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Coffee shops aren't like open-plan offices. In an open-plan office, you have to listen to all your coworkers, including those on completely different teams, ha
by midoridensha 3y ago
Coffee shops aren't like open-plan offices.
In an open-plan office, you have to listen to all your coworkers, including those on completely different teams, have extremely loud and simultaneous conversations that you can hear from far across the room.
In a coffee shop, people generally don't talk, or keep their voices low when they do, so you generally only hear people talking to the staff to make orders and such.
- HWR_14 3y agoIndeed. In a coffee shop, it's considered rude to talk on a phone at full volume. In an open office, it's absolutely "fine" for some reason.
- msh 3y agoBlame management who puts people whos job it is to talk on the phone all the time in the same open office as people who need to concentrate.
- WirelessGigabit 3y agoThere was a group of people in a meeting room working on separate parts of some larger project. I had to call one of them. You think that guy would get off his ass to walk away and talk to me in private? I spend the time helping you out and you don't even offer me that? No, I had to hear 3 other people having a conversation louder than his call with me.
- midoridensha 3y agoIt's especially "fine" if you're a salesperson, and you're sitting right next to a group of engineers who are trying to concentrate.
- ghaff 3y agoRoles aren't always that well-defined. Many of us aren't recruiters or in sales but can still spend hours a day on planning, etc. calls with distributed teams. It's not practical to seek out a phone booth or alcove for every one of those calls.
- HWR_14 3y ago> It's not practical to seek out a phone booth or alcove for every one of those calls. Why not? It's not practical to make 8 of your coworkers suffer through your call either. Maybe, if you need to be on the phone for hours a day, you need an office not to be in an open floorplan.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoLast time I was at the coffee shop someone was watching Netflix at full volume. So yeah that was pretty bad. And I don’t have any power to stop them (at a workplace I could complain perhaps)
- midoridensha 3y agoComplain to the staff. If they refuse to do anything, then leave and don't come back, and leave a 1-star review on Google Maps or Yelp.