You ever get a request so ridiculous, you just hit mute, lean back, and yell “WHY?!” into the void?

On the outside, you’re all calm and professional, “Sure, let me look into that for you.”
On the inside, you’re questioning every life choice that led you to this moment.

Mute button be saving jobs since day one!

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“Oh absolutely. The mute button is the unsung hero of workplace survival. Without it, half of us would be updating our résumés mid-meeting.”

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Facts! Without mute, half of us would be out of a job by now

Customers or employees? Had one manager at my last place, where we had a texting group JUST to say the things to each other that we knew we couldn't get away with on the call.

Then again, one of the members of that text group, a smart man, with decades of experience, running a multi-million dollar business unit, needed a website address. I read it to him, and he asked "is that all one word?" ;)

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Haha I love that! Sometimes those side chats are the only thing that keep us sane in meetings.

The mute button has saved me many times. If only life came with a mute button! And a way to mute my facial expressions, too 😂

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So true 😂 if only we could mute our faces when customers say the wildest things."

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