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Honestly, I don’t even like people having non-speakerphone conversations around me. I don’t know, I just feel like it’s rude. Just because our phones are mobile doesn’t mean we need to be on them at all times. Hearing one side of a phone conversation is annoying as fuck, anywhere, but I sure as shit don’t want to be subjected to that in public. I mean, reasonable use is fine, but I feel like I can just almost tell if your call is necessary or not, lmao. My last job, I’d be in supermarkets all day, and I swear people shopped but were bored and called a friend to pass the time. Like I feel like cellphones are a great invention in the sense that it’s much harder to be stuck incommunicado. Like 30 years ago if your car broke down, you had to just start walking, likely for miles, til you found a gas station or a pay phone, or maybe a good samaritan or cop might see you were in distress and help, that was your best hope. Now you just call a tow truck from your phone and you can watch YouTube til they show up. That’s cool, but I feel like we’re just stretching the boundaries by having too many casual conversations in public areas. Or these people who food shop with their family at home on speaker and/or FaceTime, I assume to check in for buying questions, but the idle time is just the noise of the household, usually babies and kids screaming, adults yelling and the kids for screaming, shit banging around, etc. I don’t want to hear all that.
It’s whatever, I’ll live, it’s just that I’m old enough to have been around before all this, back when you left your house in the morning, and that was it, you were unreachable. You were lucky if you had an answering machine to field those missed calls, otherwise you had no idea who, if anyone, had called. We just weren’t all up each other’s asses, and it was better, I just miss that. We all survived it, haha. I guess I just wish it wasn’t such a societal expectation now, like you could just not have one and people wouldn’t look at you like you had ten heads. There are a lot of jobs thatprobably wouldn’t hire me unless I had a cellphone, that’s kinda crazy. I don’t want to give a job that sort of access to me, lmao, and I shouldn’t have to to get the job. Anyway, to bring it back on topic, the culture of mandated perpetual accessibility just leads to these same attitudes about just yammering away anywhere and not caring who you’re disturbing. I don’t know, personally, I try not to have extended conversations in public. Obviously we can’t help when our phones ring, but we can help when we make calls, and in either case, I think we should make a reasonable effort to step away from others, to another room, outside, whenever possible. And if you can’t do that and absolutely have to pick up, I get it, these aren’t hard rules I’m proposing, more a refinement of our own responsible usage. But when you pick up, maybe make an effort to speak in a somewhat hushed tone. Don’t just be like “HELLO? HEY, WHAT’S UP, SKEETER? YEAH, I CAN TALK...”, at the top of your lungs like you’re in your living room. I don’t think it should be banned or anything, lmao, I just wish we collectively were a little more discreet with our calls, and acted like we knew it was annoying to others. Maybe it just doesn’t bother people like it bothers me, so it doesn’t even occur to them to be self-aware about it.
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No that's annoying. But what i hate equally as much is those people that use those earpiece phones ( i don't know if they're bluetooth or if there's a specific name for them but they're wireless). But you could be on a bus or in line at the grocery store and someone wearing one of those will approach you and talk. They may even be looking right at you. If they have long hair, if they're wearing a hat, or even if it's in the ear facing away from you you cannot see it. And will assume they're talking to you. I've had more than one person give me a dirty look because i interrupted their conversation because i thought they were talking to me.
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I do use speakerphone at my job, but only because I tend to multitask while I work (answer the phone while looking up data, or typing on the computer while I'm talking to said person) so it's easier for me to use speakerphone in that instance. However, if it's a confidential call, such as a patient calling, obviously I don't use speakerphone.
But outside of work? Nah. I rarely use speakerphone unless I'm multitasking and need my hands free to do something else, and even then, it's when I'm at home or not around other people; I don't want them listening to my conversations! And I don't listen to music without headphones (who does that? It's so rude)
Now people who do talk on speakerphone openly to where I can hear their personal conversations? They get on my nerves. I want to tell them to shut up or interject into their conversation just so they know how they're annoying others, lol.
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I do this sometimes... I make sure not to play my ratchet playlist though... Especially because of the children that seem to ALWAYS be in earshot... I prefer headphones because it makes it less awkward when you ignore someone talking to you... They just think "oh she has in headphones and she can't hear me" but in reality I heard everything and want to be left alone... Great question... Sorry I am the person described in this question... I like really loud music coming out of really loud speakers!!! It's a culture thing for me...
I know people who do it and no offense but it's mostly Black people who do this and some Teenagers do it and when an accident happens and someone gets hit by a train or someone gets hit by a car then they blame the driver for negligence driving but it's true it happens, My cousin's boyfriend is Black and he comes up here to visit, he is on his phone the whole time and not one time does she tell him to get off, Trust me I have no offense to dating interracial dating cause I do support it but sometimes I wish my cousin would have chosen someone who shows caring for people and respect for people, I don't go out in public and get on my phone with the speakerphone on and I don't listen to music using my Android, I just don't know why these people do the things they do but it happens...
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The only times I use the speakerphone are those moments when I want the company I'm with to listen or talk to the person I'm having a phone conversation with. It's all about sharing.
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I hate when people listen to their music without headphones on. Nobody wants to hear their shitty music. After we close at my job, I put my AirPods in.
I NEVER DO THAT!! I think those people are RUDE and OBNOXIOUS, and sometimes I just like fcking with them, like talking to them, while they are talking on their speaker!! Pretentious assholes!!
It is rather annoying. The phone call isn't as bad but the music is worse since everyone around them has to listen to whatever type they most likely dont like and ruins their own peace of mind. at least phone calls you can be annoying back
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