Guy Gets Annoyed At A Toddler At A Café Because He Wants To Use It As His Office, The Kid’s Mom Calls Him Out
InterviewRecently, a mom of a toddler turned to Mumsnet, a popular UK forum for parents, to ask if she was being unreasonable in a recent incident at a cafe.
According to the frustrated mom, she was having breakfast with her toddler when a man was taking a teams call at a nearby table.
“Toddler was being good as gold in my opinion,” mom explained, adding that the child was babbling and singing but it wasn’t loud. The guy in a video meeting was clearly not happy, rolling his eyes and huffing at them, so the mom did what she thought was reasonable in the situation.
A mom wonders if she went too far by confronting a man who kept huffing and eye-rolling at her and her toddler in a coffee shop
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Remote work in cafes has been getting more and more popular, but not every establishment welcomes remote workers
In the post-pandemic world, remote work has become a norm. And while coffeehouses have always offered remote workers a great alternative to their tiny apartments, away from roommates, family members, pets and kids, recently, the trend has been soaring.
However, not every establishment that sells coffee is well-suited for remote work, experts warn. Luka Sanchez, the owner of Common Grounds Lounge Cafe in Jefferson Valley, New York told Insider that in order to see if remote workers are welcome in a particular cafe, you need to look for a strong WiFi connection and plenty of power outlets. Plenty of seating is another important factor that doesn’t limit people for how long they want to stay.
The mom added this comment explaining her point of view
“The key is to be considerate of other customers,” an expert says about remote work in cafes
Bored Panda reached out to Beth Collier, a communication, creativity, & leadership consultant, to find out what an expert has to say about working remotely in cafes. Beth believes that when it comes to calls in cafes, courtesy is key.
“If a cafe isn’t crowded, it can be OK to have a call, but the key is to be considerate of other customers,” she said. Moreover, Beth suggests “wearing headphones at a minimum, and be mindful of your volume when you are speaking.”
Another point of consideration, Beth added, is to “remember you’re taking a table from other customers, so don’t nurse one coffee and sit in a cafe for hours!”
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“It’s unreasonable to expect other customers to be silent if you’re on a video call in the cafe”
Beth argues that it’s unreasonable to expect other customers to be silent if you’re on a video call in the cafe.
“A cafe is primarily a place to eat/drink, though many may use it as an extended office,” she said. It’s wise to remember that a cafe is not a library, or an office, and as with so many situations, consideration is key, Beth told us.
When asked about this particular incident, Beth commented: “Based on what I read, the mother was not unreasonable. Children can be noisy – but they aren’t intentionally trying to disturb someone’s call or work.”
Moreover, according to the communication and leadership consultant, in a cafe, loud kids (and adults!) are always a risk. “If you need a quiet place to make/take a call, a cafe may not be the best option. The key in any of these situations is consideration – and kindness!” Beth concluded.
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Many people expressed their support for the author
Some coffee house owners are annoyed at remote workers who get too comfortable and don’t care about their products
Some coffee house owners, however, have been annoyed by remote workers who feel too comfortable with bringing their office to a cafe. “We have people come in and without even looking at the menu, ask us if our WiFi works and is it strong and stable,” Katrin Möller from Kat’s Coffee, in Thalpe, Sri Lanka says.
“It doesn’t feel good, when you put all your energy and love into your product and it is very clear that your product is more or less a nuisance, because they have to order something so they can stay, right?”
Moreover, some remote workers may annoy coffee house owners and staff by trying to not spend money while getting a table at their establishment. However, experts say that if you are unable to afford products or want to save money, it’s better to pick public libraries and parks as spaces for remote work.
Others had different views about the whole situation
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Share on FacebookI hate when people take extended calls in coffee shops. It’s very distracting to my work! :p
Go to the F*****G office to WORK! Restaurants/Coffeeshops are gathering places, not work environments. Rude as hell to have phone conversations and take up tables for extended times in these places. If you’re going to Work from home….then GO HOME! No one wants to hear your business!!!
