Common Things We Do During Office Work Calls

By Author: Krishna Yerra
Total Articles: 32

The calls could be with the client, with company’s bosses, with team manager or even within the team as well. Some calls are scheduled and some jump in unplanned. Respecting its long history, we collected a few common activities we keep on doing while being a part of such phone calls

1. When the call attendees are of foreign language, we generally keep on bugging our colleagues to explain what is going on, in our language.
2. Mostly if there is any tense situation or if meeting is not going in our way, we end up mocking the other caller, sheepishly.
3. When there is a long conversation with clients and doesn’t seem to be ending soon, without thinking much we give them affirmative action to do the task. But when we realize we usually end up in real trouble.
4. When the other person in the call asks us about the thing which we are not aware of or are not sure of, we usually ask our colleague about it and he will explain it on a piece of paper.
5. When there is a boring meeting going on and we are not very much interested, even if there is any small communication glitch also, we don’t highlight it and pretend as if we have heard and understood it.
6. During conference call, we keep the conversation in mute and move out of the place to do some other work.
7. Modulations in our accent is another activity included in work calls. Specially, when we are looking to impress the client we try to bring new accent in our conversation.
8. A not so acceptable scenario seen in the call is when we start cross arguing with our colleagues. More worry part is when it is a client call.
9. There will be situations when we have to submit some reports and at the same time there is a call to attend. In most of the cases, we end up ignoring or re-scheduling the call to finish-up the reports.
10. Multi-tasking is also applied while on a work call. Most importantly seen scenarios are like attending second call or whatsapping without giving full concentration to the call.

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