To be annoyed that neighbour talks all day

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We have opposite facing balconies and every day this summer she sits outside doing conference calls. She talks so loudly and starts from 8am til noon then again in the afternoon. I get that she’s a Very Important Person in a Very Important Job but it’s driving me crazy.

This weather is so hot and I need to keep the windows open or else bake. No matter which room I go to (it’s a small flat) all I hear is her droning on and on whilst I’m trying to do my own work.

AIBU to get a megaphone and yell at her to STFU????

My ndn does this too, every afternoon on video calls. I put the headphones on and listen to something more interesting.

its a small flat, sound travels. You work at home, so does she. Inevitably you’ll hear her

Put the radio on loud, on your balcony while she’s in a call. Switch it off when she finishes.

@Zone2NorthLondon

if she sat inside, even by the window, it wouldn’t travel all the way through my flat.

The woman over the road from me is excessively loud. Her mouth starts at 7am, shouting, hollaring, she talks to shouts at her husband and kids like shit, she has the most obnoxious fake laugh. Her kids are just as excessively noisy as she is.

I almost lost my mind trying to sleep after nightshifts. I'll never understand people who are just obscenely loud.

Not my ndn thankfully but her friend- I'm sure she's a very nice woman but no volume control, still less an off switch. It was torture when she would stand outside and talk at ndn thru the window in lockdown. I feel your pain.

YANBU, this fucks me off too. I crank up the Archers omnibus.

Oh god you might live across the road from my neighbour. The inane fake laughter (when she clearly doesn't understand what's been said or what's actually funny). I would love to stick a hatpin in her.

It’s the sense of entitlement that is so annoying. It really doesn’t take much imagination to understand that maybe your neighbours don’t want to hear you jabbering all day. And the fake laugh, don’t get me started!

Have you tried asking her politely to stop?

This would pee me off, can you take a radio out on your balcony and turn it up quite loud!

My neighbour is like this. A loud obnoxious man that works from home and shouts rather than talks. Can't stand him.

He went away for a fortnight and it was bliss.

Why? Given audio travels it’ll annoy everyone inc the immediate neighbours
if it’s an adjacent flat expect to hear neighbours part of living in apartments

Just drown her out with your own noise.

so in that case the neighbour would be right to crank up her sound too
retaliatory noise just escalates and encourages the neighbour to crank it up

My neighbour is like this, she's just doing normal things but apparently has no volume control. It never seems to cross her mind I dont want to hear every detail of her life and considering some of the conversations I'm surprised she wants them broadcast anyway!

I try and resign myself to it - I've got a speaker up and downstairs so I just hit Alexa as soon as I come home and hope it will drown it out a bit. I do wish people could be more considerate though.

I treated myself to a first class rail ticket - 2 twerps in the carriage (whose company no doubt paid for their ticket) talked loudly into the air the whole journey.
Like the OP it's not the calls is the loud voice which is not needed with modern zoom etc

I would suggest you wait until she is on a call and then go into your own balcony and make your own call. Don't speak any louder than you need to, don't play loud music, no fake laughter, just let her know what it's like to be trying to work when somebody else is making that kind of noise. If she comes back to you about it, just say something like 'yes, it's annoying isn't it'.

We have a two storey block of flats behind us which has a balcony which there is no planning permission for, it was meant to be a Juliette balcony. The previous tennant used to stand leaning over the edge of his balcony and broadcast his phone conversation to the whole neighbourhood. We got to know all about his divorce, when his deliveries were coming in, about his kids he didn't see, how hungover he was. Everything. We also didn't like walking into our own garden as it felt he was watching us. He has now moved and we have a lovely mostly quiet woman living there who doesn't feel the need to have phone conversations there, though we can hear her in the flat, but that doesn't bother us.

I would suggest this. She doesn't even need to be on a call. Just make a pretend call conversation on your phone. That way she'll get the message that you can hear everything she is saying and hopefully move back inside when she needs to make calls.

If she does not appear to get the hint, then yes, do it everytime she starts up a call on her balcony.

I once rented a flat where the woman next door spent all day screaming at her young kids, especially when they were in the garden. She had a very loud and grating voice and she wouldn't have been out of place on a market stall.

I've never understood these women who scream at children - surely it must affect their development. Nobody wants to be screamed at.

You have my total sympathy.

Fake a phone call to your friend about your piles and athlete's foot.

Maybe she will realise how calls can be heard...

I also have a neighbour who likes to conduct her business calls outside in her garden at the top of her voice. I find it very odd indeed. YANBU

Or alternatively she’ll think you have a sore arse and sore feet
neighbour call about sore arse,sore feet unlikely to correlate with other neighbour call volume

Entitled is the wrong word. It’s inconsiderate, and possibly lacking in awareness (although some people like sounding busy and important) - it’s not really entitlement. She is perfectly entitled to be on her phone at home.