A Conference Call in Real Life

[@trippandtyler]

Click that bell, and you'll never be interrupted on a call again.

[@laurelmocklar6951]

Tripp and Tyler Please do a “Zoom meeting in real life”!! We need to laugh.

[@lenkacfk7155]

Tripp and Tyler, it would be awesome if the thumbnails for the next videos wouldn't cover the screen before the first video is over - maybe you could put in end titles, and add the thumbnails there? It's such a shame to lose the hilarious ending because you can't see part of it!

[@salvadordali-gx3nm]

Fast forward 2020 and the whole world is ACTUALLY like this. What a prediction

[@jonathanwhite7642]

This gem couldn't be more timely for our Coronavirus work from home lives!

[@EsperanzaBY]

Jonathan White yes! 🤣🤣🤣

[@filmandphoto11]

Timely? This is a 6 year old video lol

[@ronerel8136]

Hahaha so true 😂 Also I made a zoom sketch, you're welcome to check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGOWnJ-Va9mYp6M

[@js2010ish]

Cant believe this was made 8 years ago and not 2020!

[@chrisclancy1457]

The barking dog kills me every time I watch this

[@jangiew]

Cause it is so accurate or the kids in the background.

[@StaffyDoo]

That was me... more than once 🙄

[@tribblegirl2]

REX, get down!

[@stevec7770]

Martin Cigorraga Me too

[@msphil4life]

Me too!!! Someone had dogs barking and fighting in the background and didn't know that they should and could easily mute from their end. Ugghhhhh!!!!

[@gideonwaxfarb]

I'm a remote worker. This makes me want to cry.

[@plott9653280]

same, my work life always. lol

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

How cute.

[@maureen95]

If we don't laugh, we'd all cry

[@mihirbhende5270]

(Crying) Typing....

[@ronerel8136]

Hahaha so true 😂 Also I made a zoom sketch, you're welcome to check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGOWnJ-Va9mYp6M

[@brianhenson3129]

I've had so many zoom, google, and online experiences like this lately. I laughed so hard this triggered my asthma. When that dude got kicked out into the hall way because his wifi dropped, I lost it, and then when that next guy was on mute, I couldn't breathe, and then when I heard the dog barking--I was done. I held my chest and paused it. And I was watching it alone. My wife and kids ran into the room and I was gasping for air. Yes, I'm serious, hahaha.

[@elbo6941]

Same!

[@nadiashami]

hahahaha. by pointing out the funny parts made me laugh more about this video. i can definitely relate to asthma getting triggered.

[@Sara-dp8jk]

😂😂😂

[@ShurThing]

This is dead on from all of our calls. The only thing missing from our world here at work is "Can you see my screen...? No, you're not sharing it yet".

[@StephenYang]

At least no one is calling in from their bathroom at home...

[@OhSnapItsMaddyB]

LOL the fact that this is 8 years old & still accurate 😂😂

[@marcp.1752]

It's timeless !

[@iawn]

yes and just wait for when they sell you holographs or why not just pay us to do the whole thing for you with AI - last human to leave, please switch off the lights?

[@siuguy80]

Haha 10 years old and is still my life, all day every day

[@云登]

Now that everyone is working from home from the virus, I'm living through all of these every single day.

[@mazadancoseben4818]

Terrible, isn't it?

[@findingrush]

You also forgot the crying child in the background, the person who is always driving, the person who talks to someone else without muting themselves, etc. But this video killed it!

[@outdrs10]

Now you need the guy that talks so far from the mic you can't quite understand him. You crank the volume up, and then the overly loud guy chimes in.

[@HDL_CinC_Dragon]

+outdrs10 Every. Single. Time. My office is full of the overly-loud types. They're quite literally shouting into their extremely fancy high sensitivity conference-intended phones. Their side of the discussion can heard throughout the entire building...

[@DragonsAreHungry]

yep, got a colleague like that, he speaks so silently you can´t hear him on the phone unless you turn your volume to the max and even then it´s hard :-D

[@kiddo9355]

In regular group calls, it’s like the person (usually me) who randomly screams directly into the speaker

[@marionnelson7986]

And the people who move their head from side to side using a mike with no awareness.

[@trippandtyler]

Every conference call ever.

[@kendrakroll]

hysterical. thanks for the day brightener! --@PortaPocketGal

[@ej13591]

Every distance learning class ever. Awesomesauce!

[@Michichael]

Especially the part about the recap e-mail that could have replaced the meeting. FFS I hate wasting time in meetings.

