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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 14:05:19 GMT -5
I think living in this box is driving me insane! To my Southeast I have a woman that is on conference calls half the day and she likes to put them on speaker phone occasionally...which is pleasant. Every day at 11 I get to hear the call to her husband where she tells him the stock market prices and how the cat was that morning (this has been for years...the cat is not on death's door) To my left there is a guy that constantly slams his fists on the table when he talks on the phone and does this weird, not sneezing, not coughing thing. It's kind of like he's hacking up a hairball. Behind me the guy who loves corn nuts...or rocks...not sure, but he eats them a lot. He's also the Master Planner and there's a lot of traffic past me to his cube. Southwest. Quiet guy. Hardly know he's there. I like him!  To my right a guy with restless leg syndrome. It seriously sounds like he's jacking off over there ALL DAY. Nobody in front of me. Thank goodness! All three cubes there are empty. I have such a hard time focusing in this environment. When I go to our other facility I have an office and it's absolute heaven. I get so much done. Unfortunately that's very rarely as it's an hour away. I don't know how to tune these people out. I try headphones with music or podcasts, but then I get distracted by that. |
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Apr 26, 2016 14:21:12 GMT -5
how is your stapler?
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Apr 26, 2016 14:21:46 GMT -5
Need some freezer space?  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 14:22:07 GMT -5
STOLEN! That and my scissors! |
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Apr 26, 2016 14:22:29 GMT -5
STOLEN! That and my scissors! Burn the place down!!!!! |
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Post by debthaven on Apr 26, 2016 14:23:10 GMT -5
Can you ask the woman not to put her calls on loudspeaker?
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Post by kittensaver on Apr 26, 2016 14:25:07 GMT -5
Can you ask the woman not to put her calls on loudspeaker? Or get a headset?  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 14:27:59 GMT -5
Can you ask the woman not to put her calls on loudspeaker? Or get a headset? She has one, we all do, but for some reason she likes to just flip it to speaker sometimes. Partially so the engineer in the cube next to her can hear (the fist slammer). WHY she can't just invite him to the meeting so he can call in as well I don't know. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 14:31:30 GMT -5
Can you ask the woman not to put her calls on loudspeaker? I'm the type who will never say anything to anyone, then one day show up with a gun and everyone will be like "she was so quiet and nice". |
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 26, 2016 14:36:55 GMT -5
You can come to my office. People bring treats in all the time (don't know how good an idea that is), the lady a little down from me always has candy, the guy behind me do jellybean shame certain people though. But only the ones that deserve it. We have nerf gun wars. We even go out for drinks after work. My office full of cubes is fun.
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Post by dannylion on Apr 26, 2016 14:42:11 GMT -5
Noise-canceling earphones.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 14:42:41 GMT -5
Sweets would be helpful.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 14:43:41 GMT -5
It's funny because it's supposed to "bring us all together", but everyone is sitting around wearing headphones trying to block out everyone else.
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Post by alabamagal on Apr 26, 2016 15:01:06 GMT -5
I have a nice office with a window (since December!) but there are some cubicles right outside my door. The people assigned to the cubes don't use them, but today some guys from a different department are using them due to construction in their area. I am hating my one day of having neighbors, so using my headphones/closing door as needed.
The guys there have very loud voices. One guy is retiring in August, the other 2 are contract guys that are leaving in a month. All talk has been about retirement activities and travel in-between places to exotic locations. Ugggggg.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:03:37 GMT -5
Restless leg guy just showed up with a huge bag of Cheetos and the other lady is on a conference call.
