It's amazing what conference call boredom prompts you to do

[nelz]

Or you could cheat and run it through The Dialectizer

[kilikopele]

Nah. That's cheating. Besides, it's over too quickly. My conference calls can run 90 minutes at a shot.

[Nigel]

Some years ago the company I worked for had weekly conference calls between all offices on a Friday afternoon. Usually a complete waste of time as the sales droids would end up shouting at each other for an hour or more...

My solution : I arranged with a friendly client half-way home to have a series of problems on Friday afternoons that just absolutely had to have me in attendance to fix...