To me, it's a matter of degree. Personally, I prefer working from home because I want the quiet and lack of distraction. Working in a café does not suit my work at all. I don't mind people working in a café as long as they are not parking at a table when things are busy, or being more distracting than is normal for any other customer. Having a quiet conversation is fine, but people tend to talk more loudly than normal on calls without realizing it. I have some meetings where I barely talk and some meetings where I talk a lot. I can't imagine taking one of the latter in a café, but taking one where I'm listening almost all the time would probably fine. I wear good noise cancelling headphones. They do well at not leaking sound, so no one would hear the meeting. I feel the same about people with children. They're not going to be silent, just as people having a normal conversation are not silent. If they get loud, take them outside. Like the meeting, it's just a matter of degree.
Load More Replies...Attending a Teams/Zoom meeting from a cafe is unprofessional. The others in the meeting surely saw him rolling his eyes and huffing puffing, which is also grossly unprofessional. GTFO.
He can huff and puff all he wants but he ain’t blowing no house down.
Load More Replies...The guy is a moron. I'm a remote worker. The last place is go to is a cafe. You want peace and quiet. That's what libraries are for dummy.
Not for meetings or telephone calls! No one wants to hear that S**T!
Load More Replies...If he was annoyed by the noise, that means he wasn't using headphones... meaning he was making everyone in eh café listen to his meeting! He is an absolute jerk.
Yes and the fact she says the world seems to be "anti kid" makes me think shes the problem. That others have not thought little Jonny was "as good as gold" like she thinks
Load More Replies...I am definitely not with the mom on this one. He has as much a right to be at the shop as the mom. And let's be honest, someone rolling their eyes and sighing should not be taken as an attack. There are a multitude of reasons why he could have been sighing that have nothing to do with her. At the end of the day she started the conflict.
I have no problem with people working wherever they can. But they need to come prepared. Three simple words: Noise Cancelling Headphones. Get one with a built-in microphone, and you are all set, my dude.
God there are so few of you. Your comment makes sense, and it makes you look like you actually think things through. Lol Appreciate you.
Load More Replies...Time to play animal noise games with the kid. Lots of clapping & cheering when the child gets it right. I have been known for creating all kinds of noises in public restrooms when I know the guy in the next stall is hogging it up while on the phone with his significant other.
Why no one wants to hear that...NO ONE. Also he never said anything just moved. She say the world is anti kid, maybe she has a annoying child she doesn't parent because hes "good as gold " in her opinion. Probably not everyone elses.
Load More Replies...Generally people do have to buy things, but it is up to the shop policy. We let homeless people or teenagers come in to use our Wi-Fi as long as they don't disrupt the other customers and it's not super busy. But generally our policy as you do have to buy something.
Load More Replies...Maybe he shouldn't have been on a speaker call, but when she said "having a little babble and sing, occasionally pointing out things they seen. “Cup! Cup!”" I could feel it in the back of my neck. What most parents call "being good" drives most other people nuts. Coffee shops may not be offices but they also aren't playgrounds.
That is something I pointed out before. And boy do people really not like that statement. People here who like children have this can do no wrong attitude and it's really cult-like as far as I can tell. We get it they like kids. Doesn't mean parents don't become numb to their volume levels.
Load More Replies...Nope! I don’t want to hear other people’s calls or good God, meetings in a public place when I’m trying to enjoy a nice cup of coffee. Stop being a nuisance!
Everyone has a right to be there. Your tolerance level does not dictate what everyone else should be doing. And that's not just including office workers. That's including all the groups that come into my shop. One person, one karen, does not tell everyone else in my shop what to do. And if you don't like it, I understand and you are absolutely welcome to take your business to another shop that would more readily cater to your needs. If this guy was actually rolling his eyes at the woman and not his own computer, then yeah he's an a******. But this 100% if one person does it then everyone else does it mentality is pretty terrible. I think you should take that mentality and maybe your coffee and go to a park. There's lots of quiet benches there where you can enjoy the view.
