[Misc] Teams / Zoom in cafes

bhafc99 said:

Starbucks/Costa/Nero/Pret etc where someone has taken a 4-seat table to themselves, (maybe) bought one drink, plugged their laptop and phone charger into the building sockets/power supply, and proceeded to sit there for hours and hours on end, no matter how busy the place gets around them…

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bhafc99 said:

Starbucks/Costa/Nero/Pret etc where someone has taken a 4-seat table to themselves, (maybe) bought one drink, plugged their laptop and phone charger into the building sockets/power supply, and proceeded to sit there for hours and hours on end, no matter how busy the place gets around them…

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The Clamp said:

I quite enjoy going for breakfast/coffee of a morning on my days off, with friends or happy to go solo. It’s nice, relaxing.

Increasingly I find myself having to move tables or even down my coffee and leave the whole place.

Why?

People having full on work zoom or teams meetings.

It’s so annoying. They seem to revel in talking loudly about their boring jobs.
Lots of “hey guys, I wanted to touch base on this as I feel blah blah”

I just had to move downstairs in my favourite cafe because upstairs is rammed with people in teeny beanies holding laptop meetings. A cacophony. Upstairs used to be chilled and quiet away from the yoga mums and labradoodles .

On the bus on the way here three teens at the back playing some noisy tv program on their phone and yelling and jumping to whatever it was that was happening on their program. I mean screaming like 12 ye old girls. They were 16/17 ye old lads.

Does everyone treat the world like it’s their own front room now? “I’ll do what I like and you’ll just have to poke up with it”

It seems every whim or requirement of every one is catered for these days unless you just want a bit of decorum?

Increasingly I just want to move to the middle of nowhere and get away from all this noise.

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The Clamp said:

Increasingly I just want to move to the middle of nowhere and get away from all this noise.

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PascalGroß Tips said:

If you were in Shoreham, surely you had to ‘drift’ downstairs

Totally agree about the annoyance - in coffee shops, buses and trains etc. We went to London yesterday and chap near us was playing loud music on his phone with my headphones.

Even on way home from Liverpool game on Seagulls Travel coaches, an older chap was watching MotD - again loud and no headphones.

As you say… why?

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The Clamp said:

I quite enjoy going for breakfast/coffee of a morning on my days off, with friends or happy to go solo. It’s nice, relaxing.

Increasingly I find myself having to move tables or even down my coffee and leave the whole place.

Why?

People having full on work zoom or teams meetings.

It’s so annoying. They seem to revel in talking loudly about their boring jobs.
Lots of “hey guys, I wanted to touch base on this as I feel blah blah”

I just had to move downstairs in my favourite cafe because upstairs is rammed with people in teeny beanies holding laptop meetings. A cacophony. Upstairs used to be chilled and quiet away from the yoga mums and labradoodles .

On the bus on the way here three teens at the back playing some noisy tv program on their phone and yelling and jumping to whatever it was that was happening on their program. I mean screaming like 12 ye old girls. They were 16/17 ye old lads.

Does everyone treat the world like it’s their own front room now? “I’ll do what I like and you’ll just have to poke up with it”

It seems every whim or requirement of every one is catered for these days unless you just want a bit of decorum?

Increasingly I just want to move to the middle of nowhere and get away from all this noise.

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Bombardier said:

I have noticed a few cafe's / coffee houses are now displaying a 'no iPad's or laptops' notices stating that these are a no, no between certain hours. I think that's a good way forward if you are a business as me thinks one's takings must be down if someone is taking up valuable space but not purchasing goods? It also encourages loyal customers who, like you Clamp want the ambience of a cafe and enjoy it for what it is.

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hans kraay fan club said:

Well, they can get in the sea, along with any disrespectful, noisy customers.

I'll regularly sit on my own in a coffee shop while my wife is shopping, and browse my iPad, or watch some sport - always with no sound. Any place that somehow thought that was a problem to anyone, can get f***ed.

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Sea Cider said:

Not surprised that annoyed you! Taking anti social noise to the next level

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WhingForPresident said:

There was a guy BLARING Chinese TikTok videos on my train home last night. IN THE QUIET CARRIAGE.

Luckily I have good noise cancelling headphones that block out the selfish pricks I encounter on an almost daily basis. Surely people know it's not acceptable, so it's either a 'f*** you, I'm more important than you' to everyone or they just do it in the hopes someone will confront them so they can get in a fight over it.

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