This reminds me of when I’m on calls with customers. Where I work now, I do many, many things. Too many, but it’s a small company. What can make it challenging is that we serve extremely large enterprise customers, mostly1. That creates weird imbalances.
Often, I’ll be on calls alone where the customer has 12+ people. And it’s funny when they don’t realize that I’m doing the role of those dozen or more people on the other side.
They’ll be like, “Is the compliance person here from the vendor?”
And I’ll say, “I’m here, on the call.”
And then someone from the customer will say, “Is the security lead here?”
“Right here,” I’ll chime in.
“Is the technical architect here?”
“Also here,” I’ll offer. At that point I’ll usually cut in and say that I’m the one on the call doing all the roles they had listed and I’m the only one who will be there.
It’s always funny.