Loud Zoom calls, hogging space, spending a pittance: no wonder laptoppers’ antics irk cafe owners | Emily Watkins

S.At one time, it was socially acceptable to smoke at home, wear these broad crazy relationships, and link your secretary to the bottom. The criteria change, and this is often better. But when it comes to laptops in cafes, Falling from Saleh Since the owners lose patience with the workers, I am pleading with society to reconsider. Don’t take my cafe angle – it’s the only thing that keeps the WFH brigade and their only independent units like me.

My kitchen table, where I do most of my work, fine. It has a window next to it. There is a boiler I can use whenever I love. I can play my own music, make phone calls loud and deport to the sofa when they are very straight. But diversity is the spice of life, and I will really lose my opinion if these are my only options. Yes, I am familiar with the common spaces, but they are full of millions and b) I cannot bear. Fortunately, the uproar of the outside world, and the calming white noise of life exceeds the eavesdropping of my keyboard, is only far away like the closest cafe-now.

Flexibility to work anywhere is one of my favorite things in my job as a writer – however, this great privilege was misrepresented by my Bedouin colleagues on the laptop, to the extent that we risk completely removing it. Screaming for zoom calls, hoging tables While spending the accuracy amountNo wonder that our exotic IRK Cafe Café owners – buy one cup of tea and sit there all day are bad ethics, not to mention bad works.

It is also true that a sea of ​​laptops changes somewhere, from a hallway center to a common space (not discussed, as discussed); There is no doubt that the percentage of laptops to other squares must be carefully paid like our behavior. Fortunately, after years of field research-I have been in this since before the epidemic, if you could imagine-a code of behavior rules has developed to ensure the harmonious continuity of the cafe ecosystems. And you will have to listen, because if we continue to tamper with this, it is the kitchen tables forever, well?

The first rule limits the time of the cafe to four hours, as it spends about 5 pounds each. If you insist on being on the site all day, you should buy at least one meal as well. Second – at all there is no enlargement or phone calls, no exceptions. The mission of the laptop is the smooth integration into the cafe environment, not steamroll with performance productivity. If you receive a call, stay at home or step out, my friend.

After that, you should go without saying that you are taking the smallest table available-do not hang up on four better when you and MacBook only. Also, do not wander in employees somewhere to charge your phone or laptop if there is no clearly available delivery socket – they are present to serve food and drinks, not to facilitate your temporary office. It is clear – clearly – do not play your music loudly; He should not say, but the man I faced in Costa on the last day certainly did not get this specific memo. The fingers have expressed that he is now reading, because otherwise, we have denied the cafes across the ground guaranteed.

In short, do not overlook your welcome, pay your way, and act as if you were grateful – instead of being there. Basically: Don’t take Make.

a lot The British abroad makes me want to crawl under a rock or assuming a French accent, and some of my colleagues run in the fraudulent cafes often It makes me feel shy about a psychological account between them – but despite the bad will of the concept towards us, there is no reason we could not restore the width on the road.

Cafes are not just a fun place to work, but it is natural – as their intellectual origins are witnessing, it has always been a place to care for ideas. Often, the atmosphere of the cafe is often what I need to move with a piece of work that drags his feet – but also, he reminds me of the presence of other human beings (I think most people get this from the offices?). Really, a great value resource for his loss. Just think, if we feel grass, only left kitchens and joint work, I may have to resort to a real job.

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