You Are on a Long Boring Conference Call....

[Norm]

...and you're not really needed other than for ad hoc support. Let's say as a Phone a Friend.

What do you do? What is your go-to game to play on the laptop? Do you just surf? Do you walk around the house? Work on the bike?

We have a go-live right now that is like watching paint dry and I am in need of a new game to play while these calls drag on.

 

[rottin']

Text @Magic Every piece of parental advice you've acquired one letter at a time

 

[w_b]

I go fishing. @Patrick can confirm.

 

[JimN]

I'm fortunate to not have too many calls like that, but when I do I usually just surf the Internet or do other work. Sometimes I'll do laundry, wash the dishes, and/or walk around the house putting stuff away and doing general cleanup.

 

[Cole]

I do refresh this forum an unnecessary amount of times. And then accomplish other work in between

 

[clarkenstein]

I do other work I have to do. When I’m burnt out, like I am now, I do Duolingo.

 

[Red Mosquito]

Same as @clarkenstein, but surf the web instead of games. I try to fold laundry or other useful things at times too, but I'm limited by the range of the BT connection for my headset to my laptop (if I undock the laptop the scaling gets fubared and I need to close/re-open all of my 800 windows). Guess I should get teams going on my iPad so I can just carry that to other parts of the house.

There is a Peloton literally 2 feet behind my office chair, guess I could hop my ass on that too....

 

[Patrick]

I go fishing. @Patrick can confirm.

confirmed - i may have answered one of questions.

 

[Patrick]

I'm fortunate to not have too many calls like that, but when I do I usually just surf the Internet or do other work. Sometimes I'll do laundry, wash the dishes, and/or walk around the house putting stuff away and doing general cleanup.

so BAU.

 

[Karate Monkey]

I do other work I have to do. When I’m burnt out, like I am now, I do Duolingo.

Not frequent in my line of work, but I'm practicing the concertina (it's less obvious than an accordion) in my lap, for now.

 

[shrpshtr325]

Iv been known to do the following

- stretch (this worked well when we were in the office too)
- work on bikes (nothing complicated enough to induce cursing if not going smoothly)
- work on other real work
- work on other "pet" projects at home
- walk the dogs ( ok this one is exceedingly rare since we went to teams and can't put our work accounts on personal cell phone)
- refresh the forum an ungodly nber of times bc if my ears are bleeding my eyes may as well be too.

 

[roc]

...and you're not really needed other than for ad hoc support. Let's say as a Phone a Friend.

What do you do? What is your go-to game to play on the laptop? Do you just surf? Do you walk around the house? Work on the bike?

We have a go-live right now that is like watching paint dry and I am in need of a new game to play while these calls drag on.

Wordle?

 

[jmanic]

Fold laundry, practice my dance moves or scour eBay for Betty White collectibles.

 

[iman29]

Alternate between refreshing this forum looking at the bikes for sale that I can’t buy and looking at Bike stuff on FB Marketplace that I can’t buy.

Mostly I go on my phone and end up down the black hole of watching “Reels” off FB which is just like TikTok I hear.

I’ve taken many calls like this during a mindless zwift session as well.

 

[UtahJoe]

I built a mustang 😏

 

[shrpshtr325]

i also did a bunch of xmas shopping online during conference calls.

 

[MissJR]

I am constantly on long boring calls... But they schedule them on deadline days so I actually have work to do while they yap about things with abbreviations I don't understand.

 

[clarkenstein]

Oh! Another one that I do - the Chess.com app. That’s a fun way to pass the time. Great app to learn or re-learn chess if you haven’t played in a while.

 

[serviceguy]

Not frequent in my line of work, but I'm practicing the concertina (it's less obvious than an accordion) in my lap, for now.

I have plenty of those boring meetings, can you suggest where I can buy an accordeon for cheap? Not kidding either (well, a little) I played accordeon for a number of years as a kid. Shipping mine from Italy would be expensive and I'm not sure if it could actually damage it.

 

[Patrick]

Oh! Another one that I do - the Chess.com app. That’s a fun way to pass the time. Great app to learn or re-learn chess if you haven’t played in a while.

Chessnextmove.com

Endgame solutions.