Etiquette in the Lounge - stick your earphones in pleeeeaasse!!!

[leadman]

I was on the Eurostar a few years back and just bought some new earphones. i thought they were the quite ones but after a while to could see from the evil glazes from the other pax they were not. I removed them and apologized profusely, and after that had one of the best open discussions travelling. It did cost me a round of drinks but it was worth it.

 

[Denali]

Delta SkyLounge a few months ago... The sounds of a FFers shaver with your glass of wine?

 

[mel-world]

Some larger lounges do have mobile free zones. If there is a visible sign, I think you are well within your rights to ask the person to move to the other part of the lounge if they are on the phone or watching a program. However, if you are in the general area, I guess it is okay to use your phone at normal speaking levels. I am surprised about the amount of company information people share in a public area while talking on the phone. I can only assume they believe we will not know the company they work for. Thank goodness no airline has approved phone calls during flights (yet).

 

[Melburnian1]

mel-world, very true.

If we were spies we could learn a lot from some individuals' public phone use habits. I even had one lady recently in an airport lounge prancing up and down five metres or so each way, and fairly loudly conversing on the blower. I wanted to say something but instead concentrated on my snacks.

Refraining from these sorts of activities should just be good Christian etiquette (or commonsense.) Yet to a significant minority, it isn't.

 

[Denali]

mel-world, very true.

If we were spies we could learn a lot from some individuals' public phone use habits. I even had one lady recently in an airport lounge prancing up and down five metres or so each way, and fairly loudly conversing on the blower. I wanted to say something but instead concentrated on my snacks.

Refraining from these sorts of activities should just be good Christian etiquette (or commonsense.) Yet to a significant minority, it isn't.

Stare at them, pay attention to what they are saying, nod your head and when they give you a look for eavesdropping, just say, "Well youre the one being loud in a small public space and boring everyone"... but that could be just me.

I did this at the post office recently.

 

[Pushka]

There was one guy in the Mel J dom lounge who was saying the most dreadful things about his partner and what he wanted to do. Bordered on, well, actually was, criminal. To make it worse he was walking around at the time. I think someone reported him eventually.

 

[leadman]

Years ago when the old Ansett lounge was in Hobart, after a large company meeting, a big group of us ended up there talking/drinking etc,. Next day we were all called in and effectively given a final warning about talking/complaining about the company and staff. Seems that the CEO's wife was in the lounge too. Lesson learned very quickly to understand what you are saying and where you are!

 

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

was in the Qatar Doha F lounge last May. The number of guests watching videos using their phone's speaker was shocking to me. The loud phone calls. The only ones doing this were wearing a thawb so no way I was going to say anything, and it's not like the guest workers in the lounge could do much about it.

Maybe there does need to be a chill quiet space, but then that seems like papering over the problem rather than dealing with the issue of a lack of respect the minority shows.

 

[Hvr]

Trouble is this bad behaviour is not confined to lounges. Everywhere people are playing their music/videos etc loudly without headphones totally oblivious to their ignorant selfishness.

I'm starting to join them and watch with them. My comments may or may not be appropriate to the vision on the screen.

 

[maia200]

There was a couple lying across the couches in the Lounge in LA last month both watching a movie on a phone with the loudspeakers on. A quiet word that they were in a public space and we could all hear the noise worked. Not sure they were that happy but we all were.

 

[dajop]

Just listening to a few songs at random on Apple Music this morning and one (from 1993, and I remember it well as it was top of Triple J Hottest 100 ) made me think of this thread. I won't post a link, as it contains quite a bit of inappropriate language, but not too hard to find on youtube. Denis Leary "A##hole". Lyrics such as:

I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane
While people behind me are going insane
..

Sometimes I park in handicapped spaces
While handicapped people make handicapped faces

 

[coyote25]

From the person who can only catch up with family in the lounge. To the person who has to call everyone on the train and then not have enough battery on the phone for Google maps.

Have to say I actively try not to be on the phone on a train. A couple of times I got urgent must answer work calls but I kept them as short as possible with as little as possible speaking from myself in low tones. No PAXs could here the other side of conversation.

I definitely don't like taking phone calls on a train but I see people doing so in a loud voice and sometimes even when on a speaker phone