title=\"wireless headsets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plantronics.com\/uk\/product\/cs500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wireless headsets<\/a> are great, but please take it off before you go to the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Surely it just takes a bit of respect for your colleagues on the call &#8211; a large amount of whom will be <a title=\"remote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.plantronics.com\/us\/howwework\/assets\/chart-work-local.jsp?height=500&amp;width=700&amp;TB_iframe=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remote<\/a> &#8211; to change your behaviour.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a lot of people on these calls and you&#8217;re wasting all their time. Learn the new etiquette needed to navigate the <a title=\"new way of working\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flexibility.co.uk\/homezone\/news.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new way of working<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day filled with endless conference calls.\u00a0 I really enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}