For people who work in Cubicles

[BigJimbo]

AHhhh my neighbor is playing " I beleive I can fly" and hes a grown man...and the other day....a guy was singing.....whats wrong with these people!


post some instances of your wierd office mates

 

[Aharami]

the guy working behind me is a 6'5" heavyset man with a voice of Zeus! every time he speaks, its like someone is yelling in my ears

 

[Brutuskend]

This pretty much says it all!

 

[PTCvette]

Luckily for me, my cubicle neighbors are pretty boring. Nothing funny ever happens around here, which is no fun, but at least they don't get on my nerves 🙂

Jeff

 

[torpid]

I have a lot of stories about the phone. There is a natural evolution of a person who is given a phone with speakerphone capabilities here (not everyone has one). First they use it only once in a great while. Then they start using it for conference calls. Then they start using it when they want to type while talking. Then they use it all the time. Then they turn the volume WAYY up and use it all the time. The last and final step is a merger with the other phone problem below.

The other problem is people who will use the phone to speak to someone 1 foot away. The brain seems to make them think that just because there is a small cubicle wall [separating them], they can't possibly hold a conversation at a normal volume with the person. I can usually hear both sides of the conversation perfectly well. The epitome of this is when a manager uses his speakerphone at insane volume to call someone sitting 1 foot away from them, and then the speakerphone version of the person's voice is louder than it would be if you were actually an ant living in their larynx.

 

[WhiteKnight]

There's a guy in my lab that talks to himself all the time. When I first started there I would respond and he's just say, "Huh, what? Oh, nothing, nothing..." and go back to work. It's hard to ignore him because it always seems like he's talking to you even when he's just talking to himself.

 

[OrByte]

One cubicle neighbor was in this blues/jazz/gospel band. He would constantly be calling up his buddies and singing to them on the phone.

He was actually pretty good!

He had this whole sexy ladies man voice when he was talking to women...it was classic!

he is on medical leave for cancer right now though.... 🙁

Back at my old job there was this nutty psychologist who would get on the phone and cuss out his friends before they actually started having thier conversation. Things like:

*answer the phone* "I can't stand it anymore...I'm gonna rip your fvcking heart out and cook it in the microwave!'

*bust up laughing*

conversation begins....

I miss that nutty doctor.

 

[nakedfrog]

Me and a couple other guys have ongoing rubber band battles.We had a Bananaphone feud going on for a while, but we were lightly reprimanded so we had to stop that 🙁