Teleconferencing

I signed up to watch a supplier put on a "Lunch and Learn", they are totally common and I've been to lots of them. The only catch is that the presentation was being made in the office in Vancouver, so I would be teleconferenced in. No worries, I can deal.

So the first bit of oddness was that I was the only one in the Victoria office attending. Great, so little me in the big boardroom all by myself. No worries, I can deal.

The next bit of oddness, I couldn't handle.

I walk into the boardroom with my lunch and see that the big screen is all set up. I sit down and get my lunch ready and the presentation begins. I look up at the screen and I see.......myself.*

Oh God.

Everyone else can likely see me too! Everyone else who works there who I haven't met or talked to yet.

And I'm eating chicken.

I already have issues eating while these guys do their presentations and I usually grab my free lunch and eat later. But eating while all these people could also be watching me on a big screen and I can see myself on a big screen......it wasn't happening.

Then halfway through the presentation the entire thing froze and disconnected. I just left.



* The screen was split three ways, one for each of the offices teleconferencing in. So I could see the presentation in Vancouver, the boardroom in the Kelowna office and the boardroom in Victoria with me in it. Eating chicken.