Load More Replies...He should have picked the library if he wanted quiet. I think she was reasonable to call out his eye contact with rolling eyes. Once or twice whatever, for 10 straight minutes that's a bit excessive. I don't think she was upset He was working in the cafe. She made it pretty clear she didn't like his rude behavior at her being in the cafe... He's being a nonverbal jerk It's okay for her to say one thing about it. I would have been smiling at his evil eyes, haha. Also If he has his camera on, he better check himself. Boss probably hates somebody rolling their eyes while he's talking more than that woman does.
Unfortunately some libraries or some stupid a*s cities don't actually have the ability for that. If you can't tell I'm talking about mine. God I hate my city.
Load More Replies...As having worked in restaurants for 30 some odd years, I want to say if you are there to work or sit for hours, you had damn well better leave a decent tip. Turning over tables is how wait staff makes money and having a meeting on a laptop in a busy restaurant is very rude. You are not only costing the server but people who are actually there to eat can't get a place to sit because of moochers. Ya, I said it. Moochers! People who sit for hours and expect you to run them coffee for said hours and want to leave you a quarter don't pay the rent. Time is money no matter what the business is. If it is slow, then they may not mind baby sitting you but once the traffic picks up, leave. That would be respectful. And in this country, leave a decent tip for their time.
NTA. I've never saw the appeal of going to a place like a Starbucks and setting up there to work.
I'm a dad and like to take be kids out to public places. I agree coffee shops aren't playgrounds and they're also not meeting/work spaces. They're both in the wrong. He shouldn't have gone to a coffee shop to take a business call much less without noise cancelling headphones and she shouldn't have said anything for him rolling his eyes. What I do when I see people rolling their eyes or huffing and puffing that my kids are being kids I start acting up and making noises with them just to annoy them further.
If you need quietness go to a park sit in your car with a coffee from McDonald's and have your meeting don't expect everyone to act like they are in a library and hush hush .
This reminded me of a family vacation many years ago. I don't recall where we were other than we chose a place with an outdoor pool. We were playing in the water, including a couple of kids from another family, tossing a beach ball about. At some point we realised several men in suits were at the poolside trying to get our attention. Turns out they wanted us to be quiet because there was a business meeting in a suite overlooking the pool and our noise was distracting. Of course we were embarrassed and gave up the game and left, and also checked out the next day. Why the hell have a pool for guests but give a business meeting a pool adjacent room? Then make your paying guests feel uncomfortable for using the facilities? It's been a lot of years but that still annoys me. I wish I'd said sorry, we paid for this pool so we're going to use it. Move your meeting because we can't move the pool. Men in suits. 🙄
I used to work in a coffee shop. There are a few things to unpack here, the first being, they both have a right to be there. - The mom might be used to how loud her baby is, or the toddler could actually be at a normal volume. It's been my experience though, from burbling to screaming, the mom tends to say most of the time (most) that her kid isnt that loud. Food for thought. - The guy is disillusional if he thinks he's going to get common background mumblings from a coffee shop. You get everything from church groups, to teenagers, to anime groups to role players to packs of moms. It's not the place for retroactive quiet, any public space, save a library, but then you couldnt hold your meeting in the first place. -I have a *massive* issue with "everybody's going on about working at home so work at home". Like we're all somehow a hive mind that think and do exact things at exact times. I can't stand people with an inability to separate people from statements you hear online.
Needs to take a side, and you don't, and that's pathetic. Look at a situation for what it is not what you want it to be.
Load More Replies...This makes me think of my husband being annoyed while napping in the middle of the day on the living room couch because the rest of us are doing normal middle of the day things. I mean, go freaking bed. Grrrrrr
Rather than having a Teams meeting in a café, dude should've gone to another locale to conduct his remote work! Some libraries offer workspaces just for that purpose, and most are either free or low-cost! (BTW, if dude thought that his team couldn't see or hear his reactions to OP and her toddler, he's got another think coming! Trust me, they ARE paying attention, and taking notice, and his bosses are NOT happy about it!)
