Infuriating coworker takes speakerphone calls in open office

But every time you come across someone listening to a Bluetooth speaker out loud on public transportation or doom-scrolling TikTok with their phone at full volume at the airport gate, you can't help but wonder what in the heck they're thinking. The reality is that they probably are just that unaware, or they're asking for attention, hoping to create a confrontation with their antisocial behavior. The same goes for people who elect to have loud phone conversations at full blast on speaker in an open-plan office. Like, they invented conference rooms and headphones for a reason, and if neither of those is immediately available, the phone was originally designed to be held up to your ear for a gosh darn reason.

This worker shared their mounting frustration with their coworker's insistence on talking on the phone, on speaker, in their open plan office, sparking conversation about the antisocial practice and the drawbacks of open plan offices in general, some commenters even shared petty solutions for solving the problem.