Posted by Julio Hernandez-Miyares under Dogs, Pet Peeves
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That is what you mostly hear when at the many teleconference meetings I attend on a regular basis. In fact I hear the same thing at in person meetings as many individuals bring their PCs to “work” during the course of the meeting. It has become a pet peeve of mine as if you are not the Project Manager and taking notes (how they got that unenviable responsibility I don’t know but better them then me , then you should be listening intently to the on-going conversation and not incessantly im’ing or blogging or reviewing the number of worthless stock options or whatever.
In fact, I believe one of the major contributors to the lack of decisions or even agreement on what a decision was when one is made is that most people attending the teleconference are not paying a wit of attention to what is going on in the proceedings.
Irrelevant picture of one of my dogs.

As an aside ,Can’t imagine how difficult it was to grab a copy of this AOL Pictures image on my computer. Downloading to desktop doesn’t work whether on a MAC or a Windows machine. I have been using Flickr to maintain my photos. That statement is a stretch as I only recently purchased a digital camera but now I take it with me all over and takes photos of skyscrapers, subway stations, dogs, countryside whatever. I tried out a free Flick Account and within one week I had upgraded to the Pro version for approximately $25 a year. Something like 2 gigabytes upload storage per month! Quite easy to do the basics including selecting an uploaded photo, writing some text and creating a blog entry directly from the Flickr site. Now if only AOL Picture could do that!