Is it courtesy to say someone's on speaker, or does it make you look suspicious?

Anele and the Club on 947 · Jun 5, 2026 · 20m · transcript

Ivan has sparked a debate online after questioning something his wife does whenever she gets a work call in the car. He says they were driving together when his wife's boss phoned. The call automatically connected to the car's Bluetooth, but before the conversation started, his wife immediately told her boss, "Just so you know, you're on speaker and my husband is in the car." The husband says he found this strange because if the call is purely about work, why should it matter whether he's sitting there or not? He argues that work conversations should be professional enough that it shouldn't…