[@SlimWiggins]

Someone should have shown up in pajamas

[@craigtesterd6136]

Michichael that is the part that infuriates me too, if the whole thing could have been handled by email, then why wasn't it handled by email?

[@cyberon5239]

Heavy breathing. You forgot heavy breathing.... "Could someone PLEASE mute that guy?"

[@Tracymmo]

Or snoring.

[@neverumindwho]

Exactly - at least one heavy breather on nearly every conference call I've ever been on!

[@ANYA.RIZALI]

How cute.

[@JohnManoahStephen]

The apple cruncher.

[@rodU65]

Haha. Every time. Also in big meeting no one know who is the one doing the noice 🤣🤣

[@wayneporter2037]

I love Beth's opening "awkward" lines. She pulls it off really well.... Classic

[@thomasi2518]

Hilarious, just missing the noise of the guy typing on his keyboard during the conf call...

[@aaronrey4199]

+Thomas I Guilty as charge! =(

[@celia-ov6rm]

Yeah... that would be me... :) I'm also "Beth", aka, I always send the recap e-mail!

[@PiyushKumarsinghbakait]

😅

[@winslake]

Mute is your friend

[@michapace268]

winslake and NO ONE knows how to use it!!

[@JTHH_YouTube]

As a project manager working in a company, with not so competent employees who do not understand email, conference, and meeting etiquette, I encounter each and every one of these exact scenarios practically in every meeting. Spot on.

[@K7AGE]

They missed the guy eating potato chips and someone typing. Great stuff..

[@51munz]

yeah, and the guy standing up with no pants on

[@jackmichaud7387]

Also missed the offshore team with unintelligible accents and 3 second delay. And a baby crying. Otherwise perfect.

[@RobertFerretti]

Jack Michaud K7AGE simun Højgaard L. Don't forget the callers in their pajamas and the interruptions by callers joining the 'next' call.

[@Lunyfringe]

Also need somebody deriding the idiot that doesn't know how to tell if he's using a Mac, because he thinks he's muted...

[@neverumindwho]

Yes, and someone breathing into the phone when they're not speaking, instead of muting it - very creepy and happens all the time!

[@GlamazonBarbie]

OMG! I don't know if I want to laugh or cry. Laugh, because it's hysterical. Cry, because it's my life.

[@Sara-dp8jk]

Same here 😅

[@hellterminator]

Massively inaccurate. No one wears pants for conference calls.

[@SancLunatic]

I was about to say the same exact thing lol

[@jangiew]

haaa haaaa ha

[@hollyhenderson318]

hahahah!

[@sailormars20]

hellterminator haha yas

[@Student-ti2hj]

I beg your pardon. I do consider my fiancee's boxer briefs "pants".

[@PonderTheUniverse]

I'm sorry - the fade out empty chair hallway scene gets me every time...

[@sheresejames-grow1779]

Me, too.🤣

[@norcorider2005]

So true! Love it. Just needed the beep as people drop off the meeting. Or the classic beep on, beep off, beep on, beep off as they magically connect and disconnect 5 times in 20 seconds. Love the silent meeting stalker at the end! :)

[@mynameisliana]

3:16 “Dave... you been here the whole time?” 😭

[@IceLynne]

Lol

[@Losangelesharvey]

a beautiful moment

[@Sara-dp8jk]

😂😂😂

[@samhouston2000]

Where is the guy on a bluetooth in a moving car.

[@ronerel8136]

Hahaha so true 😂 Also I made a zoom sketch, you're welcome to check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGOWnJ-Va9mYp6M

[@aznchik7229]

I'm hurt by how accurate this is... 7 years ago! Now this is the norm with remote working 😆

[@CharleneFreeman]

This is so realistic to the conference calls I am on every day.. and they still want to have a meeting about the meeting for the meeting later and a pre-meeting as well as a follow up meeting. Welcome to my world...

[@sheresejames-grow1779]

It's 5 years from this comment and I'm in that world now.🤪

[@mazadancoseben4818]

Lolll

[@Pulsonar]

Rex is my favourite, so passionate, and so willing to share, he knows what life is about :)

[@KellyMarshall]

Almost spit my coffee out from laughing!! Love this guys!

[@peter_c._kuehne]

Same here but I eventually did, needed to clean my coffee dripping keyboard... "I hit a deadspot" killed me... :-)

[@rakhit]

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. And Dave at the end (rofl) just brilliant!

[@AndreaDeckard]

I love this! The only other thing I would add is the work at home parent who has children at home and wildly gesturing at said children to quiet down during the call.

[@gabbygirlmedia]

LOL! Yes!!

[@SaltarSolutions]

Absolutely!

