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Kermit power
Original Poster
14,878 posts
82 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
2,975 posts
13 months
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AyBee
5,248 posts
71 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
16,012 posts
131 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
16,230 posts
42 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
810 posts
63 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
345 posts
59 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
2,130 posts
83 months
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I indicate on roundabouts...
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Changedmyname
4,747 posts
50 months
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Carthage said: Like I'd tell you. 
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james_tigerwoods
10,752 posts
66 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
5,248 posts
71 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
6,143 posts
18 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
14,878 posts
82 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
14,698 posts
63 months
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I find it difficult to sit down when I'm talking on the phone.
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Manicminer
2,562 posts
66 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
18,350 posts
85 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
5,857 posts
51 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
19,078 posts
135 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
45,423 posts
98 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
8,438 posts
63 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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