Wednesday, November 13th, 2002 02:30 pm
People who talk very loudly in an open work area. I really don't need to hear every single word of this guy's conversation, and neither do any of the other fifteen people nearby. Is he really unaware that my job requires concentration, focus, and thought? Or has he completely forgotten that there are other people around him at all?

People who walk around WHISTLING, loudly, in an open work area. When I was growing up, my parents told me whistling is sometimes considered rude just because the noise of it can be so annoying. Every time my work or a conversation I'm having has to compete with the piercing noise somebody is making, I remember what my folks told me, and I think thank goodness I don't go around doing that all the time.

People who use the speakerphone to listen to voice mail. I have a plan for this guy... but it might not work, because maybe he's just going deaf.

People who chew out their employees very publicly, by doing it loudly in an open work area. This may be just the same type of cluelessness that leads people to shout into their cellphones, but dressing somebody down where others can hear it is a big deal with a lot of usually-unintended side effects.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2002 03:29 pm (UTC)
Bad management has always offended me. People should not be paid to have bad manners.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2002 03:39 pm (UTC)
I'm with ya. Some days I want to go into management just because EVEN I would know better than to do whatever it was I just witnessed. (Then I wise up and realize that unless I got a good bit of mentoring, I'd do poorly in other ways, so I'll wait for the right opportunity.)
Wednesday, November 13th, 2002 05:26 pm (UTC)
Awooo, I HATE people who listen to their voicemail on speakerphone!
Thursday, November 14th, 2002 11:37 am (UTC)
I'm thinking of a breathy "thank you so much for last night" voice mail message.
Thursday, November 14th, 2002 12:05 pm (UTC)
Might work. If the person is enough of a jerk, zie'll just be pleased by it. How about "Pay us what you owe"?
Thursday, November 14th, 2002 12:42 pm (UTC)
*snicker* there's always both. "Thank you so much for last night, now pay up."