I would rather listen to Dexys on my headphones than some f***wit having a zoom call in a cafe
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[Misc] Teams / Zoom in cafes
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el punal
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Really it was the proverbial storm in the teacup. Just verbals and nothing more. I think the two Albion fans were willing to get stuck in if push came to shove - nice to know they were around though.
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Well, yes. They all wear headphones.
I’m not sure why it’s so annoying to others. But it really is.
It’s a shame that now having been told how much you are disturbing others your response is
“I’m allowed”.
Sort of sums it up really.
A mex eyecan
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wonder what would happen if the other 20 all started shouting loudly so they can’t hear a thing themselves? You know like some flash mob
el punal
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I’ve got the Quadrophenia album and unfortunately there was a glaring mistake with the images. ‘Jimmy’ being shown going up the steps to Waterloo station to catch a train to . . . . Brighton? Unless he intended to change at Clapham Junction, which I doubt.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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I would rather listen to Coldplay on my headphones than some f***wit having a zoom call in a cafe
That's bothered me ever since I bought the album and saw those photos.I’ve got the Quadrophenia album and unfortunately there was a glaring mistake with the images. ‘Jimmy’ being shown going up the steps to Waterloo station to catch a train to . . . . Brighton? Unless he intended to change at Clapham Junction, which I doubt.
I chose to assume that trains ran from Waterloo to Brighton in the mid 60s. I'm not interested in anybody telling me that this wasn't the case.
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Having had a brief look online, it seems many people find cafe meetings very annoying.
One cafe in London banned them after the meeting people asked the other customers to keep the noise down.
One cafe in London banned them after the meeting people asked the other customers to keep the noise down.
el punal
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This sounds like the perfect ‘Poll’ question. Which detestable band/artist would you rather listen to on your headphones than some f***wit having a zoom call? I’m sure the list would be endless.
But people are allowed to talk in cafes. It's not entitlement to know that's true.
maybe it annoys you when people talk too loud. But people talk too loud in conversations as well. And plenty of people can have a call without being obtrusive.
I could argue 'right back at you' in that it's important to me and my mental wellbeing to not stay working from home, isolated, in a job that has no office in a house that isn't big enough for a seperate office, keeping my conversational volume at a reasonable tone in a public cafe that is full of nlise. But I shouldn't do that because you don't like it and would prefer to read your paper in silence?
el punal
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I’m not at all interested in telling you that it’s complete bollocks if you believed that you could catch a train from Waterloo to Brighton in the mid 60s.That's bothered me ever since I bought the album and saw those photos.
I chose to assume that trains ran from Waterloo to Brighton in the mid 60s. I'm not interested in anybody telling me that this wasn't the case.
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Ugh.
To be clear, I've never actually believed this to be true.I’m not at all interested in telling you that it’s complete bollocks if you believed that you could catch a train from Waterloo to Brighton in the mid 60s.
Interesting response. It's only uncomfortable as you'd prefer to assume I'm an entitled loudmouth, because it helps you with your position. But I'm capable of doing it and being sensitive to others. I'd bet a pound to a pinch of shìt, that if you were in the same cafe as me, you'd have no idea whether I was on a call or anything else. You'd just see a man with headphones on talking.
And I appreciate I haven't checked out the entire Internet, like yourself, but I work in cafes all over Brighton and there are thousands happily doing it with no fuss and with no issues by the cafe.
This is just a rehash of Dom July's loud man with ringtone. A loud arrogant twat ruining the peace is just that. It doesn't matter whether they're talking to Steve in accounts or their Nan.
I'd suggest you're a perfect example of someone that should RTO .... and that's coming from someone that's been WFH for 20 years.
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Found this online and it sums it up for me. Credit to whomever posted it;
People having a face to face chat is different imo. A low burble of background conversation is normal, pleasant even. Somehow, two people having a conversation over a coffee seem to naturally be a bit more aware of their impact on others around them than someone on a phone or talking at a laptop. Dunno why, there’s probably an interesting social experiment in there for someone. I think the one sided nature of what you’re hearing is part of it too. I can’t fully explain why, but I just find it really irritating!
People having a face to face chat is different imo. A low burble of background conversation is normal, pleasant even. Somehow, two people having a conversation over a coffee seem to naturally be a bit more aware of their impact on others around them than someone on a phone or talking at a laptop. Dunno why, there’s probably an interesting social experiment in there for someone. I think the one sided nature of what you’re hearing is part of it too. I can’t fully explain why, but I just find it really irritating!
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Why Overhearing One Side of Cell Phone Calls Is Bad for You
A new study shows that being forced to listen to one half of a person's cell phone conversation is far more distracting than overhearing two people talk.
www.cio.com
I have no office to work from. It doesn't exist. Like it doesn't for loads of people. I enjoy working nomadically but I also enjoy being in a public space. To see life and people moving about. We are a social species. And dare i say it, some of that requires occassionaly talking to people elsewhere on a newfangled electrical device at the same pitch as the other 40 people in the room are, whether they are talking to each other, on a phone, computer, to their counsellor, shrieking at kids or cajoling their dog into doing a rhumba.