I am lucky and I WFH. I am 100% against anyone who thinks it's okay to have a Teams/Zoom/Conference call meeting in a cafe/coffee shop. Before the pandemic most people would have agreed that it was rude when someone would be on the phone (for any reason) in these businesses. Now people think full blown video calls are okay?? I know the world changed and I am definitely in support of people not going back to the office, but thinking it's okay to infringe on my space (by being on a call, usually you are infringing on someone else's space), is ridiculous. GO HOME (or back to the office)!
Good thing we aren't. My customers tend to be respectful regardless of what kind of work they're doing. Once again, chalk up that 100% assume everyone is an a*****e of they do this thing mentality. You *all* need to work in a store before you garner opinions about an entire group of people you aren't exposed to *every day*.
Load More Replies...People do realize that they can go to the library right? …Right? That at the library there’s relative silence and they can book closed offices to do their video conferences completely free. It’s really disturbing how little people know that there’s more than just books at libraries there’s a lot of resources available to the public at libraries. You can even rent out video games from some of them.
Cafes are there to make money. An idiot using it for a office, doesn't bring any money in. I think all restaurants should have a private room for these Jenks and charge them for the use of it Everybody happy, great for the economy and proof that you can't have everything your way or for free.
EVERYTHING is based on how you handle yourself. I don't hate people who work at cafes as long as they are respectful and its ok with the business. I don't hate kids out in public as long as mom and/or dad do their job as parents that includes not running around, not making a horrible mess, not being load. Yes kids will yell, cry and scream but that doesn't mean you don't leave at that point if you can't get the child under control. My guess is your "reasonable" noise level might be different then mine. Also hes allowed to be annoyed, you can't gate keep that. Did he say anything to you? NO who know it might have been him reacting to his call. The fact you assume its your child leads me to believe your the problem and this isn't the 1st time. You poor prosecuted mom.
*snort* I don't normally like people turning everything into a political statement, but I would be lying if I said this wasn't a close comparison in my mind. Lol
Load More Replies...He's giving you the evil eyes because from his perspective he was minding his own business and one of those Karen moms blew up at him out of nowhere. Guy was probably focused on his meeting, I've rolled my eyes and sighed during meetings because the people on the other side are irritating. Especially if they're coworkers he dislikes. There's no indication he was even aware of or was acknowledging mom and toddler's existence.
Like I commented on the DB above you. I've seen people working in public cafes actually aske people to quiet down because they're in a meeting. We all know this DB was rolling his eyes at her because when it happened to us, we all know it's directed at us. But go ahead and decide the woman was in the wrong. Funny thing is in her post she expected comments like yours.
Load More Replies...Trust me, he was probably trying to impress others with his"dedication" and "committed work ethic", because his home Internet was down ( dur dur dur dur) and he had to settle for this "unreasonably noisy cafe" because he wasn't going to let the team down. Never let it be said that one can sit outside of most any fast food restaurant and carry on just fine with team/interview/zoom whatever. The faces he was making weren't for her benefit, but the ones who could see him online.
Go to the F*****G office to WORK! Restaurants/Coffeeshops are gathering places, not work environments. Rude as hell to have phone conversations and take up tables for extended times in these places. If you’re going to Work from home….then GO HOME!
Load More Replies...Take your own advice man. Grow up and stop shaming a mother for having her kid in a public place. There is nothing more annoying than people who make a lot of noise on their computers and phones. But go ahead and keep mom shaming her. I've witnessed things like this where the person on their meeting was annoyed at the noise in the public space they chose to work and kept rolling their eyes at people. I even saw one man, maybe it was you, who asked some people to quiet down in a cafe because he was in a meeting.
