We were at a restaurant just tonight next to a table where a man had a FaceTime on speakerphone for like a half-hour.
Remember when that was impolite?
It still is, he’s just an idiot
A rude idiot!
I don’t care what kind of call it is, frankly. I don’t want to hear you talk in your phone, or hear your phone make any sound whatsoever. Sitting there watching videos with the speaker on, at a restaurant? Damn.
my rule is if strangers can figure out your job title from your coffee shop call, you’re doing too much
May, they’re just an inconsiderate ass.
Crank up some fart sounds on your phone.
I don’t need no phone for that.
Even better!
Gimme a better option. I will be insufferable in order to make ends meet.
-5 feet further away
-not in my ear
-not beside my stall on the bathroom.
-with a headset
not really unreasonable nor difficult options. world is your oyster.
A coworking space
A library with a meeting room/quiet study room
At your home
At your company’s satellite branch if they have one
In the shade under a tree at a park away from people
–I just listed better options. You’re welcome.
Sorry. I meant, your welcome
A coworking space
A lot of them don’t have day/week passes.
A library with a meeting room/quiet study room
You’d be surprised by how many cities don’t have one of these.
At your home
What if I’m travelling?
At your company’s satellite branch if they have one
They don’t.
In the shade under a tree at a park away from people
No wifi + might be unsafe depending on the city.
Thanks for nothing brub.
You’re kind of assuming a certain level of wealth and type of town here. You’re really telling me a ton about where you live and your economic situation and not really considering anything else. It might be a big solution where you are but when my tiny library WiFi isn’t good enough for zoom meetings I need an actual alternative I guess I could try skipping town to go to my nearest co working space. But I’ll respond go your “you’re welcome” with a cordial thanks for the attitude and a bunch of options that are not necessarily applicable. But I wouldn’t really expect less from an entitled “don’t take your job interview in my coffee space.” Type person. Sometimes it’s the best option for people trying to get by. Sometimes people live near the coffee shop and don’t have a car. Sometimes a million things and situations that make it the best option in this hellscape. I’m sure your personal situation is different and all those evil meeting takers at your favorite coffee shop could just cross the street and go to the free super fast and private co-working space but that’s considering your situation a whole lot more than you’re doing mine.
Well yeah most of the time people are complaining online about things they see in their community spaces, they are referring to their own towns/settings
Sorry, couple of times it’s just been unavoidable. I do avoid it as much as possible, but I have a bus transfer that sometimes takes 45 minutes and there’s a coffee shop. The last one my boss’ boss wanted a sudden meeting, and well, it happened.
you have shit boundaries then. you dont answer work outside of work hours and make that everyone elses problem too
ITT people with jobs where they have to be available vs those who do not.
People who can’t imagine anybody else having a situation different from theirs.
Yeah, didn’t expect quite this much pushback but here we are. Apparently everyone else has jobs where they can tell their boss to pound sand regularly and not have to worry about ending up in the unemployment line in a few months, so I guess hey good on them.
I mean, it was 2pm, but kk.
Only a long list of very particular choices would leave you in a situation where it’s “unavoidable.” I don’t accept this excuse. Get your shit together.
Starting with choosing to not starve in this economy.
That’s when you hold the phone to your face - like a phone - so you can talk at a normal volume and hear people really well.
phones were designed to be used, well, like phones. People holding them like a slice of pizza and shouting into them like some narcissist ‘reality’ TV contestant are carefully defeating all the optimisation and annoying everyone on the same city block as them.
A video call with headphones isn’t any louder. But people can still hear one side
Is that what op was talking about? No I use headphones.
Was in a Trader Joe’s and this woman was practically shouting into her phone. Even worse she had it on speaker and the woman on the other end was shouting back. Bad enough in the same isle, but then she walked up within 2 feet of me and they continued shouting into my ear. Two can play that game…
I looked at her and began hacking as loud as could which is really loud. When I paused the shouting resumed so I started hacking again. The look on her face when she shouted “ewwww!” and backed away was priceless.
Perhaps not one of my finest moments, but one I will always treasure anyway.
Hacking?
they pulled out their cyberdeck (a commodore 64 with an armstrap and a small CRT display affixed) and started typing furiously
Crap, here I was thinking they used a Nintendo Powerglove and a Virtual Boy
It’s soooo bad.
hacking
a cough - harsh, dry, and spasmodic
Ohhh, ty!
English not first language by chance?
They chopped (hacked) her to death with an axe
walk behind them and start making faces
Who cares? Do you also find people who have in-person conversations in coffee shops insufferable? Or people who take phone calls?
Who cares?
The OP and a bunch of others in this thread.
Do you also find people who have in-person conversations in coffee shops insufferable? Or people who take phone calls?
ahh … rhetorical,
I don’t visit coffee shops, but out and about, people on zoom calls, or regular calls are much louder.
Yes.
Then stay in your house. Problem solved.
People usually yell (also during phone calls).
I actively avoid using coffee shops to take calls, but sometimes it’s the only place with wifi and power. I do try my best to keep my conversation at a level that is equal to others at the coffee shop. It’s really unavoidable sometimes.
Oh everywhere. People yapping at full volume holding their phone as far away as possible while the replies are nothing but highly distorted buzzing high volume screeches. On public transit. I was wishing for the whole bus to sink in the ocean.
I picture the moron wouldn’t even notice and continue yelling at the phone with bubbles going up.
Why? What difference does it make if they’re talking to someone face to face compared to it being via video call?
volume. the difference is volume.
So you’re just complaining about loud people, not people taking calls.
You can make a quiet call if you have headphones or earphones but I find that people (myself included) tend to talk louder on a call than they do in person. I’m sure that it’s not necessary but it happens anyway.
That doesn’t make it better. Do you see how your explanation doesn’t make it better?
Why do you think that I was trying to make it better?
Oh no, coffee just slipped… Oops
Ah, and also the politician who loudly discussed his strategy on the phone (tell them, but not them, etc.), so the whole train wagon could hear it. I guess some people just lack situational awareness sometimes. Or are so used to people listening to them.
Didn’t Trump’s lawyers discuss some extremely sensitive details about their response to the Mueller investigation’s requests RIGHT NEXT TO A REPORTER FOR THE NYT. Like a table over.
its main character syndrome. aka developed narcissism.
Omg yes, that stuff blows my mind.
