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Mini Ask HN: Do you find it rude to crack one's knuckles in business meetings? I sometimes do this and wonder if it's bad form.
by Jun8 12y ago
Mini Ask HN: Do you find it rude to crack one's knuckles in business meetings? I sometimes do this and wonder if it's bad form.
- smorrow 12y ago"Rude" things are 100% superficial, pretty much by definition of rude. (As soon as something becomes an issue in terms of actual consequences, we stop using the word "rude" and starting saying other things: unacceptable, not right, fucked up)
- aaardvark 12y agoIt's kind of rude when talking to someone or in a meeting, otherwise not a big deal.
- ars 12y agoIf you do it once or twice then no big deal, but if you do it repeatedly, or a bunch of fingers one right after the other then it's rude.
- DanBC 12y agoSome people hate it, so you might want to be aware of that. Some people find it distracting, like tapping a pen, so you might want to be aware of that too.
- Raphmedia 12y agoI know a woman that cannot stand it. Doing it in internal meetings will get you a beating. If you were to do it in a business meeting where she was the client, she would probably never speak to you again and take the business elsewhere.