Burden of knowledge.

Hypothetically speaking, say this happens…

You get on a conference call in the morning, while at the same time, trying to deal with one of your children. Things go smoothly for a while, then rough, then really rough. So rough that you leave the phone with the conf call going on, to go deal with one of your kids.

By the time things are reasonably resolved, you’ve noticed that the call has ended.  For the most part. There are still 2 people chatting as you get back to paying attention to the call.  They’re chatting about personnel moves and with the way they are talking, it becomes clear that they think they’re the only two people on the line.

There are a lot of “That’s so awesome!” or “You’re too brilliant” or “That’s so classic of you.” going on and one gets a glimpse into how one really moves ahead in this world.

Then the conversation goes back to being social.  Again, if one hangs up now, there’s a double beep to let the people on the line know that someone has left.  This is helpful if people’s cell phones drop a connection and you need to know.  Less helpful if one is trying to discretely leave a call.  Now they’re talking about a weekend with two social events going on.  One the boss has already RSVP’d for, the other thrown by the other party on the line and with seemingly less notice.  The boss says they’ll look for a way out of the other event, because they so much would rather goto the event being thrown by the person on the phone.

Now, you know all the people involved.  Give anyone a heads up on who wants to go to who’s party, or just let thing pieces fall how they may, then make comments afterwards about how attendance was chosen?

Or hang up earlier in the call?