I was at the Workforce 1 job center when I was on unemployment, taking a Microsoft certification class. It is also the welfare office. The classroom I was in faced the street and had a mirrored glass window. The welfare folks weren’t allowed to use their cell phones inside, so they’d come out and lean on the mirrored window and talk. The conversations were almost exclusively about crimes. Either they were currently high and talking about it, or about buying drugs to get high or about crimes committed to get drugs. One guy was a thief who was talking to a customer who was unhappy with his flat screen. He apologized that it didn’t work and said he had been doing a place last week with a nice one and he’d go back there today to get it for the client.
Another was an enormously fat and unappealing guy who, after his drug buy conversation said he was doing a porn video this afternoon. The entire class looked up and the woman beside me whispered, “maybe he’s the camera man.”
Sounds like the whole class could hear outside conversations very clearly.