my rule is if strangers can figure out your job title from your coffee shop call, you’re doing too much
people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable
Submitted 2 weeks ago by stermy4u@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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stermy4u@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Man, you’re just an inconsiderate ass.
Crank up some fart sounds on your phone.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ah, and also the politionan 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.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
its main character syndrome. aka developed narcissism.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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?
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It still is, he’s just an idiot
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A rude idiot!
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
People who have full on conversations with Ai in public are insufferable.
Ive been seeing it a lot more often recently. The shit is on speaker, I can hear you talking to a clanker
lemon@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Happy to say I’ve so far been spared from witnessing this. There’s an obvious shamelesness to doing anything on speaker in public, but this one would actually hurt
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
People are having stt tts voice conversations with AI? Damn I’m OOTL.
adam_y@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
Is that what op was talking about? No I use headphones.
Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A video call with headphones isn’t any louder. But people can still hear one side
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you have shit boundaries then. you dont answer work outside of work hours and make that everyone elses problem too
DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
ITT people with jobs where they have to be available vs those who do not.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
I mean, it was 2pm, but kk.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Starting with choosing to not starve in this economy.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Sorry my dude. Sometimes there ain’t no option. If internet cafes were still a thing I’d do them there.
Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Coworking spaces exist and a lot of libraries have study/conference rooms you can use for cheap if not free
potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
You’re assuming (incorrectly) that people that do these things live there or that every country has libraries with those spaces. News flash, they don’t. If you’re travelling and working and your hotel/whatever has shitty internet or no desk, sometimes you just don’t have a choice. After all, it’s literally just a person talking. Is it really that annoying just because the person they’re talking to isn’t physically there? Maybe it’s you who is being annyoing for complaining about this.
DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They do, and neither work in most cases.
I have used libraries before and they are great for this when they are close by. I’ve never used a co-working space - do they have drop in desks where I can just slip in to one in a storage city and give them $10 to sit for 30 minutes?
My need typically comes when I’m travelling and something comes up. Coffee shops are quick and convenient and they have always been used for this kind of thing. Right back to their historical origin as trading houses.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Zoom callers are the SECOND worst invasive species at the local coffee shop. Those annoying TikTok dance and sing while doing “normal” shit at ten X full volume? Those are the worst.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry :( I’m currently homeless, and thus my only access to WiFi is at public locations like coffee shops (and libraries, but my local library is well used and so quiet that I’d be even more of an asshole to do calls there).
Though I am admittedly part of the problem, I confess that this has, if anything, made me more judgemental of people who engage in calls like this in an assholeish manner. For instance, I try my best to be as discreet as possible, as well as choosing places that are busy enough that my voice is more likely to blend into the background noise (I’m fortunate that my headphones are quite good at picking up my voice).
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
then you’re not the problem, you’re aware, try to minimize etc
Assholes are everywhere but you aren’t one of them, based on this.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Why? What difference does it make if they’re talking to someone face to face compared to it being via video call?
lime@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
volume. the difference is volume.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
So you’re just complaining about loud people, not people taking calls.
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People who do anything other than acquiring coffee in coffee shops are untrustworthy.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Especially those tea drinker. Smh. Deviants.
forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Nah, coffee shops are also a great hangout space in general.
We sometimes get a coffee, sit down with our laptop and chill for a couple hours, just to get out of the house. It’s pretty cheap and a nice change of pace compared to sitting at home.
Not being loud or anything.
– Frost
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eww
AlteE@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
This can be related to any calls or even watching a YouTube video without a headphones.
molten@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gimme a better option. I will be insufferable in order to make ends meet.
JackTea@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
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
molten@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
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
Now wifi + might be unsafe depending on the city.
Thanks for nothing brub.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
-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.
kinther@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did this once with a team meeting. There was a guy who showed up 3 minutes into my call and was playing the guitar. I muted myself but when they asked me a question I had to quickly unmute and answer, then mute. My coworker was like “where the fuck are you?”
angband@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Causality: he went and got his guitar put of the car because you were on a teams meeting in a public space intended for relaxation. He’s just trying to help you relax.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
and on public transit. or in a washroom.
Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
walk behind them and start making faces
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
starbucks people, being pretentious writing a novel or doing something “important” on thier laptop.
treesapx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Okay, but back up there a second: People quietly writing stuff or doing work upsets you?
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Omg yes, that stuff blows my mind.
Strider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh no, coffee just slipped… Oops
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I go and drink my coffee in another place that also has coffee.
The coffee shops have long been ruined by these laptop people.
I walk passed a huge one often, front is all glass like a giant fish tank.
A line of about 25 people in a row plastered against the window facing outside.
All of them alone, all with laptops.
None of them see me pass by less than 1 meter in front of their dead stares.
More of them inside.
I don’t want to drink coffee in a dystopian office filled with these worker drones.
Fuck them
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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, now into my ear. Fucking not gonna happen!
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.
ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Hacking?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
hacking
a cough - harsh, dry, and spasmodic
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
they pulled out their cyberdeck (a commodore 64 with an armstrap and a small CRT display affixed) and started typing furiously
lena@gregtech.eu 2 weeks ago
He chopped (hacked) her to death with an axe
systemglitch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
English not first language by chance?