There is probably nobody out there who has not had to deal with the pitfalls of the modern - day conference
call: crying babies or dogs barking on the line of the person working from home; the dude
calling in from his
cell phone with bad reception; the lady dialing in from the airport with
flight announcements on the P.A. system interrupting every 30 seconds; the loud talker; the soft talker; the foreign accent - talker you can not understand; the two people who keep talking over each other; the business - speak cliches you must endure («at the end of the day»); and so on.