The brighter side of lockdown

Thehooperman

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Towards the end of a 5 hour (yes 5 long, tedious hours) meeting on Teams, I got rather frustrated by one attendee who kept asking stupid questions in an attempt to impress some senior managers who were also on the call.

I had tried to mute said person to no avail but then I discovered that there is a magic button called "remove from meeting" and it magically removed said person without notifying them nor telling them who had activated the button.

After three removals said person didn't ask any more questions and the briefing finished only 15 minutes late.
 

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Towards the end of a 5 hour (yes 5 long, tedious hours) meeting on Teams, I got rather frustrated by one attendee who kept asking stupid questions in an attempt to impress some senior managers who were also on the call.

I had tried to mute said person to no avail but then I discovered that there is a magic button called "remove from meeting" and it magically removed said person without notifying them nor telling them who had activated the button.

After three removals said person didn't ask any more questions and the briefing finished only 15 minutes late.
If only it was as easy as that in 'real life' meetings.
 

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

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Towards the end of a 5 hour (yes 5 long, tedious hours) meeting on Teams, I got rather frustrated by one attendee who kept asking stupid questions in an attempt to impress some senior managers who were also on the call.

I had tried to mute said person to no avail but then I discovered that there is a magic button called "remove from meeting" and it magically removed said person without notifying them nor telling them who had activated the button.

After three removals said person didn't ask any more questions and the briefing finished only 15 minutes late.

My problem was students also realised this was an option and spent the entire lesson kicking each other out!

There are ways around it...
 

Thehooperman

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Nice if a little muddy canal towpath walk to here from Norbury this morning.

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Lucy

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That must be north of Norbury? We sometimes walk to the pub there along the canal but I've never seen that.
 

Thehooperman

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That must be north of Norbury? We sometimes walk to the pub there along the canal but I've never seen that.

It's where the A519 crosses the canal just Newport side of Woodeaves.

The telegraph pole in the middle of the arch intrigued me.
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Thehooperman

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Think that was on a TV show last Monday/Tuesday on BBC. Not sure what it was called but essentially it was a bloke travelling on a canal boat during the summer. Surprisingly interesting

It was on Wednesday at 19.30 I think and I posted on the what are you watching thread that it was on then I got distracted doing something else and missed it.
 

BobClay

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When I worked for BT in 1988 I was seconded for a couple of weeks to accompany a fibre optic surveyor covering the route from Rugely to the Potteries. I drove and climbed down into duct spaces while he pushed the wheel along the London Road and then up through Hilderstone. What amazed me was all the extra ducting space that had been put in by the Post Office many years before. Clearly somebody had allowed for a lot of expansion long before fibre optics were even thought of (they were reasonably new in 1988.) Many runs had four ducts, three of them empty, with pull strings fitted.
I often wonder if BT allowed for that sort of expansion when they were putting in new infrastructure. At that time I was working for BT on three month temporary contracts of which I did four. When they offered me a permanent job, I disappeared over the horizon toward the darkness of Cheltenham.
 
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Mudgie

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When I worked for BT in 1989 I was seconded for a couple of weeks to accompany a fibre optic surveyor covering the route from Rugely to the Potteries. I drove and climbed down into duct spaces while he pushed the wheel along the London Road and then up through Hilderstone. What amazed me was all the extra ducting space that had been put in by the Post Office many years before. Clearly somebody had allowed for a lot of expansion long before fibre optics were even thought of (they were reasonably new in 1989.) Many runs had four ducts, three of them empty, with pull strings fitted.
I often wonder if BT allowed for that sort of expansion when they were putting in new infrastructure. At that time I was working for BT on three month temporary contracts of which I did four. When they offered me a permanent job, I disappeared over the horizon toward the darkness of Cheltenham.
But you can't tell us too much about GCHQ ?
 
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