Loud talkers in the workplace

robotboy · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:15 pm

my place before this was a smaller place, and was a bit more familial. constantly the ladies who just had kids would go to the bathroom for like hour block and would post a "PUMPING" note on the outside of the door. now, i know that you gotta do what you gotta do, but i just couldnt get the picture of a woman draining her milk engorged flappers by a little mechanical pump out of my head

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:34 pm

Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:

I used to sit across the hall from a lady with 1) lots of personal problems, 2) lots of freetime, and 3) that post-menopausal baritone that cuts through steel. For 3 years, I wore giant headphones at my desk, and didn't go close her door because she was also the mail room... it had to stay open. She got let go along with a couple hundred other folks a month back, and she came around to say goodbye to everyone and was like "so, I guess you'll really miss hearing my yell into my phone all the time, HUH" like all sarcastic. What do you say to that?

Don't let the door hit you?

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:42 pm

Dalen Wrote:

Rick Derris Wrote:

andyfest Wrote:

timmyjoe42 Wrote:

the cell phone pacers are my problem.
I'f I'm on my cell, I walk away from people, not towards and around people.

I really can't relate to wanting to talk on my phone in the presence of other people. I can't even stand to talk on the phone with my wife in the same room, let alone a bunch of strangers.

Agreed. People with no regards for their surroundings. Makes me want to punch them in the face.

Also, loud, obnoxious ringtones.

i've been trying to take the train in to work because, well, i can now. the above 2 reasons

are why i still choose to drive on occasion.

Man, I loved to take the train when I worked in DC - I think I read 25 books that spring.

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

I'm a pretty loud talker but everything I'm talking about is confidential so I just shut my office door. i used to work in a cubicle, though, and there were some super loud talkers around me and it drove me nuts. although not as loud as the woman who used to almost vomit up a lung when she went into her hourly coughing fits.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:02 pm

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Man, I loved to take the train when I worked in DC - I think I read 25 books that spring.

Really one of the better selling points to public transportation. Especially for commutes of 20 minutes or more.

Dalen · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:22 pm

Rick Derris Wrote:

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Man, I loved to take the train when I worked in DC - I think I read 25 books that spring.

Really one of the better selling points to public transportation. Especially for commutes of 20 minutes or more.

indeed, but i usually read with earbuds in to block out at least a little noise.

toots · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:23 pm

i wear headphones at all times while working, yet they are only piping music about 60% of the time for that reason

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:41 pm

Dalen Wrote:

Rick Derris Wrote:

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Man, I loved to take the train when I worked in DC - I think I read 25 books that spring.

Really one of the better selling points to public transportation. Especially for commutes of 20 minutes or more.

indeed, but i usually read with earbuds in to block out at least a little noise.

Hard to believe it was 10 years ago, and pre iPod/iPad/iPhone etc. I used to pick out 3-4 albums a day and just play them all the way through. It's what imprinted Doves Lost Souls and The Old 97s on my psyche.

Not an option anymore, but I don't know what I would do in a full on car-commuter city like atl (aside from go Falling Down like a week in).

Of course, I did just spend 4 days inn NYC and never enter the subway

Top Deck · **Joined:** Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:57 pm **Posts:** 53

Just today, had a woman conducting a conference call on speaker phone. No office, she sits in an open area desk in the highest traffic zone near the printers.

Diggity Dawg · **Posted:** Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:52 pm

Where I work, about 80% of the people talk at least twice as loud as they should. It's fucking maddening.

Thank Gawd for podcasts.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

I can hear a guy chewing gum that's about four desks away, sometimes I can still hear it with my headphones on. Not surprisingly he is a very loud talker.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

I'm actually pretty shocked that Kyle didn't start this thread.

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:37 pm

I have a loud voice, they put me far away from everyone else.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:22 pm

Vic Da Baron LooGAR Wrote:

Not an option anymore, but I don't know what I would do in a full on car-commuter city like atl (aside from go Falling Down like a week in).

I figured I would have lost it by now when I started the new thing, but I've gone the opposite way and even the most arduous commutes don't bug me in the least. Podcasts help.

As for the loud talking, I'm the loud talker. Sorry guys.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

the loud saleswoman has been on conference calls all day. earlier i heard 3 people simultaneously shush her from a radius of about 20 feet.

FT · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 7:13 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

As for the loud talking, I'm the loud talker. Sorry guys.

me too

obner shock level = 0%

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:29 pm

loud talkers are made 33% less annoying if they're gregarious and you actually enjoy when they're working someone on the phone. Newsrooms are the best for that; lots of characters. My first internship had a few of those and I learned a ton just soaking up the ambient repartee certain reporters had with sources and interview subjects. In those cases it was, "Shit man, talk louder."

Not a lot of characters in my immediate vicinity now. I could go for some proper badge-carrying loud talkers every once in a while.

Leon · **Posted:** Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:12 am

The people in my office are loud, and since I work in Korea they all speak Korean. Sometimes I seem them talking and laughing and occasionally looking at me or hear my name in there but have no idea what they are saying.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

this woman has been infuriating everybody today. her first day back in the new year and she's been on at least 4 conference calls today. they all start with her getting in early and asking every new arrival about their holidays and then dropping some note about "mine weren't good because i'm a badger."

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:41 pm

figuratively?

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:50 pm

Z, are you in finance? Who the hell needs to be on that many conference calls in a week, never mind one day?

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

Thee Incident Wrote:

Z, are you in finance? Who the hell needs to be on that many conference calls in a week, never mind one day?

i am not.

she is in some sales department that's in a different office. but she supposedly requested a move to our building because it's closer to her home. (i heard that story about a dozen times in her first week.) i have no idea how her location was decided, but even one of our VPs tried to relocate her and was denied, so she must have some dirt on someone.

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:42 am

I FUCKING TYPE LOUD!!!!

mutty · **Posted:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:31 am

what the hell is a badger

Cap'n Squirrgle · **Posted:** Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:20 am

A fan of the university of wisconsin. And after the rose bowl, a depressed one.

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