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Rant: My coworking space membership in Chiang Mai failed me completely
Honestly, I thought joining that fancy coworking spot in Chiang Mai would fix my productivity issues. But after 3 weeks, the wifi kept dropping every 30 minutes during client calls. I paid $200 for a month pass and I could barely send an email without buffering. The staff just shrugged and said it was the monsoon weather. I ended up working from a 7-Eleven parking lot just to hit a deadline for a project from Sydney. Ngl, I wasted a week trying to make it work before I just canceled and found a quieter cafe with a fiber hookup. Anyone else have a coworking space that totally let you down?
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joel28013d ago
Man that sucks. Reminds me of this place I tried in Bali last year. Paid for the premium plan cause they promised "enterprise grade wifi," ended up hotspotting from my phone for two days straight cause their router kept giving up. The owner tried selling me a smoothie while I was on a support call.
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tessawebb13d ago
The smoothie thing is wild but honestly not even the weirdest thing I've seen at a co-working space. One time I was in a place in Portugal where the guy running it kept a parrot on his shoulder while he was giving tours of the space. The parrot would squawk every time someone mentioned a pricing plan, like it was part of the sales team or something. I swear he was trying to train it to say "unlimited coffee refills" but it just kept yelling "FIVE EUROS" at random people. Hotspotting from your phone is the universal co-working experience at this point though, I've done it in three different countries now.
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