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   Anonymous Coward, 23 Nov 2003 @ 8:44am

   
   

   I usually do the obvious thing...

   ...work!
   
   Thank god for speaker phone and mute!
   
   I have two conference calls a week. 1 usually lasts an hour or better and the other anyhwere from 10 to 40 minutes. At a bare minimum, I will fill out my electronic timecard during this period. When fully disengauged by uninteresting topics that don't directly involve me (10 other sites conferenced in at the same time), I return calls, catch up on voice mail, write letters, program and do daily system administrative tasks.
   
   Of course, there's always the smart-ass that googles for solutions to problems other people bring up during the call. That's alway fun, but I usually have too much work to get done.

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   Anonymous Coward, 23 Nov 2003 @ 8:48am

   
   

   I had a co-worker....

   ...who said he banged his wife during conference calls (these were usually initiated from another timezone, so we had to field them early in the moring ~05:30).
   
   Depending on who you ask, this can range from downright unromantic to kinky. His wife didn't speak english very well, so I guess it didn't distract her.
   
   The guy was a perv (suffed pr0n at work and the whole 9 yards), so I never really doubted him.

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