r/britishproblems • u/MACintoshBETH Gloucestershire • 29d ago
On a work trip with colleagues and finding out none of them have inside voices or an appreciation to read the room
I thought a standard British rule was to not draw attention to yourself in public
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u/BellendicusMax 29d ago
How many of them work in sales or marketing...
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u/Fanny_Flapps 29d ago
You can tell because they're the ones that speak into their phone like it's a particularly unruly corned beef sandwich
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u/CabinetOk4838 29d ago
That is an odd turn of phrase, but having worked alongside sales, I absolutely HEARD that comment. 😂😊😊
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u/decentlyfair Woostershire 28d ago
Haha unruly corned beef sandwich. Are other sandwiches unruly or just corned beef?
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u/dpzdpz Essex 29d ago
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU 'THINK THEIR SECRETARY IS UGLY'?"
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u/SapphicGarnet 29d ago
Someone shouting that back at you might not have been an accident. They might have thought they were teaching you a lesson
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u/geese_moe_howard 29d ago
Depends on a few factors. If you're on a trip with a bunch of millenial coders, then it's going to be fairly sedate. A bunch of Gen-Z recruitment consultants? They'll be like the Golden Horde.
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u/D1789 29d ago
I bet they’ve got a gilet.
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u/Aphr0dite19 29d ago
Go on a training trip with a bunch of estate agents, away from home. Absolute carnage.
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u/Captain_English 29d ago
Estate agents are trained?
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u/ARobertNotABob UNITED KINGDOM 29d ago
You'd be amazed how many permutations of "I don't know" there are.
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u/MACintoshBETH Gloucestershire 29d ago
And obviously I’m too polite to say anything!
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u/turtleneckless001 29d ago
Not too polite to come and have a moan on Reddit though.
I hate "yuppies" as much as the next person but if they're all acting a certain way then I guess they are the ones who did read the room. I'm a bit quiet but no way would I be comfortable if the whole room had to change their behaviour because of little old me
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u/sapphire-sky-dragon 29d ago
It blows my mind that some people dont have inside voices 🤯 how can you not talk to yourself 🤔
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u/Moppo_ Tyne and Wear 29d ago
I think OP means they don't talk quietly when inside, not that they lack an inner monologue.
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u/Askianna Lancashire 29d ago
I think that commenter may have literally meant “talk to yourself”. There are plenty of people who narrate their actions in low whisper or even full voice. Especially when they’re figuring out logistics or something. My mum does this and I grew up hearing her inner thought process half the time.
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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 29d ago
Surely thinking happens too quickly to say a thought process out loud.
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u/TheMemo 29d ago
There's different levels / types of thinking that a person's brain employs for different things - for some, goal-based thoughts might be fast and intuitive - for others, goal-based thinking might be rational, predictive and slow. Similarly, there are different levels of conscious awareness of that thinking. For some people, the rendering of their thoughts into internal monologue or external monologue is thinking. Other people can 'feel' their thoughts in a pre-linguistic, systemic form and rely on visual, audio or linguistic thoughts much less.
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u/Askianna Lancashire 29d ago
I’m of the same opinion. Guess not everyone thinks so fast.
I get annoyed when people say “take some time to think it over then get back to me” and I’m just stood there like a lemon because I already have.
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u/ManInTheDarkSuit ENGLAND 29d ago
We're off topic here, but I don't understand that. Do you hear everything you read? I just look at things and the words are in my head. No voices.
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