I've recently arrived back in CM, and approached my favourite coffee shop filled with apprehension. Would it be tainted by cheap charlies logging in for free and working on line?

Yes. So if you are the silver haired gent taking up space in a very small coffee shop near Chang Puak gate, shame on you. It is a COFFEE SHOP. If you want to work, take your laptop outs here and get an OFFICE.

Jeez! Some people are so self-centred. No wonder ex-pats get such a bad name.

I hope they throw you out. These folk need to earn their living.

A coffee shop with free wi-fi?????

Free internet does MEANthat someone can go in and use THE FREE INTERNET

could you have been looking at a mirror by mistake?

Did he have a coffee or something else in front of him that he paid for? If so, why moan - or did he take your favorite seat? (see GOM topic).

Yes...it seems Rob is GOM.

A guy decides to have a quiet coffee,and the use of free wi-fi,and in walks a middle class snob who calls everybody a cheap charlie

If i am in a coffee shop i enjoy chattery, browsing and interaction.

When i see someone working and using up table space in my favourite shop because of this. the overall ambiance of the coffeeshop is comprimised.

It seems coffee-shop owners are faced with a dilemma. If they don't have wifi these days, customers complain (or go elsewhere); if anyone actually uses the wifi, other customers complain.

Welcome to the IT age.

Although often difficult for those born prior to the invent of electricity, you could learn to use a computer...

Why didn't you tell him to do one to his face?

Well hard coming on here whinging about it.

It seems coffee-shop owners are faced with a dilemma. If they don't have wifi these days, customers complain (or go elsewhere); if anyone actually uses the wifi, other customers complain.

Welcome to the IT age.

Fair, fair. Then i suggest working boots(similar as smoking boots) to be setup at starbucks to confine the workers in one secluded space, whilst others can enjoy their socialising air without the disturbance of the workers(read smokers).

Did he have a coffee or something else in front of him that he paid for? If so, why moan - or did he take your favorite seat? (see GOM topic).

No, the guy brought his own sandwiches.

From the Coffee shop owners point of view,the Free Wifi is there to attract customers to come in for a while,have a couple of cups of coffee,and go. Not stay for hours,and use up your welcome.

They have to save every baht they can for their next visa run.

From the Coffee shop owners point of view,the Free Wifi is there to attract customers to come in for a while,have a couple of cups of coffee,and go. Not stay for hours,and use up your welcome.

My friend put in a FREE pool table to attract custom , l said you will attract low life when the word gets around. Was l right ?.

When i see someone working and using up table space in my favourite shop because of this. the overall ambiance of the coffeeshop is comprimised.

"It's all in your head"....

When i see someone working and using up table space in my favourite shop because of this. the overall ambiance of the coffeeshop is comprimised.

"It's all in your head"....

As well as the probability that your pesence compromised the ambiance for other customers.

could you have been looking at a mirror by mistake?

Certainly not. If I had that much hair, I'd be delighted. I now sport a personal solar panel.

Did he have a coffee or something else in front of him that he paid for? If so, why moan - or did he take your favorite seat? (see GOM topic).

No, he didn't have my favourite spot, since that is any seat beside my lady. Had he done that, I'd have been a tad peeved.

When i see someone working and using up table space in my favourite shop because of this. the overall ambiance of the coffeeshop is comprimised.

"It's all in your head"....

As well as the probability that your pesence compromised the ambiance for other customers.

Very well put, daojai. Nevertheless it is "all in our heads", of course .

Judging by a couple of posts in earlier threads, I think I just eye-balled a forum member, but no names, no pack drill. I wonder if he will confess.....

There has to be 10 coffee shops in CM to every CM TV poster.

Tight-fisted

It is a scientific fact that tightening one's fist loosens one's arse, but not vice versa.

Oops...wrong forum...

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Oh God.. it's the WiFi Gestapo.

No Wifi for you!

I've said this before. One of the harder aspects of running a business is getting customers into your place. Once they are in there, and you can't get them to spend, that's a failure of tactics. Still, even after all reasonable efforts, a shop will always have to contend with some freeloaders. It's the cost of doing business.

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There has to be 10 coffee shops in CM to every CM TV poster.

Good.... He can have my other 9 then......

Do not personally do this as i like to use a PC rather than a laptop. But i really dont see what the problem is, so long as a person buys regular coffees/drinks/food.

Easy way for any coffee shop to solve this is to offer internet pass for an hour with your purchase. That way, the person needs to go back again and buy something else.

What is so wrong with someone choosing a more ambient atmosphere to browse the net?

I have a Thai lady friend who regularly spends money in a nice coffee shop and sets up her small laptop keeping an eye on her stocks.

I just dont get what the problem is and why it really would be anyones business. Let the shop take care of it and work out another way, if they are not happy about the situation. We shouldnt have control over how other people utilize something just because we dont utilize it int he same way. ITs sort of like saying a person shouldnt sit on a park bench for several hours because we should all get a turn on the bench. I have a feeling the people complaining dont use the net much for various things. (I personally use my TAB for many things when in a coffee shop. ..reading online newspapers (rather than reading the ones offered in the coffee shop), checking email, maybe logging in here). Is it somehow ok if a person is reading a book or the paper for an hour or two ..or more, if they choose..just because it doesnt look like they are scrounging free wifi??? (..and it isnt free if they are buying coffee etc, they are using the facilities..thats all).

Btw, in saying that, if it was a tiny place with limited seats, then yes, i may get the hump if someone is hogging a whole section for what seems like forever. But again, if they are regularly purchasing, im sure the coffee shop is glad of them.

Will they serve a free glass of water while I decide on which coffee to order?

Unless you own it, have shares in, or pay rent for that shop, it has eff all to do with you quite frankly op. The owner obviously has free WiFi for that very reason and, unbeknownst to you, perhaps the user was filthy rich and donates millions to good causes. As for expats getting a 'bad name', if they do indeed it would more than likely be from whining farts sticking their nose into people's affairs.

And no, it wasn't me.

Unless you own it, have shares in, or pay rent for that shop, it has eff all to do with you quite frankly op. The owner obviously has free WiFi for that very reason and, unbeknownst to you, perhaps the user was filthy rich and donates millions to good causes. As for expats getting a 'bad name', if they do indeed it would more than likely be from whining farts sticking their nose into people's affairs.

And no, it wasn't me.

You sure?..........you really put a lot of effort in that bilge filled post.