Life is too short to only have one phone charger.

I’m all for winging it, and carpe diem, and rolling with the punches, but there are three things certain in this world.

Death. Taxes. Your phone battery running out.

Because of this, you think ahead, and you have one charger in the office. You also have a charger in your laptop bag, for when you’re working on the go.

You have a charger somewhere near to the living room (preferably within reaching distance of the couch), and another next to your bed, which you use overnight to ensure that you start the day at 100%.

Hell, I even have a power bank, which can charge using solar power, for when I venture out into the great outdoors, and a plug point is a thing of the past.

Where am I going with this? Well, enter the person with a complete lack of anything resembling foresight, and their propensity for just sommer plugging into your charger when they see fit.

I’m clearly not alone with this gripe, because tech website giant The Verge feature it in the first episode of their ‘unofficial guide to tech etiquette’ series:

Our new series Tech Etiquette is about calling people out the weird, quirky, and sometimes infuriating things humans do with technology. May these personal confessions be the unofficial guide to tech etiquette we all need.

Nothing inspired this series more than working in an open office where your phone charger is up for grabs to literally anyone within reach.

The first episode is all about these lawless creatures.

Here’s The Verge’s Instagram post covering this heinous crime:

 

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It’s bad tech etiquette to take other peoples’ phone chargers. Technology turns people into weird creatures — and not the Instagram filter kind. It breeds gross behavior, like texting on the toilet, or tempts you into swiping through somebody’s entire camera roll when they show you just one picture. Since there’s no official manual to tech etiquette, we’re launching an animated series documenting our personal tech peeves. Our new series, Tech Etiquette, is about the weird, quirky, and sometimes infuriating things humans do with technology. What’s your biggest tech peeve?

A post shared by The Verge (@verge) on Nov 15, 2019 at 6:00am PST

The battery percentage comparison conversation is all too real. Wow, I’m sorry you failed to plan for one of life’s great eventualities, so please, by all means, inconvenience me in your quest for power.

Now clearly, on the scale of things to worry about in this world, the phone charger conversation is quite low on the totem pole. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t irk people, so best be aware going forward if you’re the office power charger parasite.

As they say in the classics, fail to prepare and prepare to fail.

[source:verge]