I've spent some time in waiting rooms like most other people have.
Doctor's and specialist's waiting rooms, dentists, lawyers, accountants and countless other waiting rooms besides. I'm not a huge fan of waiting around and those waiting rooms are often cesspools of germy fucken humans, but it's sometimes unavoidable.
Recently I was in the hospital because I've got an ongoing health thing which will kill me if I don't keep on top of it and I found myself, of course, in a waiting room. What was I doing there? Well, I was fucken waiting of course!
Anyway, whilst I was waiting the two ladies at the reception desk were talking to each other.
Loudly.
Way too loudly.
The conversation wasn't really bad per se, but they were talking very loudly and the discussion and comments were inappropriate for random patients in the waiting room to hear. I say patients, but in truth is was just me.
Still, it felt quite unprofessional and it sort of bugged me that those two people seemed not to care that I could overhear them. I probably shouldn't be overly surprised I guess, people seem quite oblivious to others and don't seem to care that their conversations are overheard these days; in fact they often broadcast all their personal stuff on Facebook without a second thought, so why not in person? Fucken weirdos!
Anyway, I figured I'd put this out there and ask if you've had any similar things occur like overhearing an inappropriate conversation, or any interesting or odd situations that have occurred while you've been in a waiting room.
Feel free to share in the comments.
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Yes! I have been in a shop where a cashier was on her phone and having a heated conversation with someone. Meanwhile, several customers were roaming the store shopping and could not help but overhear. I thought she should be fired! Sorry, inappropriate place for that.
Of course, sometimes it's just customers, walking down isles in the grocery store, slowly pushing their cart around, shopping and having a personal gossipy conversation out loud as if they were at home where no one could hear. Nobody seems to care about spreading their personal happenings all over..... anywhere.
I too think it is because social media has gotten people used to just saying any old thing where everyone can see and think nothing of it. So many seem to have no appropriate social manners.
It's unattractive..... and sometimes very annoying.
Yep, it's not really appropriate and not just from th subject matter but also from the fact the person is there for customer service.
The two I refer to here were complaining about a colleague, they were being quite strong in their language and me tioning names and all. Nothing a customer/patient needs to be involved in.
I agree about general people as well, loud phone conversations that no one else really needs to hear. Stupid.
Your social media comment, that's where I lay a lot of the blame as well, like it's reduced the efficacy of people's filters and removed them altogether in many cases. Manners relax then disappear, courtesy and respect, (for others and self), and it's a slippery downhill slope from there.
Remember manners? Remember courtesy? Remember having them? (I do, and still have them...most do not.) Entitlement has replaced it a lot of the time. "I can do and say as I please, who are you to say otherwise!"
Assholes.
I have noticed the same thing. Some workplaces lack professionalism these days. I've been in restaurants where waitresses are cussing the cooks. Stores where clerks are rude to people they are checking out. Store workers who's pants are falling down. You name it. Yep even in the hospital I have heard workers talking about other patients issues or worse, their own personal BS.
Hope you are doing okay and got things sorted.
Exactly my point, it's like people's filters and overall care factor is literally nil. What happened to decorum, manners and courtesy? All generally gone with a select few upholding the standards.
I'm ok, thanks for your thoughts. Just a check up on a system I have to use for the rest of my life to keep me alive. It's working well so all good.
Glad to hear all is good and the system is working. The alternative kinda sucks :-)
Yeah, we as a society have digressed into a bunch of slobs.
I can't disagree on both counts. Death is pretty final. I mean, I'm hard to kill, died many times and simply brushed off and came back to life (I'm stubborn like that). As for society, I have no time for most people and little hope of a change for the better any time soon.
You and me both.
Many times I am forced to sit with strangers at shippers and receivers.
I usually step outside. I do not play that game of tripping over each other to be first at the
Cookie Jar✓ in window. Wankers love that game.Yeah, waiting in lines isn't my thing. I do it of course as it's generally unavoidable, but I don't have to like it. I imagine there's some total cunts in those locations you mention.
My wife and I were at a restaurant just today with our great niece and this old guy was having a loud phone conversation the next table over. It wasn't inappropriate, but it was pretty inconsiderate...
Yep, that happened too. It's like people have no regard for any but themselves, no manners and basic courtesy. I was raised differently and have managed to continue as I was taught, but I think society has relaxed their manners and it's now become the norm...I think also that multiculturalism as changed matters; influx of people from cultures with different umm, social standards let's say.
Oh in the public health it's common they do the fuck they want... Last blood take i did they were talking each other about gossip and the only words they told me was "sit here" and "goodbye" in between their talks... In private is totally different
The service I received wasn't great, but I was more interested to see (hear) those two talking as they were about the subject they were talking over so that anyone in the waiting room could hear. I'd certainly not want my staff doing that, but like you say, it was a clinic in a public hospital and I guess people just don't seem to give a fuck these days.
They exploit the fact that there's no real owner and no one can check them... It also happens at town hall or postal service office
Well said, and exact right. (Same here.)
Nowadays, this happens everywhere, not just in waiting rooms. I have even heard couples arguing on the telephone because they speak so loudly, or gossip about families, or speak ill of someone who is not even there. There is no need to speak so loudly that everyone within earshot can hear you.
It's like anything and everything is ok to broadcast which, of course, sensible people know is not the case.
Of course, I keep quiet and say what I have to say at home or speak quietly on the telephone, far away from other people. They don't need to know anything.
Some people are just stupidly loud without realising it and some people have hearing problems without realising it.
One of J's relatives is just LOUD (everyone else reckons it's because they were the youngest in their family and thus had to scream to be heard XD), they've gotten slightly better as they've gotten older (I like to pretend that I helped with that as I try not to but I often cringe slightly whenever they get too loud because it hurts my ears).
And there was another person that we had to work EXTREMELY HARD to convince to go get their hearing checked as they often talked VERY LOUDLY, could not understand why we kept requesting the use of "inside voice" (because in their heads they weren't even talking that loudly) and when the possibility of a hearing problem became more and more obvious they were EXTREMELY RELUCTANT because "I'M TOO YOUNG FOR HEARING AIDS" (we reminded them that hearing impaired people of all ages exist and they're not special xD). Life changed dramatically when they finally got the hearing aids and could hear better but it did not help their speaking volume in the slightest.
Sometimes I've had to talk loudly to be heard (especially at work where everything is too loud) and I hurt my own ears. I keep telling my kids not to make me yell because it hurts my ears (I don't have to yell much as they're good kids).
I wouldn't mind overhearing things, would be good dialogue research, but stupid audio processing issues means I actually have to eavesdrop if I want to do that x_x
Yeah, having a loud voice is one thing, it happens. Whining, bitching and moaning about colleagues with foul-mouth vitriolic dialogues in front of patients in the waiting room, like the two I mention in this post, is quite another thing altogether in my opinion. I suppose some would think it's ok of course, uncouth fucken wankers that is.
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