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.
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