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Is what I SHOULD have said today.
So I'm on a conference call with the president of our company, our sales person and a client. We're going over a statement of work for a site visit next week. It was pretty much, 'Here's what we need...' and the prez saying, 'We can do that...Yes, that can be done.' We were going over items on a document that they had sent us, and just going down the list with no problems.
I was paying attention. I swear. For the first 20 minutes at least. But really, no one was talking to me. I was just there as a backup. Then I lost my concentration. And all of the sudden I heard the Prez say, 'Yeah, we'll definitely look into that. Christine, test this out and we'll work on this later today, ok?'
'OK!' I say.
But I have no idea what he's talking about. No clue. Then there was another thing that he asked me the check into, later on. Which I heard.
So I checked on that second thing, still trying to figure out what the first thing was. I talked to Dan to test it out at the office and he got the same results that I did. I also tell Dan my predicament, and he laughs. I told him to tell the Prez about the results that he got. The Prez is appreciative, then tells Dan, 'Tell her to call me later and we'll work on the other thing.'
WHAT OTHER THING!
Argh. Wish me luck on my phone call!
I'll probably just have to suck it up and say that I have no idea what he wanted me to look into. *sigh*
And some good news...Fata and Melanie are coming into town tomorrow! It will be so awesome to see people from home!
Update: Called. Left voicemail. *whew*
Posted by Yano at March 17, 2004 02:29 PMWhen he calls, don't tell him you didn't hear what he said in the meeting. Just ask him to "refresh your memory." He'll think you're trying to switch gears mentally from whatever it was you were doing when he called to the subject of the call. Even if he knows what you're really doing, he's probably done it a thousand times himself so he has no right to say anything.
Posted by: Trisha on March 17, 2004 03:17 PMnow THIS i can relate to. 7 hour conference call, no. space out and not know what's going on... unfortunately yes.
i'd just claim ignorance. there was something else?
Posted by: chris on March 18, 2004 12:04 AMlol.. so what happened next?
Posted by: Chariya on March 18, 2004 08:40 AM