Apologies for the lack of activity here recently, especially with responses to your posts, i’ve been a bit preoccupied. To make up for it it’ll give you one incident from my list of “Potentially Embarrassing Moments”.
PEM #43: A couple of years ago I was working on a development project with a fairly high profile US firm. Much of the communication was done via conference calls, you dial the automatic operator, enter your pass codes and are redirected to the meeting.
On one particular call they had just installed a new system and I was having some difficulty connecting to the conference, so I muttered to myself in frustration “how the fuck does this piece of shit work” not realising that the new system records your voice …
Automatic operator: *beep* ‘how the fuck does this piece of shit work’ has just joined the conference *beep*
Luckily for me I was the first one on the conference or it would be on my Most Embarrassing Moments list.
Éanna, I hope you weren’t the first person to leave the call?
Sometimes (but not always) those systems also repeat the voice tag when the person exits the call!
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Dia dhuit a Chonn.
Cripes, I never thought of that. Well it’s all in the past anyway