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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 26, 2016 15:44:53 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 NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 26, 2016 15:46:58 GMT -5
What can a person do to prevent those things from driving them insane?
Add a dash of booze to your morning coffee? I'm no help when people drive me insane I hide downstairs in the animal room. I got plenty of work to do down there and nobody wants to help.
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Post by dannylion on Apr 26, 2016 15:47:11 GMT -5
Ombud has a raccoon you could probably borrow to create a distraction from the monotony of office life and provide some entertainment in your cube farm. It probably wouldn't make it any quieter, though.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 15:47:59 GMT -5
What can a person do to prevent those things from driving them insane?
Add a dash of booze to your morning coffee? Get a tranquilizer dart for those Nerf gun wars.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 16:00:11 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?
I really am losing it. I was ok for a few years, but lately it's just more and more that I can't function. I've been coming in on weekends sometime just to get caught up when it's quiet...which sucks because I'm hourly and I come in for free.
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Post by sarcasticgirl on Apr 26, 2016 16:04:33 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?
I really am losing it. I was ok for a few years, but lately it's just more and more that I can't function. I've been coming in on weekends sometime just to get caught up when it's quiet...which sucks because I'm hourly and I come in for free. what?!?! you should be getting paid for that. Isn't that ILLEGAL? headphones! I currently have headphones in and netflix playing on my phone. I listened to some podcasts earlier. I use it as back ground noise... Though, I am lucky I have a corner cube. Window behind me, conference room to my right, no one in the cube in front of me, and 1 guy to the left of me. Mostpeople in his group are super quiet. it actually weirds me out sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 16:11:09 GMT -5
I really am losing it. I was ok for a few years, but lately it's just more and more that I can't function. I've been coming in on weekends sometime just to get caught up when it's quiet...which sucks because I'm hourly and I come in for free. what?!?! you should be getting paid for that. Isn't that ILLEGAL? headphones! I currently have headphones in and netflix playing on my phone. I listened to some podcasts earlier. I use it as back ground noise... Though, I am lucky I have a corner cube. Window behind me, conference room to my right, no one in the cube in front of me, and 1 guy to the left of me. Mostpeople in his group are super quiet. it actually weirds me out sometimes. Probably, but I have to justify OT and I should be able to get this stuff done. My area used to be pretty quiet, but then there was an influx of new blood the past year or so. I have "ok" headphones, not great. I'm going to look into new ones. I was trying to stream Pandora today and either they're having trouble or my browser is no longer compatible because it wouldn't work. Ended up listening to Dave Ramsey podcasts.
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Post by dannylion on Apr 26, 2016 16:25:43 GMT -5
Do you have an iPod or other MP3 player or music stored on your phone? You could just listen to music.
My employer provided Bose noise canceling headsets to people who had to use headsets for work. I do not recommend them. They were expensive and delicate. There are other, more effective noise-canceling headsets that do not cost as much. The Bose do have a certain entertainment value, though. When you turn on the noise-canceling feature, for a moment if feels like your brains are being sucked out through your ears. (Not everyone found the sensation entertaining. I thought it was a hoot).
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Post by chen35 on Apr 26, 2016 16:33:32 GMT -5
Maybe listen to a white noise app with your headphones? There are some good, free ones out there.
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Post by msventoux on Apr 26, 2016 16:35:48 GMT -5
I was coming in on weekends and evenings during busy season at times when no one else is usually around. The person I was trying to avoid started coming in as well. I finally lost it on her and told her to either shut the fuck up or go home that I had been coming in at these times to avoid her and wasn't going to listen to her any more. She teared up and started apologizing. And has been blissfully quiet ever since. Not my finest moment, but it worked.
I did buy an expensive pair of Bose noise-cancelling ear buds, but they came after my blow up and I haven't had to use them yet. I'm considering sending them back.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 26, 2016 16:44:03 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. admittedly, that's actually part of where my screenname came from. I would shake entire auditorium rows of seats my freshman year in college, between RLS and just being damn cold in those lecture halls. my nickname already had the 'ch' start, so the boys added the end of 'shiver' to it. that's why I pronounce my screen name "CHIV - er" as opposed to "CHIVE - er"
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 26, 2016 16:47:01 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?
for me, no. I don't have them up loud enough to completely block everything, just loud enough to be background noise at a constant low volume to use as white noise. my officemates now know that they just need to snap my attention and I can hold a quick conversation without having to take the headphones off. obviously I pause my tunes and taken them off if it's a long involved thing, but to answer a quick question? no problem.
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Post by dannylion on Apr 26, 2016 17:01:23 GMT -5
I was coming in on weekends and evenings during busy season at times when no one else is usually around. The person I was trying to avoid started coming in as well. I finally lost it on her and told her to either shut the fuck up or go home that I had been coming in at these times to avoid her and wasn't going to listen to her any more. She teared up and started apologizing. And has been blissfully quiet ever since. Not my finest moment, but it worked. I did buy an expensive pair of Bose noise-cancelling ear buds, but they came after my blow up and I haven't had to use them yet. I'm considering sending them back. I would have preferred the ear buds to the over-the-ear type, but we were provided with the over-the-ear type. The big ones. They did not stand up well to being tossed across the room in frustration or flung over a cube wall at a coworker who had just uttered something remarkably stupid.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 26, 2016 17:17:03 GMT -5
Do you have an iPod or other MP3 player or music stored on your phone? You could just listen to music.
