What are your Top 5 annoying soundsWhat are the Top 5 annoying sounds at your office? Mine are: 5) Snapping fingers. Whenever this one guy gets up, he snaps his fingers non-stop until he sits back down. Totally annoying. 4) Snorting. Another guy has a really bizarre snorting habit. When he starts, he snorts 5 times, then pauses for 5 to 10 seconds, and then snorts another 5 times. 3) Hissing like a cat. My annoying cube neighbor makes this really bizarre hissing noise, as if he were a cat. I've never heard any other human being make that noise. I have no idea what he's trying to accomplish. 2) Pseudo-mouthwash noises. Another guy has an equally strange habit. Whenever he fills his cup with water, he takes in a mouthful, but instead of swallowing, he makes a swishing noise for 5 seconds, as if he were using mouthwash. Then he swallows. Before this guy, I had never heard anyone make that noise in an office environment. 1) My annoying cube neighbor's loud typing. (Dis)honorable mentions: - My annoying cube neighbor's loud sighing and yawning - Whispering. Whispering is extremely annoying because you can't help but try to listen in and hear what the whisperers are trying to hide. And they may not be trying to hide anything; they might just not want to disturb others. But I would find it less annoying if they just spoke in a normal volume.
Like I posted earlier I am "blessed" with a minor hearing loss from all my years of working as a bartender in loud music environments. There are only a few peoples voices that I can hear - but sometimes with my hard of hearing status it does drive me nuts when people KNOW I am hard of hearing and they always insist on starting a conversation as they are walking by and I have to say HUH ? all the time. Or someone will start talking to me from their desk and I will have to say wait wait wait, I cant hear you and then get up from my desk and walk over to them to hear what they are saying. I would bet that my constant HUH's would be on the list here of annoying sounds if people I used to work with were out here. lol Not so much the sound, cause I cant hear them most of the time but the looks of gum chewing and blowing bubbles - c'mon you are in your 30's or even up to 50's and you work in a professional environment - do you really need to chew gum like a 12 year old ? Ugh ! But the main thing that is like nails on a chalkboard is a gal I used to work with that had a nervous cough and it wasnt a normal cough but a bone chilling, cut through the air type of cough. It would literally make me jump when she did it | |
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