At the company I work for, people like to have a lot of meetings. Ah, I miss the old days when meetings would be held face-to-face in a meeting room. But my employer converted most of the meeting rooms to office space for more workers, and nearly all of the meetings are conference calls.
I used to suffer through these meetings uncomfortably holding the receiver to my ear. I saw some people with headsets, but I thought that there was probably some ridiculously complicated bureaucratic requisition process required to get one. But then I was told that all I had to do was call the “help desk” and ask for one. So I called the “help desk” and a week later I got a headset!
I was so happy to finally have my own headset. Until I tried to use it at a meeting. That’s when I learned that the headset sucked, and when I talked into it, no one could hear me. At first, I thought maybe I was doing something wrong, but after a great deal of experimentation I concluded that it wasn’t me, the headset just sucked.
So finally, after delaying far too long, I called the “help desk” again and asked for a new headset. Then a month went by and still I had the same old headset that sucked. So I called the “help desk” again. A few days later, finally, the head help-desk guy came by and gave me a new Plantronics headset with a noise canceling microphone. Everyone was able to hear me when I talked into the mike. Now my meetings are almost fun!
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This photo was taken with the Olympus E-PM1 PEN Mini. Now you may ask, why do you need a $500 camera to take a picture of a headset hanging on a cubicle partition? Well, I probably could have made do with a lesser camera, but still, the lighting was kind of dim. This was shot at ISO 800 at 1/30 of a second, so I might not have been able to get a good handheld shot with a lesser camera that lacked image stabilization or good high-ISO ability.
