The funniest meeting I was in was one where 5 people were at the client out of town and 3 of us were stuck on a conference line in the fishbowl. I had slid a piece of paper across the table that said “ROBUST”, as they kept saying it at the other end. My coworker looked confused. A minute later they said it. Then again. Then again. At this point he was laughing so hard we had to go on mute. Then the other girl in the room wants to know what’s so funny. We show her. They keep saying it. Over and over.
joinme: Sounds like the movie Super Troopers where they kept saying “meow”.
This went on for an hour. The girl was shouting at the phone (on mute): “If everything’s robust, then NOTHING is!” That was a year ago. To this day, we still crack each other up by saying “robust” in the hallway. It’s our “rosebud”.
 
The shouting at the phone was the inspiration for the tweet “In space no on e can hear you scream. On a conference call no one can see you give them the finger.”
joshua.w: Unless it’s over Skype. :/
MeetingBoy: Oh, yes, Joshua, that is why I absolutely refuse to install a web cam. I will not do video conferencing!
joshua.w: Mandated. Mine usually points at the floor though.

from chat:
czmilosz: We were doing a demo for a prospect, and the username the head of dev used was POOPSTAIN1.
Billy: Had porn show up when they went to search Google. That was pretty good.

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