Folks!
What are best reasons you've given to dodge a client/internal meeting.😉
Eager to know some convincing ones...Go!

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Set up a dummy meeting invite in your calendar and claim that you have conflict. Join that call, go to desktop and put your power bank on top of space bar key. Simple, yet effective!

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I agree TCS1 : what I meant was we can leverage that.

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Need to go get medicines / essentials

Vaccination ( later say oh i couldn't get it, they ran out of vaccines)

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I told them I had to drive a family member for their vaccination. Since I'd already gotten mine.

Power Outage
Internet problems
VDI problems

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