In fairness, regarding my last post, I volunteered to dial in to the call. It's in my interests to influence the outcome of the discussion – and I can't do that if I'm not part of the conversation.
Normally I'm quite militant about being completely out of the office when I'm on leave. But this time I see being a little flexible as being in the interests of “the greater good” and to my long term gain.
But that doesn't mean I can't also be snarky about the whole thing, and thinking the situation is ass-backward 😅