WORK HUMOR
My Desk Phone Disappeared
What to do if it happens to you
Nobody wants to look stupid at work, so I do it for you. I am a certified Corporate Moron© who was caught unprepared the day my desk phone vanished from my office.
Like fax machines before them, desk phones are disappearing at an alarming rate from corporate offices everywhere. If you are not completely confident about the status of your desk phone, pay attention.
I was logged into a Zoom meeting at the office, ready to lead a call with 15 attendees.
The problem:
My audio wasn’t working. Helpful colleagues sent messages in the meeting chat, telling me to ‘call into the meeting.’ After years of Zoom meetings, I was initially stumped. Call in? Okay. I looked around for my desk phone, but it was gone!
Where did it go? When did that happen? I vaguely recalled IT’s corporate-wide emails announcing the removal of phones from the desks of thousands of Corporate Morons©.
Realizing I looked like a fool, I aborted the search for my desk phone and reached for my primary communication…
