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Do You Work Next To Noisy People?

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We had a really annoying lady that answered phones. She is extremely obnoxious and talks very loud, and is also the type of person who laughs at everything even when its not funny.

I complained and she was moved to the other side of the building. 😀
 
Somehow they gave me an office when I first started working here. It's great, I just blast music all day. Only thing is that my office is sorta like a closet so I don't get to talk to as many people as I would like.
 
rpanic said:
Got an old guy in the office that should have been fired long ago, he is like the guy from Office Space with the stapler, just a warm body. Noises he makes are, tapping his feet, snoring, eating that sounds like a zombie eating, drinking water like a cartoon character sound, and blasting movies on his laptop. He also has a lot of smells going on booze, cologne, onions, but this is supposed to be about sounds. Luckily this week he isn’t coming in because he fell and smashed his face so bad over the weekend.
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Haha, wow. Anymore info on this? I'm guessing it has something to do with that booze smell you mentioned.
 
For people that are noisy or ignorant that sit adjacent to me in cubicles, I tend to play the same game back and just let go of any farts that build up without shame. Pretty much a screw you back.
 
Robert Munch said:
For people that are noisy or ignorant that sit adjacent to me in cubicles, I tend to play the same game back and just let go of any farts that build up without shame. Pretty much a screw you back.
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Loudly or silent ones? I dont think I have the courage to let a real ripper sound out in the office. But I will let a silent one go near ones I want to get revenge on.
 
I share a large conference room with another. He sits across the table from me, facing each other, with only monitors partially blocking our view.

-He clears his throat every minute. He says its allergies.
-He itches his leg twice an hour for a full minute.
-He eats alot, and is the noisiest chewer of all time. He makes yogurt loud. WTF?
-He "tsks" right before he speaks. Every friggin time.
 
oh man this is a hilarious thread. i used to think i had it bad with loud people around me, but now i realize my workplaces have been pretty much heaven compared to some of you guys. where do they find such people?? LOL

it's now extremely rare for me to actually be on a phone call, so i don't mind background noise as much, although most of the time I am listening to music with ear buds. the most annoying people i have to deal with are clueless support agents, but at least i no longer have to hear their voices, just chat with them.. ha.
 
NetWareHead said:
Loudly or silent ones? I dont think I have the courage to let a real ripper sound out in the office. But I will let a silent one go near ones I want to get revenge on.
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I try for SBD's but, sometimes the hot stanky ones slip through and I have to get up and leave for damage control to also avoid hearing the moans that may ensue.
 
zCypher said:
oh man this is a hilarious thread. i used to think i had it bad with loud people around me, but now i realize my workplaces have been pretty much heaven compared to some of you guys. where do they find such people?? LOL

it's now extremely rare for me to actually be on a phone call, so i don't mind background noise as much, although most of the time I am listening to music with ear buds. the most annoying people i have to deal with are clueless support agents, but at least i no longer have to hear their voices, just chat with them.. ha.
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At one point in a previous position I sat near a heavier guy who would snap his tongue with every bite of lunch. It was pretty obnoxious and headphones were bothersome because I had a desk job that required me answering phones. At one point I finally asked my manager in to swap desks elsewhere because it disgusting. She was so taken away by me bringing this up that she couldn't even respond or when she did it was in a nervous jittery manner.
 
I don't work in an industry where noise levels make any difference, although it would bother me if I sat next to a loud person and did.
 
We just moved from cubes to "open workspace." This place is loud like an Ikea.

Anyhow, I had my trusty IBM Model M at my desk for many years, but have retired it for home use only for the sake of my co-workers (they claim to like the clicky music it makes, but I suspect that is a lie.)

That said, when I am on conference calls (not on speakerphone, using a headset or normal hand set), often the 75 or so other people in this room can hear me pretty clearly.

I am not the loudest one in the room though. Most of the time Im quiet now that my model M is at home and i am using the crappy scissorswitch keys on the laptop keyboard.

Anyhow, it is impossible to find quiet in order to focus without tracking down an open room or going outside.

Was stuck on a "command center call" for about 5 hours one day last week, and somebody who sits at the far corner of the room was asking me about the call .. hehehe (note: we have a square shaped building with a atrium in the middle, workspaces are along the outer wall of the building, about 6 deep. I am near the center of one wall, by a window. My voice can be heard by all in this half of the building should I decide to speak louder than a whisper.)
 
Also, there is a good echo effect from the atrium, so naturally I make loud noises in order to hear the sound of my own voice.
 
It's usually quiet, except during lunch. An astonishingly high number of people chew as loudly as an average dog.

But thankfully, most of the noisy people are in other departments. Some of the older managers like talking very loudly, as if everyone's threshold for hearing things begins at 80dB.


Imp said:
We should trade offices... I love places where people play music out loud, even if it causes a mish-mash of sounds.

Mines is mostly dead quiet. Engineering = lots of not so social people. I hate it.
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Engineering = lots of specifically-social people. But not particularly talkative most of the time. Suits me just fine.
I'd love it more if the goddamn phone wasn't in here. And if the door was welded shut. Every 5-10 minutes throughout the entire day is some kind of interruption with someone needing something. Product prices need updating, inventory needs adjusting, something needs to get ordered, customer needs tech support, contract manufacturers need help with something... (Yes, this is the "engineering" department. For 0-2hrs a day, I get to do engineering work.)

Part of the reason I went into engineering in the first place was so that I could work with inanimate objects, not people. Unfortunately, management is largely made up of extroverts whose brains attempt logical suicide if anyone even suggests that some people don't like being around others in every damn moment of their existence.


"Specifically-social" - give this sort of person the right subjects to talk about, and they can easily carry a conversation for quite a long time.
 
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Currently only sit next to 3 people all of which are very quiet except one of the guys types really freakin' hard on the keyboard. He mashes the keys for some unknown reason. He also sighs a lot which is odd. It could be much worse so I won't complain.
 
Yup.

Foot tapping, desk tapping, nail clipping, loud eating, singing quietly along with whatever's on their headphones...
 
The network guys used to be in our building, and they were pretty loud. Never really bothered us though, and sometimes they had some rather interesting conversations going on lol.

Takes a lot to bother me, but one thing that does is people who have all sorts of audible alerts on their phones going off every 5 minutes. Turn that shit off!
 
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