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AIBU to find this rude?

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booksandbakinglover · 04/04/2025 16:46

Picture this: you have a professional round doing electrical work on your house. They are on a personal phonecall the entire time (in a different room to you, but it’s on loud speaker and you can hear the entire conversation… however it’s in a different language so you can’t understand it).
Are you finding this rude?

(To add: you can’t get up to close a door because your baby has fallen asleep on your lap😅)

edit: it’s not the fact I can’t understand it that I find rude, but the fact he’s on a personal call on loudspeaker

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mondaytosunday · 04/04/2025 16:58

Maybe if they are quite loud you could ask them to quiet down a bit because baby is sleeping. And having a baby asleep on me wouldn’t stop me from moving (in fact it was exactly a time to put them down somewhere so I could get on with stuff).

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booksandbakinglover · 04/04/2025 16:58

skippy67 · 04/04/2025 16:54

How do you know it was a personal call if you can't understand what they were saying?

You’re right, I’m assuming it’s personal because the electrical company is English and the customer services are English, but I guess his boss or someone could be from the same country as him🤷🏻‍♀️

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bluedelphiniums · 04/04/2025 16:57

I would find that rude. If someone called me at work, I'd say, sorry can't talk atm, I'm at work, and keep it brief and discreet. YANBU.

Dazzlemered · 04/04/2025 16:57

I’d just be worried that they weren’t 100% concentrating on my electrics.

Smallmercies · 04/04/2025 16:56

pearbottomjeans · 04/04/2025 16:54

YANBU, so annoying and disruptive. He could at least use headphones like everyone else, then you’d only have to hear one side of the conversation.

It could have been an unexpected call? Not everyone has ear buds.

Smallmercies · 04/04/2025 16:55

Maybe his mum rang him from Poland with an important update on her health - maybe he'd been waiting ages to speak with his immigration lawyer - maybe his kid rang him from Romania to tell him about their football victory - I guess you'll never know! And presumably it was on speaker because he needed his hands free?

skippy67 · 04/04/2025 16:54

How do you know it was a personal call if you can't understand what they were saying?

pearbottomjeans · 04/04/2025 16:54

YANBU, so annoying and disruptive. He could at least use headphones like everyone else, then you’d only have to hear one side of the conversation.

Ilovelurchers · 04/04/2025 16:53

As long as it isn't effecting their work I wouldn't care.

Did he ask first? I guess that's the polite thing - it's what Uber drivers tend to do for example if they want to take a call (I always say yes because I don't mind).

What would you have said, had he asked?

Freshflower · 04/04/2025 16:52

Annoying more than rude

PaintYourAssLikeRembrandt · 04/04/2025 16:50

This wouldn't bother me at all, they are in a different room so it's not rude imo.