The speakerphone paradox

[u/NeighborhoodJust1197]

I was at the pool today when a woman started having a conversation on her phone using the speaker.

I politely asked her if she could not use the speaker and pointed to my headphones.
She said, “I don’t have headphones.”
So I said, “You can just hold the phone next to your ear.”

She looked at me with a completely blank expression and said, “I’m on speakerphone.”
I said, “Well… that’s the problem.”

Apparently, we had reached the limits of modern technology.

[u/YVRJon]

Yeah, that sounds like a temptation to be resisted. HR might not find it very funny.

[u/Secretstar2989 → u/YVRJon]

Yeah I figured they might be all "blah blah blah harassment" and "blah blah blah investigstion" and "blah blah blah, your employment is terminated"

[u/YVRJon → u/Secretstar2989]

Good call.