Load More Replies...I hate when people take extended calls in coffee shops. It’s very distracting to my work! :p
Go to the F*****G office to WORK! Restaurants/Coffeeshops are gathering places, not work environments. Rude as hell to have phone conversations and take up tables for extended times in these places. If you’re going to Work from home….then GO HOME! No one wants to hear your business!!!
To me, it's a matter of degree. Personally, I prefer working from home because I want the quiet and lack of distraction. Working in a café does not suit my work at all. I don't mind people working in a café as long as they are not parking at a table when things are busy, or being more distracting than is normal for any other customer. Having a quiet conversation is fine, but people tend to talk more loudly than normal on calls without realizing it. I have some meetings where I barely talk and some meetings where I talk a lot. I can't imagine taking one of the latter in a café, but taking one where I'm listening almost all the time would probably fine. I wear good noise cancelling headphones. They do well at not leaking sound, so no one would hear the meeting. I feel the same about people with children. They're not going to be silent, just as people having a normal conversation are not silent. If they get loud, take them outside. Like the meeting, it's just a matter of degree.
Load More Replies...Attending a Teams/Zoom meeting from a cafe is unprofessional. The others in the meeting surely saw him rolling his eyes and huffing puffing, which is also grossly unprofessional. GTFO.
He can huff and puff all he wants but he ain’t blowing no house down.
Load More Replies...The guy is a moron. I'm a remote worker. The last place is go to is a cafe. You want peace and quiet. That's what libraries are for dummy.
Not for meetings or telephone calls! No one wants to hear that S**T!
Load More Replies...If he was annoyed by the noise, that means he wasn't using headphones... meaning he was making everyone in eh café listen to his meeting! He is an absolute jerk.
Yes and the fact she says the world seems to be "anti kid" makes me think shes the problem. That others have not thought little Jonny was "as good as gold" like she thinks
Load More Replies...I am definitely not with the mom on this one. He has as much a right to be at the shop as the mom. And let's be honest, someone rolling their eyes and sighing should not be taken as an attack. There are a multitude of reasons why he could have been sighing that have nothing to do with her. At the end of the day she started the conflict.
I have no problem with people working wherever they can. But they need to come prepared. Three simple words: Noise Cancelling Headphones. Get one with a built-in microphone, and you are all set, my dude.
God there are so few of you. Your comment makes sense, and it makes you look like you actually think things through. Lol Appreciate you.
Load More Replies...Time to play animal noise games with the kid. Lots of clapping & cheering when the child gets it right. I have been known for creating all kinds of noises in public restrooms when I know the guy in the next stall is hogging it up while on the phone with his significant other.
Why no one wants to hear that...NO ONE. Also he never said anything just moved. She say the world is anti kid, maybe she has a annoying child she doesn't parent because hes "good as gold " in her opinion. Probably not everyone elses.
Load More Replies...Generally people do have to buy things, but it is up to the shop policy. We let homeless people or teenagers come in to use our Wi-Fi as long as they don't disrupt the other customers and it's not super busy. But generally our policy as you do have to buy something.
Load More Replies...Maybe he shouldn't have been on a speaker call, but when she said "having a little babble and sing, occasionally pointing out things they seen. “Cup! Cup!”" I could feel it in the back of my neck. What most parents call "being good" drives most other people nuts. Coffee shops may not be offices but they also aren't playgrounds.
That is something I pointed out before. And boy do people really not like that statement. People here who like children have this can do no wrong attitude and it's really cult-like as far as I can tell. We get it they like kids. Doesn't mean parents don't become numb to their volume levels.
Load More Replies...Nope! I don’t want to hear other people’s calls or good God, meetings in a public place when I’m trying to enjoy a nice cup of coffee. Stop being a nuisance!
Everyone has a right to be there. Your tolerance level does not dictate what everyone else should be doing. And that's not just including office workers. That's including all the groups that come into my shop. One person, one karen, does not tell everyone else in my shop what to do. And if you don't like it, I understand and you are absolutely welcome to take your business to another shop that would more readily cater to your needs. If this guy was actually rolling his eyes at the woman and not his own computer, then yeah he's an a******. But this 100% if one person does it then everyone else does it mentality is pretty terrible. I think you should take that mentality and maybe your coffee and go to a park. There's lots of quiet benches there where you can enjoy the view.