My employer provided Bose noise canceling headsets to people who had to use headsets for work. I do not recommend them. They were expensive and delicate. There are other, more effective noise-canceling headsets that do not cost as much. The Bose do have a certain entertainment value, though. When you turn on the noise-canceling feature, for a moment if feels like your brains are being sucked out through your ears. (Not everyone found the sensation entertaining. I thought it was a hoot). What a visual. You folks are cracking me up today
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 17:34:01 GMT -5
Do you have an iPod or other MP3 player or music stored on your phone? You could just listen to music.
My employer provided Bose noise canceling headsets to people who had to use headsets for work. I do not recommend them. They were expensive and delicate. There are other, more effective noise-canceling headsets that do not cost as much. The Bose do have a certain entertainment value, though. When you turn on the noise-canceling feature, for a moment if feels like your brains are being sucked out through your ears. (Not everyone found the sensation entertaining. I thought it was a hoot). They gave us headsets (over the ear) but they're pretty crappy at blocking sound. Playing music is what has worked the best for me in the past but with Pandora not working anymore I'm getting ornery. I would love total silence. Freaks me out when people come up behind me though.
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Post by milee on Apr 26, 2016 17:41:18 GMT -5
MPL, if you find music and podcasts distracting, try one of the white noise type soundtracks. There are different options like rainstorm, rainforest, beach, etc. That might do a better job since you need to drown out random noise.
The guy with the weird not a sneeze not a cough thing might have asthma. I have that weird not a sneeze not a cough thing and my doc said it's actually an asthma thing - think she called it a bronchial spasm or something similar. Sorry, I know that doesn't make it any less annoying. If you're close enough to him, you might be able to suggest that he could see a doc to see if he needs asthma meds. Or if you don't like him, you could neglect to make this suggestion and just hope his asthma eventually kills him; either way might work.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Apr 26, 2016 17:55:56 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 18:08:44 GMT -5
Cubes are evil. The last time I had a real office with a door that opened and closed was in 1995, although I worked at home sometimes after that. It was worse in a previous employer's office in Switzerland; there were 6 of us, including the boss, in one room. Conversations in the office or on the phone might be in German, French, English or Spanish. I was briefly in heaven (I love languages) and then it started to drive me crazy.
In my last job I gave up and brought Bose phones to work. They didn't completely kill the sound of teleconferences around me but they helped.
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Post by MarleyKeezy78 on Apr 26, 2016 18:38:56 GMT -5
Awww, I miss my old office at the best place I ever worked I worked for a construction company as Construction Coordinator and my office had a door and a window that was completely open to the construction guys bullpen type area. I would shut my door but you could just pop your head in through my window I did however have the main copy machine in my office and it kept it toasty for me during the winter! I miss our full kitchen and lounge with leather recliners and foosball table I would still be there is the economy hadn't crashed a nd decimated the company.
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Post by cronewitch on Apr 26, 2016 19:17:50 GMT -5
When she is on speaker phone you don't need to be quiet. Pick up your phone and call someone on speaker phone too. Call your sons and check on their bowel movements on speaker phone or something else she wouldn't want her caller to hear so she put them back off speaker. If she says anything tell her you can't work when she is on speaker phone so that is when you are going to do something else too. At least talk while she is on the phone invite people to come to your cube and talk to you about work and slurp some drinkings.
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Post by tloonya on Apr 26, 2016 22:08:10 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. Open Produce store...you will begging God to be back to the cube. Just a friendly suggestion!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2016 22:57:12 GMT -5
I was a Planner for a few years so I totally understand the traffic/meetings going on in their cube. That role really needs an office because of the disruption it causes everyone else.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 9:01:29 GMT -5
The woman that does the conference calls just LOVES to talk in general. She narrates everything she's doing, talking to nobody...but loudly. She'll be reading her email and feel the need to vocalize. "OMG, I can't believe he thinks we're going to be able to get this EC passed by Tuesday...yadda yadda". The news, what's going on on The Voice (or whatever show she's watching). It just doesn't stop. She just announced she's going to be out of the office on Friday. Woohoo! On the plus side, she's an account manager and goes to customer sites a lot.
<headphones on>
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 9:05:52 GMT -5
I find access to the internet really distracting.
It doesn't matter if I am working in a cube or in an office.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 9:20:57 GMT -5
Internet is definitely a distraction, but it seems I hang out at the boards a lot more when I CAN'T work because my brain is scattered from all the people buzzing. Mindless posting passes the time. Trying to sort through complicated documents I need quiet.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 27, 2016 9:25:03 GMT -5
I changed offices and I am not sitting next to a woman that has a horrid cough. I thought maybe she had a cold, but it has been hanging in there and I wonder if we are going to find out there is something seriously wrong there.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Apr 27, 2016 9:31:58 GMT -5
I changed offices and I am not sitting next to a woman that has a horrid cough. I thought maybe she had a cold, but it has been hanging in there and I wonder if we are going to find out there is something seriously wrong there. Could be. I sat next to a woman with a cough like that, and it turned out to be lung cancer/brain cancer. You just never know.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Apr 27, 2016 9:33:55 GMT -5
OMG, problem child just had two visitors.... Loud, giggly female visitors. 20-something women: why must you be the most annoying people on the earth?
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