SAS Lounge Oslo: Quiet Area becomes Staff Party area
Jul 26, 2014, 8:08 am
#1
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SAS Lounge Oslo: Quiet Area becomes Staff Party area
<rant>
I know Scandinavians are true believers in equality, but for me this takes the biscuit.
Sitting in the quiet area of the Star lounge in OSL. A uniformed SAS staff member comes along every so often to check up on her friend. The last time, they decided to play a video game together - and this is meant to be the 'silent area' of the lounge.
<rant over>
I know Scandinavians are true believers in equality, but for me this takes the biscuit.
Sitting in the quiet area of the Star lounge in OSL. A uniformed SAS staff member comes along every so often to check up on her friend. The last time, they decided to play a video game together - and this is meant to be the 'silent area' of the lounge.
<rant over>
Jul 26, 2014, 12:56 pm
#3
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Agreed, why not just ask them to please respect the quiet zone? Just do it with a smile on your face and I'm sure they would move to another area without getting upset. Stewards and stewardesses must be among those who appreciate not being disturbed, so I'm sure they wouldn't mind.
Jul 27, 2014, 2:22 am
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One would assume staff is very well aware of it being a quiet area, and thus breking the rules deliberately. Your smilling approach might work or might render a very icey situation.
I'd be ranting too, one shouldn't have to police the staff.
I'd be ranting too, one shouldn't have to police the staff.
Jul 27, 2014, 3:06 am
#6
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There could be a cultural issue here. The OP lists London as his location, and suggests that Scandinavian belief in equality is the reason for the disturbance. Norwegians and Brits are not that different in behaviour. One of the main differences, except for he class issue, is the British reluctance to correct people who are nuisances in public. There is no such taboo in Norway: if people are misbehaving, it certainly is allowed to correct the miscreants. We do not go as far as the Germans, though, where it is seen as a public duty to correct the behaviour of others! ;-)
Jul 28, 2014, 4:37 pm
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I'm in the OSL lounge a couple of times a week and usually there are no issues whatsoever. I see more often in CPH that staff is busy chatting with eachother instead of doing their job. But then agian, this is not just with SAS but pretty much every lounge I come across with *A.