I'm going for a walk.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 26, 2016 15:05:31 GMT -5
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Tuesdays! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:08:10 GMT -5
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Tuesdays!  |
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Post by MJ2.0 on Apr 26, 2016 15:17:52 GMT -5
STOLEN! That and my scissors! Did they put you on cockroach duty? |
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Post by Pants on Apr 26, 2016 15:20:42 GMT -5
Sounds like somebody has a case of the Tuesdays! Invest in noise-cancelling headphones rather than podcasts. Ask your boss if you can turn up the white noise in the office. GO TO THE CONFERENCE CALL LADY AND TALK TO HER. "Hey. I don't know if you know, but when you have calls on speaker I can hear all of your conversation. I know that you may not mind that, but I do find it distracting. I'm one of those weird people who is crazy sensitive to noise. I'm investing in noise-cancelling headphones as well, but would you also be able to keep your calls to your headset?" |
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 26, 2016 15:24:26 GMT -5
Restless leg guy just showed up with a huge bag of Cheetos and the other lady is on a conference call. I'm going for a walk. I did that once at a job but took my purse and keys with me  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:26:38 GMT -5
Restless leg guy just showed up with a huge bag of Cheetos and the other lady is on a conference call. I'm going for a walk. I did that once at a job but took my purse and keys with me Oh man, that would be so awesome. |
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Post by gregintenn on Apr 26, 2016 15:29:47 GMT -5
I did that once at a job but took my purse and keys with me Oh man, that would be so awesome. What's stopping you? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:31:27 GMT -5
Restless leg guy just showed up with a huge bag of Cheetos and the other lady is on a conference call. I'm going for a walk. I did that once at a job but took my purse and keys with me If it wasn't for the fact I need the health insurance for DH, at least until August, I'd do it too. After I shove the manager I loathe into the oven and roast him. |
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 26, 2016 15:33:06 GMT -5
I did that once at a job but took my purse and keys with me If it wasn't for the fact I need the health insurance for DH, at least until August, I'd do it too. After I shove the manager I loathe into the oven and roast him. Nothing like "take out" when you quit your job.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:35:00 GMT -5
The lady that used to be in the cube next to me would sniff. I counted and it averaged 20 times a minute.
When asked if she needed a tissue, she would say "no, why?"
ARRRGGGHHHH!
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 26, 2016 15:36:32 GMT -5
get yourself a pair of noise cancelling headphones. I have these - JVC HANC250my last job, my three neighboring coworkers were louder than construction noise. my boss actually approved me to expense the headphones after spending about 15 minutes at my desk one day that everyone was in rare form! I'm not actually sure why the three of them were placed with us, b/c they weren't engineers, but there they were. one woman did tax stuff, she would beat the hell out of the number pad on her keyboard, as well as sigh loudly and mutter under her breath when things didn't add up or applications weren't working properly. in corner #2, I had the admin for the VP in the corner office just beyond her. she would routinely dial phone calls via speaker phone, and only pick up the handset when a person answered. if that meant being on hold for 15 minutes listening to muzak, that meant all of us got serenaded. but the prize was the woman in the last cube. her job function meant that she was only actually at her desk about half the time. but, that half time was spent mostly on the phone as she worked in lab support and dealt with lots of logistics. she was a friendly and gregarious woman, and many of her calls included laughter and conversation b/c she had great rapport with her customers. unfortunately, she laughed like a hyena.  imagine my surprise the first time she hung up the phone and muttered under her breath about how incompetent the person she had just been speaking to was.  unfortunately that also was a regular occurrence. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:38:23 GMT -5
Oh man, that would be so awesome. What's stopping you? That pesky thing called money. Quitting my job with two kids that depend on me...probably not smart. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:39:00 GMT -5
To my right a guy with restless leg syndrome. It seriously sounds like he's jacking off over there ALL DAY.
I also had one of those in my previous life/job. I used to call him Thumper.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:40:04 GMT -5
I'm a bit of an oddball when it comes to work environments. I can only work in very quiet places like my office or in constantly loud places. It's cubeland that I can't get used to. It will be very quiet until someone is loud -like fist slamming guy, nail clipping guy, lullaby singing woman, or let me tell someone nearby very loudly the intimate details of my life woman. Give me an office with a door or a corner in a warehouse and I'm a happy camper. That's me! I'm happy as a clam on the production floor. More and more I'm thinking I should just go back there. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:43:56 GMT -5
What can a person do to prevent those things from driving them insane?
Wouldn't noise cancelling headphones block out pages, your phone ringing, and people actually talking to you?
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