So today I'm logged into a company meeting via a conference call and webmeeting. There's about 70 people logged into the call, not counting the people who are gathered in conference rooms at the main offices. When the meeting request was sent out, there was a note to make sure not to put your phone on hold while in the meeting, because then the people in the meeting would hear your hold music.

Of course, during the meeting someone puts their phone on hold, hold music comes on, and we can't hear anything. Luckily, the guilty party came back after about 10 seconds.

It was a pretty long meeting, with a few powerpoint slides and a lot of presentations. Pretty much everyone had their phones on mute, except for the presenters. Every now and then there'd be someone who forgot to put their phone on mute so we could hear them shuffling around, but the presenter (or another person in the meeting) would remind people to put on their mute.

2 hours into the meeting, I hear a noise on the phone. Was someone blowing their nose? The presenter kept on going. The noise came again, and it really sounded like someone was blowing their nose. After the 5th time, the presenter was silent. Then I could hear laughter from the room that the presenter was in. The sound kept on coming. Only until people started giggling did I realize what that loud, rhythmic sound was. The presenter said, "Hello? Are you giving me a hint? Am I boring you?"

IT WAS SNORING!

Someone fell asleep during the meeting and didn't have their phone on mute.

Too bad we couldn't figure out who it was. There was a lot of laughter, but as the snoring progressed, it got uncomfortable - there was no way we could hear the presenter with the snoring going on. It was getting annoying. So everyone was trying to devise a plan, maybe logging everyone off then reconnecting, and the snoring stopped.

Yes, they woke up. And boy, they're so lucky we don't know who they are!

Posted by Yano at August 8, 2006 11:47 AM

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