[Food] Teams meetings in cafes and coffee shops

[Mellotron]

I can see no reason for anyone to need to do Teams/Zoom or voice calls in public but then again, when I was young my parents always checked I had 10p for a phone box when I went out just in case.

In my job, my appointments are booked for me by an engagement team.

I will usually have 2-3 appointments in a day, a mixture of in-person and remote, so if the remote meeting lands inbetween two in-person meetings, I have to find somewhere to hold that meeting. If I don't have reliable internet signal in my car, I'm not sure what choice I have?

I fully agree that it is really not ideal and I'd far rather not do it.

 

[Weststander]

I often meet 3/4 business contacts in a cafe enviroment. In a cafe because it is first thing and nobody wants to drink alchohol. Owners seem to be happy with the £30/£40 we spend

The same here, the occasional pub too. We naturally kept it low dB, not impinging on anyone else’s peace.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

Thankfully not living in Yorkshire it doesn’t apply

 

[Kosh]

We’ve got a senior manager at work who takes over small offices, hosts his Teams calls standing up whilst doing Yoga and other various stretching techniques - all with his camera on …

I’d imagine he’d think nothing of doing the same in his local Costa…

I’m not sure what he manages tbh, but he certainly manages to PISS me off on a regular basis.

 

[Kosh]

This is it. I'm still the right side of 40. I don't want to click my fingers and suddenly I'm 60 and still "not got round to it".

It might not work out, and I might come back to my current job cap in hand in a few years. But I owe it to myself to try.

God, I had you down as 50 at least… !! I apologise for aging you prematurely - in my defence, the avatar and user name had me thinking you were some-kind of Ziggy era burnout

 

[clapham_gull]

I often meet 3/4 business contacts in a cafe enviroment. In a cafe because it is first thing and nobody wants to drink alchohol. Owners seem to be happy with the £30/£40 we spend

Do they draw the line at a drama based break out session led by an out of work actor called Clive and a conflict resolution advisor with a degree in Sociology from a minor University still dealing with the break up from her partner and an obsession with social engineering ?

.. Or is that worth another round of lattes and biscotti ?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Glad to see many cafes are banning people from holding intrusive, annoying meetings in cafes.

Some still seem to embrace it though. There’s one I stopped going to as they had some guy in there most days with a Madonna mic on and he paces around the cafe hosting his meeting.

These aren’t particularly young people. Average age seems about 30yrs.

Like no headphones on public transport, it’s part of the “ME FIRST” culture I see so much of these days.

Is it WFH, the lockdowns, a general growing lack of consideration for others that makes people think they can just treat the world as their front room?

And it’s not confined to the younger generations.

What the heck is going on and why are so few people challenging it?

Sit right nextt o them and play loud music or YT videos on your phone.

 

[BadFish]

God, I had you down as 50 at least… !! I apologise for aging you prematurely - in my defence, the avatar and user name had me thinking you were some-kind of Ziggy era burnout

The right side of 40 is 40+.

Don't we ban the under 40's?

 

[Cotton Socks]

I agree.

My reservation about challenging teenagers or young people with no headphones on the bus is that I challenge them and they comply because they are young girls or boys….

… and then some massive hard nut bloke gets on, playing music with no headphones.

Then you have the whole bus looking at you thinking “go on then…”

It’s a minefield.

I asked some teenagers at the back of the bus, if they could turn it down as my mum had just died and they were playing a song that she really liked & it was a bit 'raw'. I have no idea how I kept a straight face, they apologised, turned it down or off, I can't remember. I do wonder if they chatted after about how old this person was that loved a 2020's dance track as I probably seemed about 70 to them. Age is no barrier to liking types of music.

Public transport combined with phones and music does my head in. Some bloke yesterday managed to have headphones on but I could hear the other person he was talking to on the phone, he did realise at some point that people could hear his partner shouting at him & switched it to go to his headphones. Then I was a teeny weeny bit gutted to not be able to find out what she was cross at him for!

 

[BadFish]

We have quiet carriages over here. The idea is that people are quite in them. These are usually less noisy than the other carriages but far from quiet.

Do you have them?

 

[Cotton Socks]

We have quiet carriages over here. The idea is that people are quite in them. These are usually less noisy than the other carriages but far from quiet.

Do you have them?

Errr nope!!! Have you ever been on a train the UK?

 

[BadFish]

Errr nope!!! Have you ever been on a train the UK?

Between Berwick and Brighton a few years ago a few times.

Probably not the full experience.

 

[Cotton Socks]

Between Berwick and Brighton a few years ago a few times.

Probably not the full experience.

You might still be OK on that route.

 

[hart's shirt]

The right side of 40 is 40+.

The right side of 40 is 0.

 

[BLOCK F]

Back in the day, when I was working for a living, and before the proliferation of coffee shops, I often used hotel lounges for meetings and such like. An absolute essential when travelling all over the country.

 

[portlock seagull]

We have quiet carriages over here. The idea is that people are quite in them. These are usually less noisy than the other carriages but far from quiet.

Do you have them?

Chiltern line does, and it’s generally respected but then the first few stops are mostly incredibly posh places to live and I think it reflects the customers using the train more than anything eg middle class / decent law abiding respectable people mostly. And occasionally me also!

 

[HeaviestTed]

Am I the only one who thought this was about football teams meeting in cafes? Like fab and the boys were in the cafe in shoreham?

 

[ditchy]

In my work there have been times where I have needed to take a video meeting whilst at a cafe/hotel etc (because I needed internet or some work space, would do it in my car otherwise if necessary etc), but I always do my best to put myself in a quiet corner and try to be as inoffensive to other patrons as possible.

Can you not explain that you are driving and cannot video ?

 

[The Clamp]

Am I the only one who thought this was about football teams meeting in cafes? Like fab and the boys were in the cafe in shoreham?

Yes, I would think you probably are.

 

[The Clamp]

Back in the day, when I was working for a living, and before the proliferation of coffee shops, I often used hotel lounges for meetings and such like. An absolute essential when travelling all over the country.

I think hotel lounges are pretty much set up for this purpose .