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Along the lines of all the speaker phone issues going around... but people who dial out on speaker phone, let the thing ring until someone picks up and then pick up the reciever once someone answers.
Drives me crazy when I just finished writting up documentation (using proper formatting), and someone switches all the styles and fonts so that the index I added to the documentation no longer works.
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Paul (3/27/2009)
My biggest annoyance is people talking to themselves. Either out loud or whispering, it doesn't matter, it's just too distracting because you think they could be talking to you.
My wife does this, LOL, I used to answer, now I just put on headphones when she's "discussing" something.
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bob.willsie (3/27/2009)
Because of that experience I actually developed several interview questions to make sure I weed these type of people out early in the process.
That's a great idea. Glad you shared.
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Steve Jones - Editor (3/27/2009)
bob.willsie (3/27/2009)
Because of that experience I actually developed several interview questions to make sure I weed these type of people out early in the process.That's a great idea. Glad you shared.
Be even better if Bob shared some idea of the questions themselves so that we could all begin crafting ways to get around bringing in someone who will just annoy us to death.
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Ronn Hudzick (3/27/2009)
We live/work in a zoo. Between the person that sleeps most of the day, the one that stares at a screen and can only do one function at a time, there is a worse problem. Our boss is an I-gotist. That is the ultimate egotist. It does not matter that one guy (the sleeper) has had pneumonia 5 times, our boss had it worse. Nobody can top any of his stories, so we just listen, and once he is out of the room, we laugh. He never reads a manual and gives demonstrations of new software by winging it. Very hard to take notes when things continue to fail as you go along.
Is his name Michael Scott?
I knew a guy like that, we used to deliberately feed him stuff to see what he's say.
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I am in an open environment and my biggest complaint is the network guys who insist on making animal noises as part of their daily conversation. I mean, howler monkey, toucan, jungle animal noises. They are having fun, and I appreciate that, I don't mind some of the joking and laughter but those noises drive me batty. Otherwise I am pretty tolerant of speakerphone and conversational noise.
Regarding phones ringing, we have a unique problem in that we are in a locked room (the servers are in a separate room within our room but there are two layers of physical security there) and when someone presses the buzzer, the phones all ring. You would be amazed how long 12 people can pretend to ignore 15 simultaneously ringing telephones. Someone has to pickup and drop a phone, and go to the door and let the caller in. I must say, at least 30% of the time it is me who gives in. The thing is, I am older than the rest of these yahoos, I am the only woman, and I walk with a cane. The other thing is, as a consultant, the visitors are never here to see me. It's just that I am the first to get fed up with the ringing phones. The poor person waiting often looks a little guilty when they see me coming to the window, especially when they see the cane.
On the confessional side, I am one of the self-talkers. It doesn't matter the environment, when I am coding, I tend to murmur, especially when things aren't going well. To top it off, there are definitely inappropriate phrases that tend to jump out. Quietly, at least, but I know I've set off strings of giggles from my coworkers with my attempts to keep my language clean. ("Dag nab it you son of a biscuit!") Then I have the jumpy legs. You know, the bouncy knee thing, especially after a Monster at breakfast and a couple of Diet Dr. Peppers. This is normally a quiet thing, but on the raised tile floor, I can really set off some reverb.
Because I am an offender, I never complain about others' annoying little habits, and I do my best to keep mine to a minimum volume.
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If you don't have time to do it right the first time, where will you find time to do it again?
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- The guy 3 cubes down humming badly with his headset on.
- The lady who burns popcorn in the microwave on purpose because she likes it that way.
- The manager who doesn't have the background to evaluate who's good and who's not at their job.
Solutions: earbuds, noseplugs and a therapist
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I'll have to agree with the people who mentioned the 'story tellers' - a guy I work with tells you the same stories over and over again and just goes on and on.... Not only wastes his time but yours as well. I'd rather you just go surf the internet all day. How many times can I hear about the payroll problems you had at K-Mart in 1987?
This one is really gross, we have someone (haven't caught them yet) who blows their nose in the sink in the rest room!! I'll buy you a box of Kleenex if things are that bad. Yuck!
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Working in a multilingual environment with everyone speaking their native tongue. In our office we have Americans, German, Latinos and a smattering of Indians.
I know that they are not talking to me - but it is distracting for some reason to hear an unfamiliar tongue.
Thank God for headphones to provide background noise.
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Ed Salva (3/27/2009)
"convince them your a nut and that they had better stay away from you." -- Grasshopper
never been able to successfully accomplish this, can't seem to get past the Teddy bear phase, any suggestions?
Lots of good ways to do that:
1. Give everyone who comes to see you the hard sell to get them to buy Amway products, Girl Scout cookies, raffle tickets, etc.
2. Put some pictures on the wall showing you posing with your favorite firearms. Mention that your favorite fantasy is being up on a tower with a sniper rifle.
3. Include your favorite imaginary friend in every conversation. Get angry if they refuse to acknowledge the presence of your imaginary friend.
4. Tell everyone who drops by the same long, pointless, boring story every time you see them.
5. Insist on showing them all 500 pictures you took on your vacation, and tell them the complete story behind each one.
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