manifesto: conference call hold music must die

if it had happened to me only once today, i would have let it slide. but this is twice. shame on you!

if you are a meeting organizer, and you actually want people to attend your dial-in meeting, you need to meet one of the following criteria:

  1. configure your conference call dial-in # so that it does not play hold music at your participants until you, the master of all you survey, activate the call.
  2. why are you denying your participants the opportunity to talk amongst themselves until you arrive? you’re an egotistical jerk. turn that off, too.
  3. shouldn’t YOU be the first person to call into your own meeting? get your primadonna ass on the phone first.

now that i think about it, you should be doing at least 2 of these things. now. NOW.

3 Responses to “manifesto: conference call hold music must die”

  1. Triple the price they get charged on per song play.. perhaps they will have a day of silence..

  2. no, sadly, the music being played is easy listening from the 60′s & 70′s. probably long since worthy of charging royalties.

  3. The IRS seems to not gotten new hold music for a decade, according to my boss. It’s already driving me nuts and I’ve only been calling for three years. I put it on speakerphone and anyone walking into my office knows that I’m on hold with the IRS. Grr.

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