Just Another Long Conference Call Meeting~~~

I think one of the thing that I learn when I join this company was teleconferencing...
As a IT support for an international bank I will need to talk to users from all over the world...
That's why the conference over the phone thingy come in...
It's actually quite fun to talk to people from other country...
Listen to their accent and trying to figure out which country they are from...
But when it come to people barking over the phone for hours...
Which there was once by the stupid Singapore Indian...
Thing will never be fun again... T_T...

Today's conference call was about the Disasters Recovery Drill...
It was just an exercise to make sure that regardless of fire or flood or tornado or earthquake or tsunami or terrorist attack or mars attack or earth hit by comet ever happen to data center...
All applications supporting the bank will still working as usual...
And that is why too today conference call is really a big one...
As I called in the conference... My attendance was announced by the pre-recorded sweet voice of a girl...

Sweety: Now attending... Headmaster from Malaysia...

And then for the next half an hour...
The sweet voice of this unknown girl is all that I heard...

Sweety: Now attending... Jin KiaShu from Singapore...
Sweety: Now attending... SiNasi Kangkang from Indonesia...
Sweety: Now attending... Lau TakWah from Hong Kong...
Sweety: Now attending... Sushi Sashimi from Japan...
Sweety: Now attending... Sawathi Nakap from Thailand...
Sweety: Now attending... Kunawarshanjathi Aashiramasamy from India...
Sweety: Now attending... Banyak bin Minyak from Brunei...
Sweety: Now attending... Nancy Maria from Philipine...
Sweety: Now attending... Money Qian from China...
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^^... What a meeting... Never attend a meeting with so many people before...

Anyway... More people mean more mouth more noise more trouble more headache...
Because some of them really do not have what so call as conference call ethics...
Some will never read the agenda or document that attached together with the invitation email and keep asking on things that already given to them...
Some that already read the document but they were so Kia-Shu to re-confirm everything written in the document again...
Some speak so loud that as if all of us are deaf or something...
Some I think they have two or more mouth because they can talk to some one else while conference call with us...
Some got really short term memory lost which they totally forgot about the purpose of the meeting and arguing on unrelated subject...
And some even hold us to pick up another incoming line...
Leaving us with his loud and boring call-waiting music that looping repeatedly... Suck lar... T_T...

So basically... Only 15 minutes of the meeting is really discussing on the DR Drill...
The other 1 hour and 45 minutes are bullshit that I listed above...
Still I departed the meeting after 2 hours...
I wonder how long it could really go if they are given all the time of the world...
For eternity perhaps...

That's why I always say...
A meeting is a talking exercise of a group of people which they will argue for long hours and achieve no conclusion in the end...