You could try talking to the phubbers, but it’s almost never worth spending social capital in the workplace on these kinds of issues.

He gan with guilefull words her to perswade / To banish feare; and, with Sardonian smyle / Laughing on her, his false intent to shade, / Gan forth to lay his bayte […]

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A great storm is approaching our shores.