[There are (at least) three satires of the audio conference call experience making the social media rounds lately – in addition to the one in the article below from Slate, there’s David Grady’s comedy routine “A Conference Call” and the recent Tripp & Tyler video “A Conference Call in Real Life”; they’re all not only at times laugh-out-loud funny but illustrate key presence concepts (and their absence).]
[Image: “Win-Win” by Zach Scott; the animated version is here]
“Like David Lynch Directed a Remake of Office Space”
A site that perfectly captures the existential despair of the conference call.
Is there a form of modern communication more frustrating and alienating than the conference call? The inevitable technical glitches, the mysterious background sounds and missed connections, the uncertainty of just who’s on the other end, the jokes that seem hilarious on one end but are met with dead silence on the other—it all combines to create a very particular and identifiable type of white-collar existential dread.… read more. “Funny and thought-provoking satires of the conference call”