Ahh, the office environment

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » October 13, 2005, 9:57 am

Nothing says good morning like flooding rain and annoying habits of co-workers. It sucks that I can't just close my door to this audible nonsense because it gets too frikken hot

Lynks · Post by **Lynks** » October 13, 2005, 9:59 am

Fingernails, do that shit at home.

noel · Post by **noel** » October 13, 2005, 10:06 am

Going to have to go with Voice Mail. Most of the time when I'm working out of the office, I don't pay much attention to what my coworkers are doing, but checking voice mail on speakerphone is kind of unignorable.

Along the same lines, when I used to work in a call center, there was a guy who worked there as well who they ended up buying a remote phone for and telling him to go outside. He talked so ridiculously loud on the phone that nearly everyone else complained about him. Was kind of funny.

Sargeras · Post by **Sargeras** » October 13, 2005, 10:46 am

One of my two bosses checks his voicemail on speakerphone everyday. He says he hates the fact that he gets so many messages, but those of us who really know him know that he loves that he gets messages, and plays them on speaker to make him look "important and busy."

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » October 13, 2005, 11:13 am

There is someone one aisle over clipping their fingernails EVERY fucking day. They must have some kind of growth hormone thing going on. Give me a chalkboard anyday--the clipping is pure torture.

Animale · Post by **Animale** » October 13, 2005, 11:37 am

Clip your nails in the fucking bathroom if you have to do it at work.

Animale

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » October 13, 2005, 11:46 am

I would vote for both if I could. But since I hear a lot more speakerphones around here that gets my vote.

laneela · Post by **laneela** » October 13, 2005, 11:49 am

Fingernail clipping can be ignored. There's nothing worse than trying to concentrate when someone is blasting their voicemail messages on speakerphone.

My least favorite would be people talking on the phone while they're eating...

nobody · Post by **nobody** » October 13, 2005, 11:56 am

just call and leave a message on his voicemail pretending to be his gay lover, i bet he'll stop.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » October 13, 2005, 1:25 pm

I'll go with fingernails.

People check their voicemail? The other day, I logged into my voice mail and it said I had 54 messages.

delete, delete, delete, delete...X 54

Didn't listen to a single one. Eventually, people figure out that to get ahold of me you either email me, see me in person, or are lucky enough for me to answer the phone. Hate voicemail. I think my voice mail message still says I'm out of the office until April 18th (of this year)

Lynnsie · Post by **Lynnsie** » October 13, 2005, 1:43 pm

I'd have to go with voicemail. Where I work, it's a small office ( sole practitioner's law office) so it's just me, the paralegal and the lawyer. When he comes in every morning he checks his voicemail on his speakerphone, including his cell phone messages. Yesterday, there was a message on his cell from his latest flavor of the week. Sounding all sultry " Thanks ___, I had a great time with you last night, I can't wait to see how you'll use your tounge tonight." The paralegal and I (which happens to be my sister) both cracked up. Not only would it be too much information anyway, but this guy is 51 and not in the greatest shape in the world. Needless to say, his face was blood red when he walked into my office before going to a Settlement Conference.

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » October 13, 2005, 2:39 pm

The worst situation is the girl who's the niece of one of the bosses. Her job is guaranteed and she can do whatever the fuck she feels like. Although one of the big rules of the office is "No Cell Phone Use" (take it outside), she will sit on her ass all day and talk on her fucking phone. It doesn't stop. Her uncle will walk by and ask her to do X job for him, and she will sit there with her cell phone up to her ear and listen to the uncle at the same time. How fucking rude.

It's not even that you could hear the cell phone.. it's just the idea that it's there against her ear for 8 straight hours.

