AIBU: People talking via speaker phone on mobile!!!

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This drives me nuts!! Has to go to work today as has paper work to catch up on. Figures some nice quite time. I knew the cleaner would be about but that's grand. However about 6 times his phone rang and he proceeded to have very loud conversations via speaker phone with the other person! So I had to head two sides of the conversation.

They only ppl who I see/hear doing this are ppl using a different language. Is it because they assume no one can understand the other person so it doesn't matter. But it still doesn't explain why!!!! It's wasn't FaceTime as I stuck my head out and he was not looking at the phone!!! Drives me nuts!!!

I prefer the speakerphone because I can hear the other person better that way too.

But I don't do it in public though, I agree it's rude to inflict it on other people.

I do this, I don't have brilliant hearing and I struggle with my phone if there is any kind of background noise. I even do it with my landline.

I do go into a different room though if I can, and if I'm out and about I'll keep it short and ring them back when I'm somewhere more suitable.

I'm more of a text person anyway so that helps.

I have a hearing problem so have to have it on speaker.

I hate it too. However the ear bit of my phone is jammed with playdoh and I can't hear anything.

I hate this as well. When people do this at work I usually just go 'Hello, hello? Sorry, this is a really bad line. Hello, hello?'. By this stage the phone is usually switched to normal. Works every single time.

I was in the 'lounge' at I think Newark airport and some twerp had a v loud conversation with his girlfriend for hours. In fact thinking about it it must have been Skype as you could see her, I sat far away but could still hear it.
V annoying - lounge is normally out of my reach.

Some people really have no shame!

I luckily don't take the train to commute but on the odd occasion that I have taken it during rush hour, I couldn't believe the sorts of conversations people were having & the use of speakerphone.

There is way too much over-sharing going on! I do not want to hear your side of the conversation let alone the other person's!

I hate it too and u can't help but overhear. I dislike people on phones in supermarkets. I can't concentrate. Just make it quick and carry out your conversations privately in a stationary car or at home.

On speaker even worse.

My colleagues all make personal calls on their mobiles on speaker phones hence I now know their financial problems ,relationship issues , intimate health problems . I really don't understand why they don't take their phone outside or to a different part of our office than make these calls so publicly to the point you feel like an intruder in your own office ! It's so rude . The worst thing is hearing them having a stinking row with their other half and then they come off the phone and start being quite matter of fact about work again .

Some people really have no shame

So I should be ashamed of my hearing problem.

I too should therefore be ashamed of being deaf and wearing hearing aids 😳
I find it incredibly difficult at times to have a conversation and have to resort to speakerphone but try to do so unobtrusively.
And having an earpiece isn't the answer wasonthelist when you wear two hearing aids.

Once again having a hidden disability highlights the ignorance of some people

And having an earpiece isn't the answer wasonthelist when you wear two hearing aids.

Totally fair point and I apologise.

P1nkP0ppy if you are deaf and have a reason to do it that's fine but I wouldn't hazard a guess that 99% of the ppl who do it don't. Everyone on here who says they have to tries to do it in private only or unobtrusively....they are not the teenagers on the bus who thinks everyone needs to know their plans and gossip or the person in the office who I know fine rightly does not have a hearing issue and it just full of heir own self Importance and no concern in it annoying others.