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That's why I made my work buy me a wireless headset.
That way when I'm locked in a 5 hour call for something I have no input on or care about I can at least get up and make myself a few cups of coffee
You are living my nightmare.
I'm living myown nightmare
now wander the space with a golf club or baseball bat
Do you ever have to note or recall information afterwards? Because for me it wouldn't be the sitting in a call for 5 hours part that would be the problem, it would be someone asking me to tell them anything that happened in it that would be the problem. I couldn't even tell you who was in it
I have trigger words that snap my attention into the call. I support the infrastructure for a cloud app. Most calls are on the app layer so I couldn't care less. It's only when the infrastructure gets mentioned I need to listen.
Yes I do take notes
What headset are you using? I've got a big ass nose cancelling headset I use on my personal computer, but it's a bit much for work - especially since I have to be on camera occasionally.
Random Microsoft ones the work gave me. They are surprisingly small and comfortable
So you're telling me there's are jobs where i don't have to do anything for 5 hours at a time?
No there are jobs that have 5 hour meetings while you watch your backlog pile up an extra 5 hours
Ah, i understand the pain now.
At that point I unplug my headphones and let the speakers do it so I can wander the room and not be literally tied down.
They won't give us wireless ones unless there's some kind of medical exception... The managers get them but we don't. I would buy my own but every time I try to use any of my own equipment IT freaks the fuck out about it
We learned the magic words at my company.
Health and safety
Say that and they back down.
My work take h&s super serious. He'll just today the upper management held a 90 min meeting right across lunch time that included a segment on how important it is that you get away from your PC during lunch.