Manners in the CCR
Mar 16, 2019, 10:13 am
#61
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Mar 16, 2019, 10:25 am
#62
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Mar 16, 2019, 1:09 pm
#64
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Mar 16, 2019, 4:12 pm
#67
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hapoens 60-70% of the time I’m in there now.
generally a mix of older or people who are selfishly unaware of others. I finds a firm but polite ‘please use headphones’ works well.
Sometimes it can be fascinating ... like the idiot in the Concorde business room today at 1030am discussing a refunding of a real estate deal so Capital and AB can exit it. Full details of planned cash raising with numbers and targets spewed out too, as clearly anyone in jeans nearby doesn’t understand this stuff. All this while said individual also stuffed a full breakfast down and carried on the call - masticating his food for all to see.
At least those kind of idiots are interesting. Their self importance seems to over ride any confidentiality that should be required. Clearly no one else in the area understands that stuff.
Once on board the amount of non public sensitive stuff that gets read in full view is also astonishing (Deutsche Bank and Barclays staff seem to do this a lot, in my experience). I’m surprised some hedge funds don’t just employ staff to pick up the tit bits to trade against these people (as clearly it’s all meant to be public anyway if shouted down phones and notes left out for all to see).
Mar 16, 2019, 4:28 pm
#68
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Hmm... a couple who are clearly happy to be there taking a selfie to mark the occasion (whilst not obviously inconveniencing anyone), or someone who takes a surreptitious photo of them in that moment and posts it on the internet with an implied invitation to others to pour scorn on them.... which represents worse manners do you think?
Mar 16, 2019, 4:46 pm
#69
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I've posted before that I am over travelling, and I certainly will not miss my fellow passengers in the lounges.
"Why take one seat when you spread out over four?"
"Who needs to wear socks and shoes in an airport?"
"OK kids, this is your playground. Run along and leave mummy and daddy alone."
Last flight in two weeks, I can't wait for a quiet aviation passenger free life.
"Why take one seat when you spread out over four?"
"Who needs to wear socks and shoes in an airport?"
"OK kids, this is your playground. Run along and leave mummy and daddy alone."
Last flight in two weeks, I can't wait for a quiet aviation passenger free life.
Mar 16, 2019, 4:51 pm
#71
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Hmm... a couple who are clearly happy to be there taking a selfie to mark the occasion (whilst not obviously inconveniencing anyone), or someone who takes a surreptitious photo of them in that moment and posts it on the internet with an implied invitation to others to pour scorn on them.... which represents worse manners do you think?
Mar 16, 2019, 6:57 pm
#74
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Maybe because it's such an ugly piece of equipment 
On a serious note though, some selfie-takers do not consider others while doing it, and that is annoying. Blocking the paths, picturing those who do not want to be in the background, suddenly stopping without paying attention to people behind them etc.
If they are considerate, selfie-taking can be perfectly OK but when they are inconsiderate, then it's just plain bad manners, not because of selfie-taking but because they're being selfish.
On a serious note though, some selfie-takers do not consider others while doing it, and that is annoying. Blocking the paths, picturing those who do not want to be in the background, suddenly stopping without paying attention to people behind them etc.
If they are considerate, selfie-taking can be perfectly OK but when they are inconsiderate, then it's just plain bad manners, not because of selfie-taking but because they're being selfish.
Mar 16, 2019, 11:04 pm
#75
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A friend of mine get so irritated by *those calls* that after hearing a few details he sometimes stands near to the guy and pretends to make a phone call so the guy could hear
'Hi Jerry (the guys bosses name) I'm in the lounge / on the train and can hear Fred (the guy) and he's talking about the mega deal we are putting together for anyone to hear. I want him removed from the project NOW'
Within seconds the call was terminated.
And of course there is the story of some buying up various internet domain names they overheard from a loud meeting held in a coffee shop.
'Hi Jerry (the guys bosses name) I'm in the lounge / on the train and can hear Fred (the guy) and he's talking about the mega deal we are putting together for anyone to hear. I want him removed from the project NOW'
Within seconds the call was terminated.
And of course there is the story of some buying up various internet domain names they overheard from a loud meeting held in a coffee shop.
You don't know who I am.
You don't know what industry I work in.
You don't know who I know.
You probably should stop talking so loudly.