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Kermit power
Original Poster
14,979 posts
83 months
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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?
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Carthage
3,010 posts
14 months
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AyBee
5,323 posts
72 months
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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...! 
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miniman
16,055 posts
132 months
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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.
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ZOLLAR
16,313 posts
43 months
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Waiting at traffic lights I take the car out of gear and back into gear until lights change.
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Geezer-20v
819 posts
64 months
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ZOLLAR said: Waiting at traffic lights I take the car out of gear and back into gear until lights change. This, whilst in queues of traffic as well. Nice to know it's not just me.
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TackleburyUk
353 posts
60 months
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Hate plugs being left on if nothing's plugged in... Have to turn them off.
People's labels on clothes sticking out. Will approach total strangers and tell them.
Not overly impressed by fat ugly birds either...
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Mafioso
2,137 posts
84 months
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I indicate on roundabouts...
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Changedmyname
5,005 posts
51 months
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Carthage said: Like I'd tell you. 
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james_tigerwoods
10,856 posts
67 months
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Pegs have to be used in pairs - firstly colour and type, when the pairs are done, then colour, then type - pegging out clothes can take a while. I have also been known to re peg things my OH had hung out...
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AyBee
5,323 posts
72 months
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james_tigerwoods said: Pegs have to be used in pairs - firstly colour and type, when the pairs are done, then colour, then type - pegging out clothes can take a while. I have also been known to re peg things my OH had hung out...  Superb!
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Justin Cyder
6,570 posts
19 months
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I can spin a pen 360 degrees in one go on my hand horizontally. And I do. All the time.
Drives colleagues mad. But then I own the business so they can do one. (Also, not powerfully built).
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Kermit power
Original Poster
14,979 posts
83 months
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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.
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Pints
14,759 posts
64 months
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I find it difficult to sit down when I'm talking on the phone.
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Manicminer
2,601 posts
67 months
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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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King Herald
18,480 posts
86 months
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TackleburyUk said: Hate plugs being left on if nothing's plugged in... Have to turn them off. Sockets for me, I hate having sockets turned on if nothings plugged in. 
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redtwin
5,992 posts
52 months
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Bed sheets have to be smoothed before I get in.
Hate when people show concern for me, e.g stub toe or cut hand etc. I cry out in pain, then get really annoyed if anyone asks if I am OK or offers to look at injury. A that moment I just want to be left alone and ignored.
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GTIR
19,245 posts
136 months
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Carthage said: Like I'd tell you. Ooh, I know, me, me! Your insistence to reply to every thread even though you've no need to?
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Jasandjules
45,858 posts
99 months
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I tend to walk about when I am trying to present... It's a thing I have to concentrate very hard to stop....
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0a
8,528 posts
64 months
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Out walking if there is a stile and a gate I always use the stile no matter how inconvenient.
I have NEVER used the gate when a stile is available. I feel something very bad would happen if I did.
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