[@SancLunatic]

I agree with everything about this video except the fact everyone on the call has clothes on.

[@adrianpurtill84]

I find this absolutely hilarious every time I watch it - just so spot on! The dog barking is the cherry on top!

[@dagreat187]

amazing how accurate this still is, even 6 years later...

[@bertport]

The only thing they missed was when someone puts everyone else on hold. Then everyone listens to hold music and recorded "thank you for your patience" messages repeated in alternating English and Hindi.

[@leeabrahams9889]

Bert Porter A thousand times this! Bonus points when you're on a conference call troubleshooting a live major incident.

[@dineshamoore9182]

Bert Porter 😂😂😂

[@lulux9795]

THE Dog barking SENT ME LMAO MY Friend and I in class yesterday had the “go ahead” back and forth moment 😂😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Hope everyone is doing well !

[@furiouhuzzah]

I just got off a train wreck of a conference call... and I had to watch this again. 2 years later and it is still spot on & hilarious!

[@Taramw32]

I watched this a few years ago, and I laughed till I had tears. It still does it for me. Thank you!

[@steveratliff8965]

Should show two participants texting each other about other members

[@msphil4life]

Totally our team! We have a group chat going during every call🤣

[@michellenwoha4552]

I've done this before! LOL!

[@YamiNoSensei13]

Yes, that would be me!

[@ronerel8136]

Hahaha so true 😂 Also I made a zoom sketch, you're welcome to check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGOWnJ-Va9mYp6M

[@laurieh985]

Omigosh... this is HILARIOUS and pretty much just like EVERY "conference meeting" I have to attend.... DAILY!

[@alisonprovost8700]

only thing missing is someone walking in wearing pajamas

[@marinahrabar168]

I am very grateful to the staff. One of the pleasures of this example is that this call is from Real Life. Thank you!

[@aimhighash3388]

I used to be a conference call operator and had to essentially sit through this several times a day. I also got the blame when the speakers would speak over each other and blame the 'quality of the line'. Great vid!

[@Kronx1970]

This was 99% perfect. The 1% was it needed someone breathing heavily in their microphone the entire time.

[@Anna_Stetik]

Kronx1970 OMG yes!

[@richkaplan6590]

+Kronx1970 So what if I have asthma!

[@SeanHollingsworth]

+Kronx1970 Or someone beating the heck out of their keyboard! ;-)

[@conflagrationTuesday]

Or scratches the microphone on their chest hair while they're in bed (different timezone)

[@allo801]

Darth Vader is always on the call

[@lisaacampora3771]

Watching this while muting a conference call amd webinar. So accurate

[@lisaacampora3771]

Right!!!

[@deathrays]

this makes me laugh so hard, 7 years later and it's still so accurate. SO spot on. and for those that didnt need to have calls over zoom, that now rely mostly on zoom (and for the last 16 months) will totally get a kick out of this.

[@ereptek]

It's amazing with Video Conferencing - Teams/Google/Zoom/Webex, how much is still relevant after 6 years!

[@crimson25543]

So funny I was doubled-over LOLing with tears streaming down. Can't begin to tell you how much I love this video. The droll humor, the spot-on characters, so much win here! You guys are geniuses. I wish I could work & play with your comedy team.

[@Mahshadn]

Who is watching this during the COVID-19 pandemic?

[@CreativePixels95]

Amateur. I'm watching this during the third World War.

[@greenlimabean]

I just started to have to use zoom because the gov wont let us teach students in a classroom. Just one zoom meeting and this is hilarious and accurate

[@LeNgoc113]

Just watching from the Heaven! Welcome.

[@StacyHaponik]

Yep. This is incredibly accurate. My class is using Skype.

[@realinsurancegal]

Right here!

[@dariopalomo3020]

*beep* -this is john sorry for being late -thats ok john we have 10 different people on the call... let me name each one of them again and start over..

[@theoriginalrjt21]

PM asking who is on the call instead of taking a roll call. EVERYONE speak at once.

[@anderivative]

You gotta keep saying whos on the call each new person so its like 12 days of christmas over and over

[@SunnyInLA]

This was always one of my fave vids of ALL TIME back in the day!! Glad it’s being revived now 😆🙏🏼

[@buvetina]

Completely Accurate. Nothing gets done. Someone allways speaks from a dark spot. Soon it will automatic repeat. Make it fun, memorable, productive.

[@clw4058]

lmbo !!!!!! Unmute!!! the password thing cracked me up and the incessant beeping . . .love this all so much. Spot on !!!!!!!!!!

