This is so soothing that I fell asleep to it.
Conference call simulator
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#72Do people still do conference calls nowadays? Using Hangouts has kind of eliminated the conference call problem for me. Audio quality is great, you can see who is speaking or know who wants to speak if the mute icon disappears.
You seem to be trying to make an anecdote about personal use. This website is mimicking corporate conference calls.. and yes, companies take regular phone calls because they are collectively aware that expecting everyone to contact their business using Google Hangouts would be silly.
I dunno, we used Hangouts at Google and it was fine for meetings, though it did have some enhancements on top. It was possible to call in or out, though I never saw that feature used except "I wonder what happens if..."
Ultimately the problems with these meetings involve the social problems. Someone is absorbed in thought so they don't notice that a more quiet person in another room wants to talk. They point at the screen, not realizing that the other office can't see that. They point using their mouse cursor not realizing that it's too small to see on the screen. Or the more mundane; not having an agenda, inviting too many people, not inviting enough people, etc.
And, of course, "we're getting kicked out".
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#73I could totally see this as a museum exhibit. Where I work, we regularly have people dial in from a downtown office and almost every call features sirens in the background. Needs more sirens.
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#74Dystopian and soul-crushing, just like the real thing.
The visuals remind me of Koyaanisqatsi - I'd love Philip Glass as a soundtrack.
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#75This is, simultaneously:
* an all-too-realistic snapshot of corporate life
* a sobering commentary on the state of conference call norms and terribly interoperating related technologies
* if Bladerunner met Office Space
* a playbook on how to respond to various real-world conference call mishaps
* the funniest thing I've seen in some time
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#76For some reason the desktop version has some background music (mobile does not it seems?) which makes it so much more relaxing.
Relaxing? I'm pretty sure it was meant to be eerie and sinister.
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#77I was only able to get through about 30 seconds before cringing, but does it eventually include someone who spends 10 minutes eating an apple dipped in dorito chips?
It's always the person who has a $500 microphone set up too, so you get to not only hear them chew, but you can even hear the inner workings of their esophagus swallowing every bite.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even with Skype or hangout, someone at home always has a bandwidth issue so no-cam, also constant echo issues and typing sound almost triggers PTSD for me.
I've lost count how many meetings I been in where I completely lost what the speaker was saying because someone was clickly clacking on their keyboard the whole time. The requisite "Whomever is typing please mute yourself!", never works because the typist is never paying attention. There should be an app that logs you into your mandatory conference calls so you can get the checkmark for attending, but completely isol…
Zoom allows the call owner to mute everyone. That has been great for killing the typers.
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#79I was only able to get through about 30 seconds before cringing, but does it eventually include someone who spends 10 minutes eating an apple dipped in dorito chips? It's always the person who has a $500 microphone set up too, so you get to not only hear them chew, but you can even hear the inner workings of their esophagus swallowing every bite.
> does it eventually include someone who spends 10 minutes eating an apple dipped in dorito chips?
My favourite was a conference call on which, for ten minutes, we heard someone’s three year olds puking, crying, screaming and crapping themselves while the mom tried to clean up with the mute button accidentally disengaged.
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#80Reminds me of this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNz82r5nyUw Makes me laugh every time.
That one is great. I totally lost it at the part with the dog. Scary and accurate.