Rant: Crazy/obnoxious people in libraries and computer labs

[Dionysus]

It amazes me every time I go to the campus library and computer labs, there's always some tard disturbing our peace. How can you be twentysomething and not understand how to behave appropiately in quiet environments.

I witness people talking on their cell phones and yelling their computers everyday.

Right now, across the lab there's a girl cursing out her boyfriend on her cell phone. There's a guy two puters down yelling at the screen. He also just slammed his book and fist down on the table.

ETA: Three people within minutes told the girl to shut up, a student and two IT people. That fool is still talking. Oh oh, the po po just escorted her out!

[AlexMack]

Haha, my university's lj community has just leaked out into GC! Seriously, there are so many posts about this there. You could make a drinking game from it!

[KSigkid]

If you even try to use a cell phone at my law school's library, someone is there in moments to tell you not to use it. They do a good job of keeping things quiet, although that wasn't always the case at my undergrad.

[SoCalGirl]

When I was in school it wasn't unusual to see people on their cells in the library. Although I was usually more in aw that they got service than annoyed at the call. If you've been to UCSD you know that it's somehow a black hole of cell service. My dad smartly explained it's primarily due to the fact that to west you've got ocean, ocean and more ocean. So where do you think the cell towers are going to be placed? I always blamed the architecture of all the cement slab buildings.

[Glitter650]

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

When I was in school it wasn't unusual to see people on their cells in the library. Although I was usually more in aw that they got service than annoyed at the call. If you've been to UCSD you know that it's somehow a black hole of cell service. My dad smartly explained it's primarily due to the fact that to west you've got ocean, ocean and more ocean. So where do you think the cell towers are going to be placed? I always blamed the architecture of all the cement slab buildings.

Same thing at SFSU... the whole freakin' place is a black hole for cells... there's NO RECEPTION... never thought about the lack of towers in the ocean like a mile away...makes sense BUT... when I'm sitting on the beach... I get reception just fine... so i still say it's the buildings.

[SoCalGirl]

Originally Posted by Glitter650

Same thing at SFSU... the whole freakin' place is a black hole for cells... there's NO RECEPTION... never thought about the lack of towers in the ocean like a mile away...makes sense BUT... when I'm sitting on the beach... I get reception just fine... so i still say it's the buildings.

That was my thought too but it's too hard to argue the logic. Plus, he's a senior systems engineer that specializes in communication systems so I really didn't have a leg to stand on.

[JonInKC]

Good lord, I hated people who wouldn't shut up in computer labs, etc. If they weren't yakking into a phone, their buddy was sitting beside them talking to them. As for people in stores, restaurants, etc., if you're going to talk on a phone go outside or at least use your indoor voice. I have a cell but I generally don't have loud conversations on it in public.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by JonInKC

I have a cell but I generally don't have loud conversations on it in public.

People who are not on construction sites who are using Nextels should be shot on sight.

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

People who are not on construction sites who are using Nextels should be shot on sight.

Is it okay if you're in an ambulance? :P

[ShaedyKD]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

If you even try to use a cell phone at my law school's library, someone is there in moments to tell you not to use it. They do a good job of keeping things quiet, although that wasn't always the case at my undergrad.

I wish my school was more like yours. People treat the group study rooms like an extension of the student lounge. The door slamming is the best, because it happens about once every 30 seconds. Why the doors have to be really heavy and spring loaded, I have no idea. Two people will sit in the individual study rooms and talk, and everyone in the surrounding rooms can hear their conversations. Even on the "ultra quiet/no cell phone" floor, people will have their cell phones vibrate, then they run into the stairwell, open and slam the door, and talk in a normal voice right next to the door, which echos throughout the stairwell - which everyone near the stairwell can hear. I guess considering a lot of these people never went to the library in undergrad, they have no idea how to act in one.

I pretty much hate my library and the inconsiderate people at my school, if you couldn't tell. Don't even get me started on how it closes at 10 on Fridays and 7 on Saturdays, and it keeps this schedule until reading days.

[SigKapSweetie]

I dare you to make noise in the quiet study room of the med school library. A special breed of med students study in there, and those people will kill you. Dead.

[GeekyPenguin]

Our law library has a special zone where cell phones are allowed - just on the main floor and in the stairwell. People still are notoriously bad at being quiet though. One guy insists on exiting through the emergency only door every single day to set off the alarm. We think he's trying to prove something.

I think the worst story is the day two 3Ls were being really noisy in the main reading room - a no-cell phone, no-talking zone. A 1L who is a non-trad and did two tours of duty in Vietnam asked them to be quiet and one of them threatened to crack his skull.

[Dionysus]

Originally Posted by centaur532

You could make a drinking game from it!

That is very true.