[@HealingDivineLove]

Thanks for a great laugh. This happens every single conference call. I roared with laughter.

[@CindyLondon]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *****

[@HealingDivineLove]

Cindy London I know right? That is so very true and I keep laughing about it throughout the day because I think the back to the video. I'm so happy to have given you a belly laugh today.

[@CindyLondon]

Loved all of it. The weird tone quality to the caller, the incredible lack of organization to the call, the guy at the end who was just in in "listening mode" -- people doing other things while the call is on. Hysterical. *****

[@HealingDivineLove]

Cindy London and the wind noise in the dog. What they did miss one really important aspect. They did not have anybody on the toilet! That would have truly made it the quintessential conference call, wouldn't it? Don't you agree *****?

[@CindyLondon]

Oh so so funny. I was on one call where one person was driving and you could hear the GPS LOUDLY....it was unbelievable. Another one where one guy thought he had turned off his phone but didn't and put it in his pocket and was walking around. The noise was unbelievable. We had to hang up and call back in. Too much. Shez....*****

[@azaleaeasv8265]

This is really amazing! The way you put the background noises were great and it really gives off the real picture of the situation in a real life conference call.

[@BFl0]

They forgot the random emergency vehicle siren.

[@5MinutePsychology]

That’s something I experience on daily basis! I loved the video!

[@StelioDAlo]

lolrotf. After all these years it's still bang on. Never gets old.

[@joekkl]

Missing one: "Any questions?" (follow by a long silence......)

[@motogp1gprix1]

And of course there are lots but nobody wants to be "that guy (or girl)."

[@petrovandrey9735]

Indeed 😊👍👍

[@chrispatriot]

This was AWESOME!! Couldn't have nailed it better myself.... Definitely put together by some veterans of online meetings!! LOL

[@CrystalNicole13]

Every moment of this is my life every day. So accurate.

[@TheOneSonSetFree]

This is too spot on! lol I love it! I can't stop watching it.

[@margaretjohnson6633]

Had to look this one up again as it's SO relevant right now!

[@JustAnotherBoyce]

The whole thing is hilarious - but I love how Dave just shows up at the end. LOL - that happens all the time. Sure you were here the whole time! LOL

[@Losangelesharvey]

a good host monitors participants - but it's tough with a big group

[@gehdochnicht]

Well that's one way to look at it but for me Dave is that person who was there the whole time but is so irrelevant that no one even noticed until the very end.

[@trainstrains1]

I think Dave was actually the boss who sits there unannounced to check on their workers. It happens a lot.

[@AJJ7610]

This video never gets old.

[@calsmary]

Covid school at home is like this except the conference is a class of 8 year olds. Can we please get a remix of this with homeschool theme?

[@kiakahakuri]

Now that could be hilarious

[@andymartin2571]

How could this get 1,521 thumbs down? I can just see the explanation: "No, my conference call experience has been entirely different, and quite positive."

[@passiveaggressivenegotiato8087]

+Andy Martin People who depend on them; get good at doing them. This is how it is when it goes wrong

[@andymartin2571]

Get good at them? I've done a thousand of them and they all suck. It's like getting good at driving off a cliff...they never work. At least 3 of those things that happened in this vid have happened on each of the thousand conference calls I have been on.

[@tonylanda6654]

OldHickory Jackson You are correct about people who depend on them: the person whose only job is to send out the summary which could have replaced the entire meeting. Redundancy at its worst.

[@jfolz]

​@@andymartin2571 Three things go wrong in a 30 minutes (or longer) call and that makes it terrible? Take calls seriously, get a decent mic (headset preferrably), and don't use wifi for crying out loud.

[@calsmary]

That’s how many Karens watched.

[@angelodionisio3736]

When he ends up outside talking to the wall I was dying laughing. This is great.

[@jamesthewineguy]

Love the "TRIPP has joined the meeting: "BETH... had joined the meeting." "JOHN...has joined the meeting."

[@DaGratest816]

This is so on point it makes the humor just that much more funny.

[@talhamufti2820]

you missed that guy who loudly breath in his microphone!

[@sheilafreeman1812]

Great. Love the little touches like the older man who isn't sure what type of computer he has. That's me..

[@tammyco3225]

So accurate. These people and their dogs, kids in the background! Maddening!!!!

[@milife3088]

On mute = aka not paying attention or doing anything else but actually listening to the call

[@ja68833]

Hilarious especially the guy's dog barking in the background, the Starbucks noise in the background. I think though they should add a kid yelling in the background "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, and the Dad yelling " I am on the phone get out of here". Always happens when my boss on a conference call and his kids trying to come into office or other distractions going on for those of us who work at home. lol

[@danielmoses6626]

Wow, I have just done my first ever conference calls (due to COVID), and I can't believe how accurate this is, from over 6 years ago! The tech has not improved at ALL since then!

