Annoying people you sit by at work

[TheNinja]

I have "guy that talks to you about everything and repeats his sentences 10 times even though you are giving social clues to go away, like "do look at him", say "I'll take care of it in a second", and say "hold on I'm in the middle of something".....nothing can stop the talking machine!"

 

[IEC]

I have a shared office, wall opposite the door is basically a giant window.

Win.

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I have "guy that talks to you about everything and repeats his sentences 10 times even though you are giving social clues to go away, like "do look at him", say "I'll take care of it in a second", and say "hold on I'm in the middle of something".....nothing can stop the talking machine!"

Try the headphone trick - just look away and put headphones on and ignore him. It usually works.

 

[SuperjetMatt]

One guy is constantly browsing net, making personal phone calls, or bullshitting with fellow cube farmers.
Another guy is usually asleep or away from his desk to bullshit with others.
If I didn't have my ipod & podcasts, I'd go insane.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I have "guy that talks to you about everything and repeats his sentences 10 times even though you are giving social clues to go away, like "do look at him", say "I'll take care of it in a second", and say "hold on I'm in the middle of something".....nothing can stop the talking machine!"

LOL, reminds me of the receptionist at my office. I am careful not to talk to her except a quick "hello," because if I do she will babble on and on about something stupid, and even when I'm walking away she will keep talking as if I'm there.

Oh, and she's always talking about something that she doesn't like. First it's too hot in the office, then it's too cold. First the tree out front had branches hanging in the way of the path, now they trimmed it back too much. And yes, I realize the irony of complaining in a rant thread about someone who rants.

 

[olds]

I work outside. I have to dodge cars going 70 MPH.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I have an office on the 16th floor with a floor to ceiling window.

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I work outside. I have to dodge cars going 70 MPH.

Doing twat?

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
I have an office on the 16th floor with a floor to ceiling window.

Maybe, but your home is a shit hole without that rug.

 

[I Saw OJ]

Originally posted by: Drako

Originally posted by: nerp

Originally posted by: Drako
I've got the slurping gulper guy in the next cube.

Every morning, he gets a cup of coffee, sits at his desk, slurping and gulping every 15 seconds. Does this until the cup is dry, then proceeds to do this 3 or 4 more times during the morning.

I hate slurpers. Just because it's not ice cold doesn't mean you need to eat it like soup, motherfuckers.

...the gulping was worse. I swear I did not know that a human could make so much noise swallowing liquid...

:Q

 

[JDMnAR1]

Originally posted by: m0mentary
<-- Unpaid Intern with own office, Dont hate

Why would we hate when you are working for free?

 

[TheNinja]

Originally posted by: Drako

Originally posted by: TheNinja
I have "guy that talks to you about everything and repeats his sentences 10 times even though you are giving social clues to go away, like "do look at him", say "I'll take care of it in a second", and say "hold on I'm in the middle of something".....nothing can stop the talking machine!"

Try the headphone trick - just look away and put headphones on and ignore him. It usually works.

he'll just stand there and talk anyway. I was on the phone the other day and he just stood right outside my cubicle for like 4 minutes. I read about 4 different threads on ATOT and looked up like 4 times total as he told me the exact same story he just told me 2 hours ago...over and over again for like 7-8 minutes. I try to just ignore and not say anything mean though b/c sometimes I feel sorry for him.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: scorpious

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I work outside. I have to dodge cars going 70 MPH.

Doing twat?

70 MPH!

 

[PepePeru]

let's see...
the greasy haired, anti-showering, hacking cougher with a a case of Asperger's syndrome in a 45 yr old, 300 lb body.

 

[oiprocs]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: scorpious

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
I work outside. I have to dodge cars going 70 MPH.

Doing twat?

70 MPH!

I don't get it. Are you Frogger?

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: G Wizard
let's see...
the greasy haired, anti-showering, hacking cougher with a a case of Asperger's syndrome in a 45 yr old, 300 lb body.

Oh god, I hate that guy.

 

[pontifex]

2 cubes to my left is a guy who constantly complains loudly about the customers he is working with. he also occasionally snorts up his snot (like he has a runny nose) extremely loudly.
guy 2 cubes in front of me constantly swearing at the software we use and smacking/pounding his keyboard.
guy near the front of the room is a rude know-it-all

 

[GrantMeThePower]

Right in front of me this lady is CONSTANTLY talking to herself.

"hmm, whats this?"

"1, 2, 3, 4....128,030"

"oh no!"

etc

 

[nageov3t]

we have open "cubes." I've got unix + development to the left of me and windows support to the right.

the unix/dev guys are kind of annoying... they're kinda like what I imagine the typical AT'er to me like; boring married old guys who spend all day talking about bbq's, fireworks, guns, and whatever just got posted to slashdot. windows guys are marginally more interesting, they usually spend all day talking about video games.

I'm actually by myself half the time I'm at work anyways, though, so it's hard to complain too much... but if we ever open up a new office, I'm totally jumping ship if it'll mean having actual cubicles or even a shared office.

 

[gevorg]

www.head-fi.org

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
I'm lucky... the cubes in my office are spacious and they use taupe walls instead of the typical battleship gray ones. And I have a window.

But anyway, my neighbors aren't too bad. The woman two cubes down has an annoying high-pitched squeaky laugh so whenever she's on a personal call it can get annoying, but she's not on the phone THAT much.

"Just a moment"

Do you see the married squirrels outside your window?

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: joutlaw

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. Just a moment...

http://www.entertonement.com/c...na-Kinna-McInroe-geek-

MotionMan <------ Has an office with a door that locks

 

[Born2bwire]

I swear constantly. I don't really care too much as when I shared an office with a mormon but my coworkers here all speak English as a second language, so, fuck it.

 

[Slapstick]

I have my own office but it does little good when the guy across the hall has crones disease. When he's on a roll all the air freshener in the world can't eliminate the smell from the entire floor.

 

[Bignate603]

I've got a few people around me that will all conference call into the same call without using headsets. It makes it so you're hearing the same thing from 2 or 3 different directions. I really don't need to listen to somebody else's call in surround sound.