Abusing Lounge
Sep 26, 2025 | 8:52 am
#46
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Some other wags in the office (I promise you it wasn't me!) rang his extension one night and left a very, very naughty embarrassing and inappropriate message on his voicemail for the whole office to hear the next morning.
It had the intended effect...he never again listened to voicemails on speaker.
Sep 26, 2025 | 1:32 pm
#47
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To a part, I would say it's also the lounge designers fault - who'd have thought that a business lounge would occasionally mean that people take calls? 
Some lounges do it right and they have small separate cubicles to take calls in, like the SK lounge in ARN. Others... don't.
Some lounges do it right and they have small separate cubicles to take calls in, like the SK lounge in ARN. Others... don't.Plus, on lounges where there is a business corner, suggesting to loud people to move their call there is way less confrontational -- and more efficient.
Sep 29, 2025 | 2:10 pm
#48
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Taking a call is one thing but to put it on speaker and shout is another. Why do people watch videos on speaker phone?
As for people taking stuff I have seen in many lounges in Asia they put a sign too.
As for people taking stuff I have seen in many lounges in Asia they put a sign too.
Sep 29, 2025 | 5:14 pm
#49
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Slight hijacking of the thread for bad behavior while traveling, but outside of a lounge.... I am in the aisle seat, obnoxious guy in the window seat with his wife in the seat behind him. He places a call to his attorney (during which the flight attendant tells him to shut down his phone, which of course he ignores). He proceeds to tell his attorney all about an idea he has that he thinks will solve all of his financial problems and, after explaining the idea in some detail, asks his attorney at what point in the development process he should patent it. His wife is hissing at him to stop talking about it in public. He looks around, sees I am the only person near him, and then announces to his wife that there's no need to worry because nobody (ie me) will be able to understand it. He then tells her not to worry because since he was discussing it with his attorney, it's "privileged". What a bozo. So I took notes on it.
He went on to leave all of his garbage on the seat between us: open soda can rolling around, chips, candy, etc, and kept getting up and kneeling on his seat, shoes and socks off, to berate his wife and accuse her of being the reason they had no money. A really unpleasant person.
He went on to leave all of his garbage on the seat between us: open soda can rolling around, chips, candy, etc, and kept getting up and kneeling on his seat, shoes and socks off, to berate his wife and accuse her of being the reason they had no money. A really unpleasant person.
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As for abuse; often enough see people somewhere between completely ignoring staff to rude/dismissive. A small nodd or quick "thank you" when they collect your dirty dishes is really not that difficult. Also; I don't know what some people do in the bathrooms but how quickly they can turn from perfectly clean to 5am in a club is impressive (and yes that is with regular cleaning).