Monday, June 11, 2012

"Other People" and other such bizarre concepts

I continue to wonder why people still yell into their phones as if they were a part of two-cups-attached-by-strings system. Microphones are very powerful, data transfer speeds are high, and noise cancelling, and data correction is as advanced as it could be in our day and age, and yet people still yell into their phones as if the concept of someone being far away necessitates increasing the volume of your voice. All modern smart phones will adjust volume on the receiving end to an audible value, and will still allow phone users the flexibility of increasing the volume.

People who use cell-phones on public transit are the worst. As if a train car has now become a substitute for these peoples' living rooms and they have the freedom to blab as loud as they want on their phones. While we are on the topic of ranting about others' cell-phone usage....why do people on cell phones in public...pace up and down? Stand still and talk quietly on your phone. It's not that hard. What? Do you feel like an animal trapped in a cage? Stop trotting up and down and whisper into your phone. If the other person doesn't get all the details of your miserable day, and they are so inclined, they will ask you to repeat yourself, in which case, you can tell them to turn up the volume on their phone.

In the office, in an open-plan office, people wax poetic on their phones as if there is no one else around them. It doesn't matter whether it's a Cell-phone or a Desk phone, since most modern desk phones offer the capability for receiving parties to turn up the volume. If you are in an open plan office, when you talk on the phone, other people don't need/want to hear what you are going on about, so let's keep it quiet okay?