What odd habits do you have?
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I figured out this afternoon that whenever I'm on a conference call, I have to have something wandering.
Ideally, I'll do it on my mobile and then I can just wander around the office. If I do this, my mind stays fully focused on the call.
If I'm tied to a land-line - sharing a speaker phone, for example - and my feet can't wander around, then my mind does, and I end up completely losing track of the call.
I have no idea why this happens, and I can't seem to do anything about it, try as I might! It also doesn't happen in face to face meetings. I've been on two very similar calls this afternoon, each for an hour. I have no idea what was said on the first one (when I was waiting for my mobile to charge) but can remember every salient detail of the second, despite it not being intrinsically more interesting, just because I was walking around.
Anyone else have any similar (or very different) odd habits?
Ideally, I'll do it on my mobile and then I can just wander around the office. If I do this, my mind stays fully focused on the call.
If I'm tied to a land-line - sharing a speaker phone, for example - and my feet can't wander around, then my mind does, and I end up completely losing track of the call.
I have no idea why this happens, and I can't seem to do anything about it, try as I might! It also doesn't happen in face to face meetings. I've been on two very similar calls this afternoon, each for an hour. I have no idea what was said on the first one (when I was waiting for my mobile to charge) but can remember every salient detail of the second, despite it not being intrinsically more interesting, just because I was walking around.
Anyone else have any similar (or very different) odd habits?
Kermit power said:
I figured out this afternoon that whenever I'm on a conference call, I have to have something wandering.
Ideally, I'll do it on my mobile and then I can just wander around the office. If I do this, my mind stays fully focused on the call.
If I'm tied to a land-line - sharing a speaker phone, for example - and my feet can't wander around, then my mind does, and I end up completely losing track of the call.
I have no idea why this happens, and I can't seem to do anything about it, try as I might! It also doesn't happen in face to face meetings. I've been on two very similar calls this afternoon, each for an hour. I have no idea what was said on the first one (when I was waiting for my mobile to charge) but can remember every salient detail of the second, despite it not being intrinsically more interesting, just because I was walking around.
Anyone else have any similar (or very different) odd habits?
Are you one of our telemarketers? They are utterly unable to make a call without striding round with their little Plantronics headset on. Ideally, I'll do it on my mobile and then I can just wander around the office. If I do this, my mind stays fully focused on the call.
If I'm tied to a land-line - sharing a speaker phone, for example - and my feet can't wander around, then my mind does, and I end up completely losing track of the call.
I have no idea why this happens, and I can't seem to do anything about it, try as I might! It also doesn't happen in face to face meetings. I've been on two very similar calls this afternoon, each for an hour. I have no idea what was said on the first one (when I was waiting for my mobile to charge) but can remember every salient detail of the second, despite it not being intrinsically more interesting, just because I was walking around.
Anyone else have any similar (or very different) odd habits?
Superb!AyBee said:
Please don't tell me you're one of those idiots who walks around the office chatting on the phone and letting everyone else know that you're on the phone and therefore you're very important...! 
Fear not, no!If I know I'm going to be doing much talking, I'll trundle off to the empty corridor by the post room.
Mind you, we're all open plan anyway, so personally I'd rather just get the odd snippet of a conference call a Mr Important than the whole thing from someone sat near me, especially when they're shouting over background noise on their call.
Pints said:
I find it difficult to sit down when I'm talking on the phone.
I get more and more reclined during long phone calls, at home it's not too bad as I just end up with my feet up on the wall or table - at work it's a f
ker as most of the chairs are on wheels an I've ended up on the floor before with the chair shooting across the hangar 
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