I hate this:
…skype calling
…connection established
A: hello?
…
A: hello, do you hear me?
——–
B: hello?
…
I can hear you but do you hear me?
———
A: hello?
I can hear you but do you hear me?
——
A: please turn on your microphone!
….
B: please turn off your speakers!
….
etc. etc.
…
A: uh, already 4pm, how fast an hour can go by. I have to close the telco. cya.
B: ah, now it works.
repeat until oblivion….
Aeons of human time are spent establishing a skype connection these days. Probably more time than spent on the toilet.
we need a kind of social poem, , dirty limerick or other ritus which socially works to establish a skype audio telco connection.
something like:
A: knock knock?
B: who’s there?
A: your skype connection!
B: speakers turned off, microphone on, lets go, my prom!
or:
“I once knew a man called Enis,
who couldn’t tell speakers from a …”
(Crusty the Clown’s short Limerick adapted)
but with business people its always tricky to establish proper rites. Any ideas?
Pascal Hitzler commented on this post on facebook:
Pascal wrote
“we use “ping” – nothing else if no reply. the appropriate reply is “pong””