Load More Replies...He should have picked the library if he wanted quiet. I think she was reasonable to call out his eye contact with rolling eyes. Once or twice whatever, for 10 straight minutes that's a bit excessive. I don't think she was upset He was working in the cafe. She made it pretty clear she didn't like his rude behavior at her being in the cafe... He's being a nonverbal jerk It's okay for her to say one thing about it. I would have been smiling at his evil eyes, haha. Also If he has his camera on, he better check himself. Boss probably hates somebody rolling their eyes while he's talking more than that woman does.
Unfortunately some libraries or some stupid a*s cities don't actually have the ability for that. If you can't tell I'm talking about mine. God I hate my city.
Load More Replies...As having worked in restaurants for 30 some odd years, I want to say if you are there to work or sit for hours, you had damn well better leave a decent tip. Turning over tables is how wait staff makes money and having a meeting on a laptop in a busy restaurant is very rude. You are not only costing the server but people who are actually there to eat can't get a place to sit because of moochers. Ya, I said it. Moochers! People who sit for hours and expect you to run them coffee for said hours and want to leave you a quarter don't pay the rent. Time is money no matter what the business is. If it is slow, then they may not mind baby sitting you but once the traffic picks up, leave. That would be respectful. And in this country, leave a decent tip for their time.
NTA. I've never saw the appeal of going to a place like a Starbucks and setting up there to work.
I'm a dad and like to take be kids out to public places. I agree coffee shops aren't playgrounds and they're also not meeting/work spaces. They're both in the wrong. He shouldn't have gone to a coffee shop to take a business call much less without noise cancelling headphones and she shouldn't have said anything for him rolling his eyes. What I do when I see people rolling their eyes or huffing and puffing that my kids are being kids I start acting up and making noises with them just to annoy them further.
If you need quietness go to a park sit in your car with a coffee from McDonald's and have your meeting don't expect everyone to act like they are in a library and hush hush .
This reminded me of a family vacation many years ago. I don't recall where we were other than we chose a place with an outdoor pool. We were playing in the water, including a couple of kids from another family, tossing a beach ball about. At some point we realised several men in suits were at the poolside trying to get our attention. Turns out they wanted us to be quiet because there was a business meeting in a suite overlooking the pool and our noise was distracting. Of course we were embarrassed and gave up the game and left, and also checked out the next day. Why the hell have a pool for guests but give a business meeting a pool adjacent room? Then make your paying guests feel uncomfortable for using the facilities? It's been a lot of years but that still annoys me. I wish I'd said sorry, we paid for this pool so we're going to use it. Move your meeting because we can't move the pool. Men in suits. 🙄
I used to work in a coffee shop. There are a few things to unpack here, the first being, they both have a right to be there. - The mom might be used to how loud her baby is, or the toddler could actually be at a normal volume. It's been my experience though, from burbling to screaming, the mom tends to say most of the time (most) that her kid isnt that loud. Food for thought. - The guy is disillusional if he thinks he's going to get common background mumblings from a coffee shop. You get everything from church groups, to teenagers, to anime groups to role players to packs of moms. It's not the place for retroactive quiet, any public space, save a library, but then you couldnt hold your meeting in the first place. -I have a *massive* issue with "everybody's going on about working at home so work at home". Like we're all somehow a hive mind that think and do exact things at exact times. I can't stand people with an inability to separate people from statements you hear online.
Needs to take a side, and you don't, and that's pathetic. Look at a situation for what it is not what you want it to be.
