Mine too. You know what bugs me most about it? It's not the fact that it's noisy and crackly and tinny, and that I can hear an obnoxious conversation I don't want to hear (along with everyone else in earshot). It's the that the actual audio quality is so fucking horrible (the other side is likely also using speaker phone too, so you've got two shitty speakers blasting shitty audio from shitty microphones deliberately tuned to catch every fucking noise in the environment just to capture the voice of the caller) that it actively fucks with the conversation and forces both participants to constantly ask "what'd you say?" or "huh?" and repeat themselves a dozen fucking times.
So it's not only rudely blasting their conversation loudly to everyone nearby, it's actually fucking up the conversation in the first place, making it harder for both participants to hear and understand each other. And the best part is it also makes people lazy, so they aren't even actually paying attention to the conversation anyway, and even when the other speaker is clear and can be understood, sometimes the listener just ignores it. Or they'll both go silence for a minute or two at a stretch, crackling paper or plastic or whatever they're doing. We get to hear all that shit too. They're having a conversation of significantly-diminished quality and duration, ignoring each other half the time, and they're bothering everyone else with it.
Can't just hold the phone to the ear -- gotta have both hands free for whatever fucking reason. A $20 fucking bluetooth earpiece would solve that problem instantly. But they won't fucking do that either.
Assholes.
