Anyone who wants to be amused at work should sign themselves up for my teleconference calls.

Like how participants from each country are supposed to call their own local telco number in order to save on overseas phone charges, but are instead given only the local telco number of the teleconference-hosting country (and no one complains).

Or how for weeks, a strange untraceable echo has emerged in teleconferences, during which no one can concentrate on the calls (since they are speaking and stopping jerkily, so to be heard over the echo).

Or how there are so many participants in a teleconference that most of the time you need to put your phone on mute (and then when you're required to speak, you forget to un-mute).

Or how sometimes you just know when a participant with a strong accent speaks, that no one else understands him (yes, it's always him). And you have to try to be the tactful asian and pretend to rephrase his statement, just so the others can comprehend.

I'm only glad we're not required to video-conference.