Speakerphone was made for a reason. If, perchance, you have several people sitting around a single phone and they need to all hear what is going on , and everyone needs to be able to speak and participate in the conversation, Speaker-phone is just the invention for you. It's role ...
08-24-2007, 02:24 PM
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| Dirty Liberal  Democrat South Jersey 
| Speaker Phone has a purpose Speakerphone was made for a reason. If, perchance, you have several people sitting around a single phone and they need to all hear what is going on , and everyone needs to be able to speak and participate in the conversation, Speaker-phone is just the invention for you. It's role is no-doubt critical to the modern office. However there are some instances where use of a speaker phone might bother people around you and actually serves no useful purpose. For instance: If you are just some halfwit sitting in an office who wants to call another halfwit in the office immediately adjacent to yours, pick up the fucking handset and call them. Do not activate your speaker phone and shout into it, whilst the halfwit in the other office shouts back into his. Better yet. stand up and walk the 5 feet into the other office and have a face to face conversation. Talking face to face makes for more effective communication. If you want to check your voicemail...Pick up your fucking handset. No one wants to hear all of your voice mails and beep beep boop boop as you cycle through the menus. You never know when you significant other might leave a dirty message for you anyway. nix the speakerphone you jerk. If you want to talk to your wife about when to pick up the kids, what you might be having for dinner, your upcoming colonoscopy... PICK UP THE FUCKING HANDSET. Speaker phone is not for the lazy clod who simply doesn't feel like putting forth the effort to pick up a 5 oz handset. It's for meetings and groups. if you use speaker phone for anything other than a conference call, you need to be beaten within an inch of your life with the very handset that you refuse to use. | ||||
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08-24-2007, 03:01 PM
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| Perpetual Noob Independent
| WL's guide to cube etiquitte... | ||||
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08-24-2007, 03:05 PM
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| Braccae tuae aperiuntur.  Reform Party NJ
| When stupid people from work call me on my day off to tell me stupid things I sometimes put them on speakerphone so other people can hear how stupid they are. | ||||
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08-24-2007, 03:06 PM
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| Dirty Liberal Democrat South Jersey
| Originally Posted by JaJae That's an acceptable use of speaker phone. 
 You are a fine upstanding member of the office community | ||||
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08-24-2007, 03:06 PM
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| Dirty Liberal Democrat South Jersey
| Originally Posted by Phantom Maybe I should write a book.
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08-24-2007, 03:15 PM
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| Dirty Liberal Democrat South Jersey
| Lesson #2. Mobile phones are called "mobile" for a reason. You can take them with you! Please try to remember your mobile phone when stepping away from your desk. This is a valuable lesson for a several reasons. 1) If you are like most people, you don't have a simple "ring ring" type ringer on your mobile phone. You have something much, much more annoying. Perhaps it's Barry Manilows Copa-cabana, or the Austin Powers theme song. In either case, no one wants to hear it over and over and over again as people futilly try and reach you. 2) People might need to reach you! It might be important. Take your phone so you don't miss the news that the annoying girl from HR got fired. Or that the servers melted down and the boss is running around like a maniac.... Or that there is left over chinese food from the recent lunch meeting sitting in the kitchen. | ||||
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08-24-2007, 03:52 PM
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| tyop speicalist Religion Moderator  Capitalist California
| I use speaker phone to listen to my voice mails.  | ||||
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08-24-2007, 03:53 PM
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| Hamiltonian > Jeffersonian  Libertarian Party DFW
| Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby So does Sheana, but she is in an actual office of her own not a cube
 my phone isn't equipped with speaker phone ... or caller ID ... or the ability to transfer. 
__________________ “The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.” --Alexander Hamilton--  | ||||
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08-24-2007, 03:57 PM
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| Master Debator Election Moderator  Democrat Omaha, NE
| Dont forget the people who leave their lunch in the break room fridge creating a biohazard and wierd smells when you open the door. | ||||
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08-24-2007, 04:07 PM
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| Dirty Liberal Democrat South Jersey
| Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby Stop being a douche. No one wants to hear your voice mails.
"Welcome to Audix, please enter ,... beep beep bop boop. Please enter Beep beep beep boop. You have 2 new messages. Press .. beep beep.... press ..beep.... Hey douche bag! whats up,Hey remember that hooker you killed last night? HAH That was awesome buddy. Good thing you had the company credit card. Catch ya later bud!... good thing everyone on the floor heard your messages! | ||||
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08-24-2007, 04:08 PM
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| Dirty Liberal Democrat South Jersey
| Originally Posted by DosEquis Those douche nuggets! It stinks up the fridge and it takes up space! By the time friday rolls around the fridge is so jam packed full of crap that people just forgot in there, there is no room for my sandwich.
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08-24-2007, 04:10 PM
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| Dirty Liberal Democrat South Jersey
| Originally Posted by Publius
Even if it's in an office.. most of the time people have thier doors open and there are cubes right outside.. and people check thier voicemail at full volume so everyone can hear how important they are when people leave them messages. Oooh look at all of the people who called me! I want everyone to hear so that they can see how important I am! You should totally call up and leave nasty dirty messages on her machine. That will teach her. | ||||
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08-24-2007, 04:17 PM
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| Braccae tuae aperiuntur. Reform Party NJ
| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 I put on my wizard cap..
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08-24-2007, 04:31 PM
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| Dirty Liberal Democrat South Jersey
| Originally Posted by JaJae
Hey Sheena, hows it going. Look, I went out to get that 15" black dildo you wanted but they only had a 12", will that be big enough? I know you like them big. Listen I'm in the store right now and I need you to call me back so I can buy this huge dildo for you. This huge realistic veiny black 12" dildo. Love ya! click. | ||||
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08-24-2007, 04:36 PM
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| Braccae tuae aperiuntur. Reform Party NJ
| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 I've been going through my e-mail and I've gotten the hundreds of anonymous messages you've sent me and finally decided to take the hint. I went to my doctor today and I got the perscription you've been asking me to get. I figure we can try it out tonight... I love you hun.
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08-24-2007, 07:25 PM
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| Junkie libertarian
| i hate everyone with a nextel. their blue collar cb's are the end of society. | ||||
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08-24-2007, 07:38 PM
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| tyop speicalist Religion Moderator Capitalist California
| Originally Posted by Publius I have my own office at work as well.
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08-24-2007, 07:39 PM
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| tyop speicalist Religion Moderator Capitalist California
| Originally Posted by WickedLou9 It's no different than an answering machine. Those things play on a speaker. Do you kick your mother in the face every time she plays your messages on the answering machine? C'mon now. Listening to voice mails on speaker phone isn't a big deal.
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08-24-2007, 08:43 PM
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| Master Debator Election Moderator Democrat Omaha, NE
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08-25-2007, 08:16 AM
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| Dirty Liberal Democrat South Jersey
| Originally Posted by Dumpy Dooby my mother listening to her machine at home doesn't disturb 20 people from doing thier work.
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