Load More Replies...This makes me think of my husband being annoyed while napping in the middle of the day on the living room couch because the rest of us are doing normal middle of the day things. I mean, go freaking bed. Grrrrrr
Rather than having a Teams meeting in a café, dude should've gone to another locale to conduct his remote work! Some libraries offer workspaces just for that purpose, and most are either free or low-cost! (BTW, if dude thought that his team couldn't see or hear his reactions to OP and her toddler, he's got another think coming! Trust me, they ARE paying attention, and taking notice, and his bosses are NOT happy about it!)
I am lucky and I WFH. I am 100% against anyone who thinks it's okay to have a Teams/Zoom/Conference call meeting in a cafe/coffee shop. Before the pandemic most people would have agreed that it was rude when someone would be on the phone (for any reason) in these businesses. Now people think full blown video calls are okay?? I know the world changed and I am definitely in support of people not going back to the office, but thinking it's okay to infringe on my space (by being on a call, usually you are infringing on someone else's space), is ridiculous. GO HOME (or back to the office)!
Good thing we aren't. My customers tend to be respectful regardless of what kind of work they're doing. Once again, chalk up that 100% assume everyone is an a*****e of they do this thing mentality. You *all* need to work in a store before you garner opinions about an entire group of people you aren't exposed to *every day*.
Load More Replies...People do realize that they can go to the library right? …Right? That at the library there’s relative silence and they can book closed offices to do their video conferences completely free. It’s really disturbing how little people know that there’s more than just books at libraries there’s a lot of resources available to the public at libraries. You can even rent out video games from some of them.
Cafes are there to make money. An idiot using it for a office, doesn't bring any money in. I think all restaurants should have a private room for these Jenks and charge them for the use of it Everybody happy, great for the economy and proof that you can't have everything your way or for free.
EVERYTHING is based on how you handle yourself. I don't hate people who work at cafes as long as they are respectful and its ok with the business. I don't hate kids out in public as long as mom and/or dad do their job as parents that includes not running around, not making a horrible mess, not being load. Yes kids will yell, cry and scream but that doesn't mean you don't leave at that point if you can't get the child under control. My guess is your "reasonable" noise level might be different then mine. Also hes allowed to be annoyed, you can't gate keep that. Did he say anything to you? NO who know it might have been him reacting to his call. The fact you assume its your child leads me to believe your the problem and this isn't the 1st time. You poor prosecuted mom.
*snort* I don't normally like people turning everything into a political statement, but I would be lying if I said this wasn't a close comparison in my mind. Lol
Load More Replies...He's giving you the evil eyes because from his perspective he was minding his own business and one of those Karen moms blew up at him out of nowhere. Guy was probably focused on his meeting, I've rolled my eyes and sighed during meetings because the people on the other side are irritating. Especially if they're coworkers he dislikes. There's no indication he was even aware of or was acknowledging mom and toddler's existence.
Like I commented on the DB above you. I've seen people working in public cafes actually aske people to quiet down because they're in a meeting. We all know this DB was rolling his eyes at her because when it happened to us, we all know it's directed at us. But go ahead and decide the woman was in the wrong. Funny thing is in her post she expected comments like yours.
Load More Replies...Trust me, he was probably trying to impress others with his"dedication" and "committed work ethic", because his home Internet was down ( dur dur dur dur) and he had to settle for this "unreasonably noisy cafe" because he wasn't going to let the team down. Never let it be said that one can sit outside of most any fast food restaurant and carry on just fine with team/interview/zoom whatever. The faces he was making weren't for her benefit, but the ones who could see him online.
Go to the F*****G office to WORK! Restaurants/Coffeeshops are gathering places, not work environments. Rude as hell to have phone conversations and take up tables for extended times in these places. If you’re going to Work from home….then GO HOME!
Load More Replies...Take your own advice man. Grow up and stop shaming a mother for having her kid in a public place. There is nothing more annoying than people who make a lot of noise on their computers and phones. But go ahead and keep mom shaming her. I've witnessed things like this where the person on their meeting was annoyed at the noise in the public space they chose to work and kept rolling their eyes at people. I even saw one man, maybe it was you, who asked some people to quiet down in a cafe because he was in a meeting.
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