If you do this, please stop
Please stop laughing out loud while chatting on IM.
Please stop burping every minute while drinking.
Is it that you have a complete lack of self awareness?
Or did no one ever teach you manners?
Or is this just how people act in your culture?
It is in our culture.
We like to belch, laugh and pass gas.
dp
You are speaking my language, IT! Here are a few more:
How about hearing your every phone conversation that involves selling your house (as if anyone cares)?-There's a little conference room with a door you can close less than 5 feet from you where you can yak as loud as you want. In case you, O Mighty Coworker, haven't noticed, I go in there when applicable. Maybe you'll learn from my example one day.
Or, using the "dead" part of the department as a golf fairway? No matter that there are a few of us sitting there actually trying to WORK. No need to ask us as a professional courtesy if we mind hearing slapping balls against walls and the loud victory afterwards. We, The Few, don't mind. Fore!
Oh, and then there's the tossing of the tennis ball against the wall repeatedly while on a sales call....no, I am not concentrating on something that involves hundreds of millions of dollars, It's mere chump change (and my a$$). No worries. I don't have bills to pay. I am just here for the amusement of seeing how the other half lives.
How about being in the next room, in a corner, around the bend, and still hearing everything you say quite audibly?-without even trying to listen? I can even hear you through a closed door. Yes, it's true, I live to hear your constant chatter all day, every day. I love hearing about nothing.
Oh, but if *you* smell my faint mist of body spray that was applied lightly that morning (and not reapplied since-and it's not strong at all-just a hygiene thing), and it's late afternoon, the scent has faded, I get an email on how *you* can smell it. Wait till you get my email on you microwaving your fish that you brought for lunch...again....
TG
Here's a classic from the old board:
http://community.monster.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=214705
Yo DP-
It may be our culture, and most may love to fart, burp and laugh, but in an office setting it's rude. When you're in close proximity, no one wants to hear anothers' bodily functions.
And I say this, liking to do all three of the above mentioned with great zeal -just not on the job.
All the Best,
TG
That was awesome!
I will need to revisit that thread so I can read all the pages.
Good Topic! Needs to be reiterated again and again.
People don't realize that while their habits may not necessarily be "bad", per se, that when they are in a group environment, it not just 'them' anymore. They have to share the space with others, and in a quiet office, small sounds are amplified. Maybe we are the few oddballs that are super-aware of our surroundings and have a sensitivity to the big picture that most don't.
Peace,
TG
The - loudly repeated and irritating - use of words/phrases - in every conversation:
"Awesome!!",
"No Problem!!"
and, especially,
"EXACTLY!!!"
And, please....keep the voice down. You're in a cube and can be heard, understand?
add
Brillant
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Whatever
- PLEASE...........if you have nothing to do, DO NOT sit at your desk staring at me while I am doing my work. Just don't. Find yourself some other entertainment. Better yet, ask if I need help.
To the girl that sat across from me:
- Chew your potato chips with mouth shut. I need not know how many chomps it takes for you to swallow your chips.
No. Way.
I am so glad I have an office with a door, even if only for a moment.....