Thread: Working On My Etiquette

So there I was this morning sitting in a meeting which was being run by the most loudmouth woman I have ever met in my life. She was talking so loud I actually started looking for a microphone, but there was none. Her voice was so loud it was actually hurting my ears. But I was proud of myself. When I got back to the office and people asked me how the meeting went, I didn't say "You should have heard this loudmouth woman who was running the meeting." That might have offended someone and then they would have told someone else and even if the someone else wasn't in on the original conversation, they would claim to be offended too. So upon reflection and some deep soul searching, I simply said that the woman who was running the meeting did an unbelievably good job of projecting her voice into the room and I don't think I have ever heard any speaker male or female project their voice as well as this woman did.

I think I'm making progress!

LOL

Ha! Good start!

Love that post Mark! Too funny.

You might have a future in politics Mark. LOL!!!!!!!!!!

It is a good response I can not think many people were fooled but it will sound better when repeated .

In meetings I usually say lets present the Idea then discuss any changes you think would make it better . Then we will vote on it Then we will do it my way seeing as I am paying. Not the best way of doing things but things do get done.

We have a guy here who now runs the QC department with a voice like that. But this guy can be funny and has a sense of humor along with being overwhelming, overbearing and just too loud.

On a slightly different note, I have a very bad problem of saying what I think and it sometimes gets me in trouble because the wrong people overhear me, or I poorly influence the newer people that don't know how things are yet.

Not long ago we had a "Hot Mic" incident after a lengthy heated conference call with one of our top 5 pharma company customers. Both my supervisor who sits next to me and I along with several others were connected to the call via an IP phone, but the Lync or Goto Meeting also sometimes auto connect to a headset plugged into the USB port of our laptops.

When the meeting was over, where I was not allowed to tell the customer the full truth, we all hung up our phones, or so we though. I vented for about 10 minutes with my boss and others in the cube, while someones phone was still live. All the customers gathered around their phones and summoned their bosses and listened to my whole rant. The issue got escalated all the way up the chain of command where the VPs were told that I was heard saying "They ordered a Cadillac and we sold them a Chevy" umong other things which led them to belive, rightly so, that we were withholding info about their issues. I wanted to be honest on the call but was told not to just tell them the truth and how to workaround the issue.

Anyway, we never figured out who's phone was open, but both my supervisor and I were yanked from any further dealings with that particular customer while things died down, which both of us were not too upset about since the customer was becoming a real PIA.

Almost every one of my reviews leaves a comment about being too open and vocal along with the rest of my stellar performance and I continually try to refrain from saying too much, but it rarely works