You have to wait until I am done talking
Posted by Dawn | Posted in Microphones , phones , Speakerphones , Things That Irk You | Posted on 4:59 PM
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This is an annoying thing that happens at work all the time. When I am on a conference call and we are on speakerphone and one person talks people do not realize that they have to wait until the other person is done speaking in order for the microphone portion of the phone to pick up your voice. If one person is talking you cannot really interupt them. It annoys me how many people try to interupt and then you cannot hear them and they said something important and then they have to repeat it any way. Speakerphone are not like regular phones and the microphone is picking up only the first person talking and then if you start talking it breaks up and people cannot hear you. So please when you are using the speakerphone let the other person finish what they are saying so that we can all hear the important wisdom you have to share with all of us.
That depends on how good the speakerphone is, if it's a full duplex speakerphone then people can talk over one another, however if one end is and one end isn't then the person at the end that isn't won't hear what's being said until they stop speaking, even though the other end hears both side of the conversation.
The only problem is when people assume that you have a full duplex phone then it is really difficult to follow what is going on