i love conference calls. i get a lot of work done.

you could have just said 'conference calls' and been done with it

Or when every time the the phone beeps the host stops and asks, "who just joined?" Then, after the pregnant pause, three people speak at once which of course means no one can understand what they just said

or someone has a set up that creates echos that just continue into infinity and nobody can figure out who it is so they just ask everyone to mute themselves until they are ready to talk. then half the people forget this and there is either long spells of silence while a person muted is talking or people unmuting themselves mid sentence and don't start over.

i work in the education technology field. The conference calls i'm on revolve around who can buzzword themselves into being king buzzword. "what we are trying to facilitate is a cloud environment that is capable of prioritizing the app flow while not saturating stochastic queuing" *beep**hnd has left the call*

I love when people say their name at the automated prompt before you enter the call. Then when they leave the call early it says, "Leash has left the call." The presenter, like a CFO, will usually say something like, "I guess I bored that guy to death."

Nothing stopping you from using someone else's name at the prompt.