Sylvos · Post by **Sylvos** » October 13, 2005, 3:01 pm

I enjoy being a walking HR issue at Adobe.
My coworkers are constantly the victims of my mayhem inducing antics.
I have a coworker, we call him The Bruce.
The Bruce is a nice guy by default, a little slow of speech and his eyes seem half open most of the time. I call him Otterface, why? Because it drives him into a near Berserker rage. It's awesome. You should try it sometime.
Now on the subject of annoyance -
I would find that someone listening to voicemail on speakerphone 100x more annoying that fingernail clipping.
So if someone at Adobe were to do that in my immediate vacinity, I would call after hours to their phone and say loudly "MY NAME IS ______ AND IM LOOKING AT GAY PORN". Pretty sure that would halt any more speakerphone voicemails.

If fingernail clipping really bugs you, take a zip lock bag, and ask everyone in the office/friends to clip their fingernails into the bag. then place contents of said bag on his/her keyboard - dumped out of course.
That should get the message across.

The Bruce likes to drink a large JOLT cola via slurping.
We started to superglue the caps of his drinks shut when he left his desk.
Now bruce brings a sippy cup with a straw.
No more slurping.
I'm almost 100% certain that everyone is plotting against me here. Unfortunately, I am far to canny for their traps. I will on occassion let my guard down, and thats when they strike. I came back from lunch one day to find my chair in pieces. Another day, I left my desk with a PC, i returned to my desk and it had a MAC. IT, man...they have it out for me. I have in my possession a badge that gains access to their rec room. They don't want outsiders there. They constantly attempt to get it back, they have tried bartering, blackmail, kidnapping my hat. All have failed, cause they don't realize I enter their rec room and hold their coffee machine hostage by putting it in the regular break room.
The Office is not a job, it's a battlefield.

miir · Post by **miir** » October 13, 2005, 3:02 pm

Winnow wrote:I'll go with fingernails.

People check their voicemail? The other day, I logged into my voice mail and it said I had 54 messages.

delete, delete, delete, delete...X 54

Didn't listen to a single one. Eventually, people figure out that to get ahold of me you either email me, see me in person, or are lucky enough for me to answer the phone. Hate voicemail. I think my voice mail message still says I'm out of the office until April 18th (of this year)

Everyone I deal with at work I have trained well.
I was off sick for 3 days and I came back to 4 voicemails.

I did however, have 150+ emails.

But on topic, nothing anyone else does in their cube bothers me... probably because my desk/cube is at the far end of our floor in the corner. Nice view and really peaceful.

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » October 13, 2005, 5:17 pm

Why would someone clipping their fingernails bother you? WTF is that about? You can't hear it and if you aren't staring at their lame ass you can't see it either... gah...

Checking voicemail on speakerphone FTW! I actually try to find them quickly enough to pull a Terry Tate on them!

Marb

Akanae · Post by **Akanae** » October 13, 2005, 5:30 pm

Oh, you can hear the fingernail clipping. It's one of the most discusting soudns in the world.

*snip* *snip*

Voicemail on speakerphone doesn't bother me, unless they have more than 5 messages.

My biggest office pet peeve would have to be open mouth chewing. Gum is the worst because they keep it up for hours.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » October 13, 2005, 5:58 pm

It's not really limited to just checking messages via speakerphone. Basically anything that involves a speakerphone in the workplace. I love it when people have meetings at their desk with the damn speakphone set to it's highest volume level like they are more important than everyone around them.

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » October 13, 2005, 6:38 pm

Voicemail on speakerphone is the worst. There was a decently hot chick who sat next to me who always did this. Drove me up a wall. One morning her speakerphone button was superglued in the up position.

This job was filled to the brim with dysfunctional people. There was a senior manager who would go to people's cubes and yell at them at top volume. One day while I was on the road there was an email from this douchebag wanting to know who took a dump in his coffee cup.

MooZilla · Post by **MooZilla** » October 13, 2005, 7:45 pm

voicemail kills. my new voicemail message on my phone is "dont leave a message. because you know i'll never listen to it, and they just pile up anyway."

i think the worst thing that somebody can possibly do in an office enviornment is BREATHING LOUDLY. fuck that. you can breathe at a later time. not while i'm stuck in a cubicle next to you.

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