I said, ARE YOU DEAF?!

Why oh why oh why (etc) do people have to have their phone ringers so ear-splittingly loud? Usually with some toss ringtone that’s barely identifiable due to the speaker distorting like mad. It’s one thing being able to hear your phone when it rings, another when it’s audible in the next Time Zone.

I used to work with a guy who’d recorded his toddler going “daddy, the phone’s ringing!” and set it as his ring tone. Cute the first time it rings, but he had a habit of leaving his phone on the desk with the ringer turned up to 11, and the ringback set for his answerphone. So after his first missed call of the morning it’d ring constantly every ten minutes, until someone accidentally took his phone apart and hid its component parts around the office. After two weeks I’d cheerfully have thrown the bastard in the canal. And the phone.

And now, I’m sat in the kitchen at work, and there’s a woman on the next table texting furiously with the keyclick sound at full whack. It sounds like someone’s emptied a bag of marbles into the sink. WHY?! It’s in your hand, you’re looking at the damn thing, why do you need audible feedback that would drown out a Model M keyboard? Grr, argh.

Yours, Irritated of Tunbridge Wells Accrington.

And breathe

*click*
*click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click*
*click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click*
*click* *click* *click*
*click* *click* *click* *click*

And now she’s deleting what she’s typed by holding ‘delete’ down.

*CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK*

Argh! Hulk smash!!

It is a well-known fact that women are totally unaware of their own noise …

EDIT: and a lot of people are unaware of the concept of “other people”

Haptic feedback should negate the need for any button clicks. Almost as annoying as non-smart Samsung phones which made a noise for everything that the phone did.

You could ask her to mute the clicks as it is a bit annoying ? (And show her how if she doesn’t know)

There is a slight chance she might not actually read this thread, and if that turns out to be the case, then the problem will persist.

sadly modern life seems to make it easier for the rude, inconsiderate and ignorant to have an impact on other people…

all you can do is breathe and do yoga I’m afraid…

D_K, excellent, I loved the Grrr-arrrg end-credits on Buffy!

I used to work with a guy who’d recorded his toddler going “daddy, the phone’s ringing!” and set it as his ring tone.

I used to work with someone who recorded his newborn son’s wailing as a ringtone. He was quite pleased that it annoyed people.

Flaying would have been too good.

Modern society dictates that being annoying is fine, whereas mentioning it is not. Thus all you can do is seethe, safe in the knowledge that the ensuing heart attack will cut short the misery inflicted by these people.

HTH 🙂

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Top quality rant, good work.
And +1 for everything you said.

I’ll add to it the people who talk on the mobile at a volume of 11. Shouting doesn’t help you utter morons!

I knew of one office where if your phone rang out you got the cakes in for everyone.

In the office, mobile with you or on silent/vibrate

My ringtone is the Tarzan yell, I like watching things burn too.

If you think that my ringtone is loud, you should wait to hear how loud I am when I talk on it…

Well … their customised ring tone is to let everyone knows they have special ring tone … look at me! look at me! I have a ring tone. LOOOk!

We had a bloke in the waiting room the other day who actually phoned someone on loudspeaker then proceeded to shout at them for ten minutes holding the phone horizontally in front of his mouth. Wtf is that all about? Utter tool.

I used to work with someone who recorded his newborn son’s wailing as a ringtone. He was quite pleased that it annoyed people.

Flaying would have been too good.
In this case replacing it with a chorus of the office recording “Hi My Name is [name] and I’m a BELL END!”

castration is too good for them. I hate annoying mobile phones.

Moderator problems 😉