Question: How do you know if you are in an ultimate boring conference call?

Answer: When someone who’s eavesdropping by accident ask you to end it.

I am stuck in a 90 minutes conference call and it is the most BORING one I have ever participated in. We are negotiating a very dry logistic contract and the business folk from my side (Miss Boring) is leading the call.

Miss Boring sits on the 9th floor and I sit on the 10th floor. And although both of us are on the same call, she refuses to sit with me on the 10th floor to take the call together. I offered to go to the 9th floor but she gave some silly excuses why I shouldn’t. Anti-social as well as boring! (Maro says maybe she was being considerate and didn’t want to pass me her boringness.)

So Miss Boring took the call from the 9th floor, and I took the call from 10th floor. Halfway thru the call, while I was sleeping, Bibi (my lunch buddy who sits next to Miss Boring on the 15th floor) emailed me.

Bibi wrote: "How boring is your topic of conversation?" (She knows I’m on the call with Miss Boring)

I was sleeping so didn’t see the email so didn’t reply.

She emailed (shouted) again, "SERIOUSLY!!"

I jumped at the red blinking lights from my blackberry and replied: "It's very, very, very, painful if you must know! Zzz… "

Bibi : "Look. I am actually falling asleep listening here … HELLO !!! Please end the call …"

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