Saturday, 12 December 2015

Day 421, Cold conference call pile-up


A thousand conference calls.

1. Please join my meeting

2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended.  Or, call in using your telephone.

Dial +44 (0) 12 3456 7890
Access Code: 987-654-321
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting


Let's dial in and get on.

Female robot voice -  “Waiting for the organiser”

Person A - (drums fingers)

Person B - "Is there an agenda?"

Person D - "Just shared it with you"

Female robot voice - “The organiser has arrived”

voice a - "ok, anyone here"

voice b - "yes I’m here"

voice c - "here too"

voice d - "ye***" (vrooom parp), "yes, just on the M1, listening in" (vrooom)

voice e - "hack, cough, cough, hack, yeah, cough, here, hack"

voice f - "yes, here"

voice g - "here as well, looking for a parking space"

Person A-D - "We're all here"

voice a - "good, ok then, hope you've all had a chance to look at the agenda.  I'll go through it."

voice e - "hack, cough, cough, hack, cough, hack"

Person C - "Just one thing before we start"

voice a - "item 1. I think that's all in order" ... 

Person C - "Just one thing"

voice a - "there shouldn't be any fall out from that as it's standard procedure" ...

Person C - "Just one thing"

voice a - "and any variation will be a result of natural pressures"

voice e - "hack, cough, cough, hack, cough, hack"

voice d - (vrooom parp)

Person C - "JUST ONE THING"

voice a - "Ok"

Person C - "We're seeing some anomalies with the rates, has that been recognised?"

voice a - "yes, we've picked up on that and expect that variation should now diminish."

voice e - "hack, cough, cough, hack, cough, hack"

voice g - (police siren)

Person C - "And how about" ...

voice a - "Item 2.  The refresh rate of the Milton-Repton cycle is now within bounds"

Person C - "And" ...

Person A - "oh ffs"

voice a - "and we should consider this element to no longer be a problem."

voice e - "hack, cough, cough, hack, cough, hack"

voice b - (sound of wood being sawn)

voice a - "is someone doing woodwork?"

voice b - "yeah, sorry, there's a joiner fixing my stairs, I'll move to the other room."

voice c - (sound of an alarm clock going off) "apologies, it's 5am here, partner is getting up."

voice e - "hack, cough, cough, hack, cough, hack"

voice a - "moving on, item 3. The helve-prism has been refactored and the lomax-finklestein parameter is within tolerance, there's a slight blemish on the grove-schism but nothing that a refresh of the cardio-dial shouldn't resolve, there's no outstanding spikiness in the culture logs or the philistine folder, and" ...

Person A - "this voice doesn't have lungs it has a cocking blow hole, take a breath, let someone speak."

voice a - ... "the smolensk valve needs some refreshment and the griddle hole has had the requisite lubrication so I think that's about it, thanks everyone."

Person C - "We've got a further" ...

Female robot voice -  “The organiser has left the meeting.”

voice e - "hack, cough, cough, hack, cough, hack"

voice d - (vroom parp)

Female robot voice -  "voice d has left the meeting."

Female robot voice -  "voice b has left the meeting."

Female robot voice -  "voice c has left the meeting."

voice e - "hack, cough"

Female robot voice -  "voice e has left the meeting."

Person C - "Hang up, this is pointless."



Some boats in conference




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