[@obdurate.tracing]

When I watched this in 2014, I laughed hysterically. Now it just kinda hits too close to home....

[@Beth-gw6cg]

Yup! Actually heard someone taking a leak on a conference call; everyone just pretended to ignore it. 😂

[@neverumindwho]

Am crying with laughter, this is so on point - conference calls are the most inefficient thing I've ever had the misfortune to experience!

[@dudeperfect]

hahaha this is amazing

[@noahdamschroder4377]

I will lose my mind

[@EdwardTorvalds]

Jeremiah Junken see this

[@YoungFogerty]

Dude Perfect oh, you’re here!

[@theotheoggg]

Dude Perfect ur like super famous now lol

[@timpanixx]

Wow

[@silkytp789]

Should have added the loud typing from whomever was taking notes

[@angiebelle33]

Brill! And another one to add to list... "If you're not talking, could you please mute!"

[@darshanachoudhary8068]

Maannnnnn this is sooo niceee♥️♥️♥️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JosephJonesJRJ]

Oh my god. That's my entire day, every day. Perfect, spot-on.

[@JosephJonesJRJ]

It's a living. I'm not cleaning septic systems, and I'm compensated fairly. However, yeah-- that aspect kind of sucks. :)

[@Lyoko104]

+Joseph Jones (JRJ) Is an office job good ?

[@amaxwell01]

Hrmm, I think that they've been on some of my most recent calls. So good.

[@MikeMcElroy]

For it to be one of your calls, it needs more bourbon.

[@cindyreynolds5936]

One time I was on a conference call... one of the guys thought he was on mute and called our boss the "C" word, worst thing you can call a female. She said the guys name and then said, "I heard that." Awkward!

[@boxer12350]

Cindy Reynolds what happened?

[@nelsonricardo3729]

Was he right, though?

[@jjhavila5272]

Wow!!!

[@borkasiamese4617]

@@nelsonricardo3729 LOL

[@aeropereda8923]

Whats that C word?

[@JeroenWijnands]

It lacks bad car kit guy and "I'll be working from home today" with two toddlers in the background.

[@somdev100888]

The toddlers are a must..

[@JamesVestal-dz5qm]

My father is having a tele-conference, like the educated man of computer science he is. He would never call this a zoom call, his Ph.D puts him above that class in society.

[@justindouglas7043]

Totally love this - I have watched it quite a number of times & I find myself laughing out loud every time, still!

[@RobertStroudISACA]

just played the video again... so true!

[@RobertStroudISACA]

Played this for the ISO team - they loved it!

[@philgreen4029]

I never get tired of watching this, it's so funny! I've sometimes been the one with the dog barking, kettle brewing, ...

[@RobertStroudISACA]

Have no problems believing that :)

[@SirusBarhan]

As far as I am concerned for a conference call it went pretty well! ;)

[@maltewill]

So true

[@hr1meg]

You forgot when someone puts their phone on HOLD, and music starts to play and everyone in the conference call hears it. We had that happen once, and the woman in charge of the meeting was so pissed, and was trying to talk over the music, and eventually cancelled it. At my station we were crackin up (as I'm sure others were too). Every meeting after they would say to only mute, and not put call on HOLD. LOL.

[@stevemachin6372]

I love this, I refer to this video time and time again, it never ceases to make me laugh. Brilliant and so true!

[@estheraruka6374]

"Dave? You've been here the whole time?" I am Dave. Dave is me

[@CHARCESARIO]

Missing the crying baby and the girl in her Jammies. Hilarious!

[@jangiew]

Oh that would be me, well at least I brushed my teeth

[@JonathanBrewer]

This is like every call that is not a google hangout. Lol.

[@adrianschuurmans]

Loved it....have experienced this too often without thinking downloaded it and posted (and was blocked by facebook) Sorry, now have included the link on facebook instead.

[@JustPierreMusic]

Hilarious 😂

[@Takendra]

I had a zoom call today with no pants , while I was scrolling through Facebook

[@rzrbck84]

LOL!!*when the dog started barking

[@suewick-krch3467]

Love, love, love this! Need to add a "Sniffer" in the next one.

[@Speakconfidentenglish]

This is fantastic. I'm working on how to lead and organize successful conference calls in English with a group of students and I'm looking forward to using this with one of my classes. Thank you.