Originally Posted by Non-NonRev
...In the STL Admirals Club, a business executive type calling what I assumed was a subordinate to tell him/her that layoffs were going to proceed. He detailed the people who were going to get the axe, and gave specific instrictions on some of the people...
Reminds me of one I overheard in AA's LHR Flagship Lounge a couple of years ago. A businessman was discussing something equally confidential, complete with names of people and the company, in a voice loud enough to suggest that he didn't really believe telephones work. I wrote a short note and put it in front of him as he was talking:
You don't know who I am.
You don't know where I work.
You don't know who I know.
He toned it down in a big hurry!