Colleague on speaker phone

[KinCat]

A new manager has joined and he's always making calls on speaker phone! He sits right behind me so even though he has the volume fairly low it's still really annoying.

We have a meeting room literally 5m away for exactly this purpose but he can't be bothered to move his computer in there every time he wants to call someone on speaker.

He's more senior than me. Do I politely point out that we have a room for call that need to be on speaker? Wear headphones and suck it up (although then I wouldn't hear my boss calling for me when he wants something)? Passive aggressively start a loud conversation when he's on these calls so he has no choice but to switch to a normal call?

I meant to say, he's more senior than me but on a different team so I never report to or work with him.

A real person needs to speak to your colleague quietly in one of those side rooms and tell themm to stop. Omg that would drive me round the bend.

This would also drive me round the bend.

I think I would approach him in a spirit of helpfulness (even though he must already know this) and say, "Graham, did you know there's a meeting room over there? It's good for those speaker phone conversations as it gets pretty noisy in here."

What a dick. Another example of man spreading. Can you ask your boss to move desks? Say your productivity is suffering as well as the quality of your work. Perhaps if you do your boss will take the hint and talk to him.

Don't move desks op. Why should you have to? He needs to be taught consideration for colleagues. Dick that he is.

Maybe I'll have a word. My junior has noticed it and been annoyed too.

It's not even necessary! Really banal conversations like the other day he was speaking to his boss about allocating a particular junior to a task (with said junior stood next to him listening in). That backfired on him a bit when his boss started slagging off the junior saying he should assign someone else etc. He quickly switched off speaker phone! Hasn't stopped him doing it though...

Dickhead

I had a boss who did this. Drove me mad. I hated calling him when I wasn't in the office as I couldn't hear him properly. I think it's a form of territory marking. Just rude in my book though.