I amazed that some people remember to breathe so it doesn't surprise me at all that they are outwitted by a mute button.
Zoe: Is there any way I'm gonna get out of this with honor and dignity? Wash: You're pretty much down to ritual suicide, lambie-toes.
'War Stories'
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NoiseDesign - Apr 05, 2011 1:31:28 pm PDT #19145 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 1:48:43 pm PDT #19146 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm still not entirely sure why anyone puts the whole of a conference call on hold, to music. Unless it's you're meeting, and you really want to drag everything to a screeching halt in your absence, DON'T DO IT. IT'S RUDE. Use your mute button, or hang up and call back in.
NoiseDesign - Apr 05, 2011 1:50:54 pm PDT #19147 of 30000
Our wings are not tired
The hold button is big and red, the mute button could be almost anything and someone might have to hunt for it.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 1:52:02 pm PDT #19148 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
- 6
§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 2:02:22 pm PDT #19149 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hold button and the mute button are exactly the same size and shape on our phone systems.
I never bother learning how to mute a con call on the con call software, because we use too many providers and it's confusing.
PLUS I HAVE A MUTE BUTTON. I use it all the time anyway.
Daisy Jane - Apr 05, 2011 2:03:57 pm PDT #19150 of 30000
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
We have it in the rooms, but not the phones.
Zenkitty - Apr 05, 2011 3:17:06 pm PDT #19151 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I'm always paranoid that my mute button won't work, and people will hear my cat yowling or me blowing my nose.
quester - Apr 05, 2011 3:23:05 pm PDT #19152 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Wait, you let you cat blow your nose?
Perhaps I misread that.
meara - Apr 05, 2011 3:36:20 pm PDT #19153 of 30000
Yeah, I usually use my phone's mute button rather than fiddle with/remember the concall's version ("is it star six or pound six?")
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sarameg - Apr 05, 2011 3:37:21 pm PDT #19154 of 30000
My last home phone didn't have a mute, though the conference line did. And of course, whenever I'd be on the phone with the maximum number of people who don't know me personally, the cats would go BONKERS with noisemaking, right as I'd unmuted (complicated, had to pull phone away from face and hit *6) or before I'd had a chance to. Loved the time Loki and Devi got into it RIGHT NEXT TO MY FACE. Or when MK got in mine and let out one of his yowls.
OTOH, whenever the mission head called in from home, he was also herding his kids, and since he needed to be able to break in at any point, we learned over that summer that his kid HATES OATMEAL DAD and doesn't like matching socks.
So I guess we're even.