Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Three-minutes of conference call.


Person 1: Beep beep
Person 2: Beep beep. This is Barbara from Emea.
Person 3: Beep beep.
Person 4: Francine from ____________.
Person 5: Beep beep.
Person 6: Beep beep. Static..
Person 1: This is Dave. Barbara are you from ____________?
Person 2: ____________ Emea.
Person 1: Oh, hi. Barbara, have you read the brief.
Person 6: Static.
Person 7: Beep beep.
Person 2: What was that?
Person 1: Have you read the brief?
Person 8: Beep beep.
Person 6: Static.
Person 2: No. I haven’t read the brief.
Person 3: You need to read the brief.
Person 4: ____________ was supposed to take care of that.
Person 5: Beep beep.
Person 6: Static.
Person 1: Well, then let’s get started.
Person 9: Beep beep.
Person 5: How does this impact Vigil and Crusader in the geos?
Person 6: Static.
Person 7: So, it’s agreed, we roll out in Q1?
Person 8: Beep beep.
Person 2: Thanks, ____________.
Person 4: Beep beep.

This is abbreviated from a one-hour call. The salaries on the phone totaled approximately one-million dollars annually. The cost of this to the companies involved with mark-up probably ran in access of $3000.

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