Bad off-phone manners

[tloonya]

A lot was told about people who are loud and rude on the phone in public places.
And no one ever said anything about those others who seeing you ON THE PHONE and starting to talk to you like if you were NOT ON THE PHONE!!!
And if you trying to get away from them and they are following you asking their question LOUDER so if they don't understand that you are maybe talking to an important client or supplier or who...

[Rocky Mtn Saver]

Pesky customers...

[tloonya]

...or if I am chewing...don't wish me bueno appetite!..move along...how am I supposed to say 'thank you' if I am CHEWING

[greeniis10]

Sadly because lots of people lack basic manners these days.  People talking with food in their mouths is a HUGE pet peeve of mind (but it is also common courtesy to others to NOT do it) but I am noticing it is being done even on TV shows and commercials these days.  Ugh.  I change the channel to avoid commercials anyway, but no, shoving large bites of food into your mouth and talking about it does not make the food you are advertising more appealing.

Phones: yep, my office has a glass door and a wall of windows so I'm easily visible to the parking lot.  I'm on the phone a lot at work.  Poeple walk in multiple times a day (not my clients) asking for directions, to use the phone, places to eat, etc. while I'm ON the phone talking!  So rude.  I inform them that they are interrupting a telephone call and they need to go elsewhere. 

[Formerly SK]

Sept 25, 2013 12:47:46 GMT -5 tloonya said:

A lot was told about people who are loud and rude on the phone in public places.
And no one ever said anything about those others who seeing you ON THE PHONE and starting to talk to you like if you were NOT ON THE PHONE!!!
And if you trying to get away from them and they are following you asking their question LOUDER so if they don't understand that you are maybe talking to an important client or supplier or who...

I see you've met my children. 

[Otto the Orange]

loony if I what I did upset you so much you should have just addressed it to me, not a unanimous message board....now I am soooooo embarrassed

[Deleted]

THAT is what made you embarrassed?!?! 

[NancysSummerSip]

Sept 25, 2013 12:47:46 GMT -5 tloonya said:

A lot was told about people who are loud and rude on the phone in public places.
And no one ever said anything about those others who seeing you ON THE PHONE and starting to talk to you like if you were NOT ON THE PHONE!!!
And if you trying to get away from them and they are following you asking their question LOUDER so if they don't understand that you are maybe talking to an important client or supplier or who...

Good Lawd....you've met my coworker?

She doesn't just talk to you while you are on the phone; she yells at you. And what she yells may or may not have anything to do with the conversation. She just has to get her two cents' worth in. She does not seem to realize that people can hear her doing that, and ask me who the crazy person is in the background, doing the yelling.

[Deleted]

Same here, Nancy. Only it's my boss who's the yeller. 

[tloonya]

So we all have it! So how come we never talked about it?

[NancysSummerSip]

Sept 26, 2013 10:39:16 GMT -5 tloonya said:

So we all have it! So how come we never talked about it?

The issue has probably been mentioned in other threads, like in a thread about bad coworkers or stuff we hate about work. But it just never got its own thread.

My coworker has selective hearing. She may not talk for hours, but let me get on the phone with someone important, and she start spewing random words. I'm pretty sure she does it to hear herself, and remind herself that what she says actually matters. Yeah, right.

[Happy prose]

I have people that will see me on the phone, and take a seat in my office to wait for me. I think they're just social nitwits. 

[tloonya]

Sept 25, 2013 12:52:37 GMT -5 Rocky Mtn Saver said:

Pesky customers...

Rocky,
we all I am sure appreciating your sarcazm, however I want to ask, have you said that to let me know that you as a matter of fact LIKE to be talked to when you are on the phone?
Or there is another explanation to your comment?

[tloonya]

Sept 26, 2013 12:22:50 GMT -5 Happy prose said:

I have people that will see me on the phone, and take a seat in my office to wait for me. I think they're just social nitwits. 

Are they actually sitiing there IN YOUR OFFICE listening to your conversation?

[Happy prose]

Yep. They think they are being polite by not interrupting.