Any of you work in an office?

[bdcjacko]

I'm trying to avoid Dilbert life, really. It's nothing personal. Just that half of the things in that comic have some basis in reality.

Outside of the talking cat, dog and dinosaur and rat. They are all 100% real.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Off topic, but is your avatar from an old Gamecube game called P.N.03? Played the demo ages ago at a store, never got around to picking it up.

Sure is! I have a poster of it over my desk, too.

 

[Dragonborne88]

See there are two types of people those that can zone out and focus only on what they are doing and people that are observant so nothing gets past them. I'm on the observant side. I have a great memory, I catch things lots of people walk right past, and this skill has come to help me many times over. The draw back is that I get annoyed with to much chatter.

Now, don't get me wrong I see the value in being able to tune people out and just get work done. But as you said it is really annoying to be talking to someone, directly too them, and they don't hear a word because you haven't done a song and dance to get their attention. There was a lady here that we had to do that with.

Well, I'm observant too if I really want to be. But, as you said, I get annoyed by people doing little things, so I just phase it out. It's not hard to get my attention, just calling my name generally works, but other then that, I find it way more beneficial to just blank out noises otherwise not related to what I'm doing.

Because of the environment I'm in, especially, there are a LOT of annoying sounds that go on. My friend across from me has asked me if I heard a few things that were either driving him nuts, or that people were saying, and finds it amazing that I can respond honestly that I didn't hear a word of it because I didn't care.

Some of the people I know in the office bring sound muffling headphones to work to play music on. Tried that?

 

[Bebus]

I sit next to the photocopier/printer. All day, the whirring and buzzing and printing...

I also had a bit of a shock moment today when I realised how pathetic my life had become that I found some of the 'office humour' actually funny.

 

[FalloutJack]

I'm trying to avoid Dilbert life, really. It's nothing personal. Just that half of the things in that comic have some basis in reality.

Outside of the talking cat, dog and dinosaur and rat. They are all 100% real.

The human characters reflect real people. The Pointy-Haired Boss is out there.

 

[bdcjacko]

Now maybe this is a small office problem, I don't know. But you ever get tired of hearing chatter from the hall way. You can't make out the conversation, you aren't even trying to. You can just hear constant chatter coming from down the hall or the next office over. So annoying.

Now maybe it is just me, but it is 5 times more annoying when it is just women talking, it literally sounds like chickens clucking to me. I don't really understand how 2 women can be bother talking at once to each other.

Discuss

Offices have doors on them for a reason, if you dont like the chatter then use it. Other then that learn to zone out the noises its not that hard.

I work in a cubical, cubicles don't have doors.

 

[bdcjacko]

I work in a cubical, cubicles don't have doors.

Then you need to word your posts better because you are probably not in a small office and most likely are not hearing chatter from down the hall or the next office but rather from the same room or next cubicle.

I work in an office with 4 other people, that is a small office. And the chatter is down the hall. I have the only cubical in the office. Perhaps you shouldn't split hairs.

 

[funguy2121]

OP, I wouldn't limit the banter/gossip/mindless drivel to women exclusively, although most of the culprits do seem to be women. There are plenty of men who piss me off in this regard. And yes, unfortunately, a great deal of this problem is simply the office setting. There are ways to go about solving the problem, though they may all prove futile. You probably already know this - you can talk to HR or to the appropriate supervisor, or you can talk to the clucking chickens yourself. And that's the point. You know. You know the setting, so it's up to you. Sucks, but it could certainly be worse. Hell, I've practically had Michael Scott for a boss, without all the "fun." I've had managers who were breaking the law and expecting me to look the other way, I've worked at a hotel where pot was delivered via fedex and my most senior boss was telling me to literally handle it, and I've been sexually harassed by an exceptionally hideous supervisor (and by the way, plunging cleavage shirts are not appropriate for the workplace, whether you weigh 80 pounds or 300).

Edit: WORSE, it could certainly be worse. Sorry. My tongue is an asshole

 

[bdcjacko]

OP, I wouldn't limit the banter/gossip/mindless drivel to women exclusively, although most of the culprits do seem to be women. There are plenty of men who piss me off in this regard. And yes, unfortunately, a great deal of this problem is simply the office setting. There are ways to go about solving the problem, though they may all prove futile. You probably already know this - you can talk to HR or to the appropriate supervisor, or you can talk to the clucking chickens yourself. And that's the point. You know. You know the setting, so it's up to you. Sucks, but it could certainly be worse. Hell, I've practically had Michael Scott for a boss, without all the "fun." I've had managers who were breaking the law and expecting me to look the other way, I've worked at a hotel where pot was delivered via fedex and my most senior boss was telling me to literally handle it, and I've been sexually harassed by an exceptionally hideous supervisor (and by the way, plunging cleavage shirts are not appropriate for the workplace, whether you weigh 80 pounds or 300).

Edit: WORSE, it could certainly be worse. Sorry. My tongue is an asshole

Small office of 5 people where the main chatterbox is the boss/owner. It isn't changing any time soon. My options are going deaf, finding a new job or somehow learning to drowned things out (which is going to be hard considering I have the ADHD). So my best option is going deaf.

 

[SilentCom]

I've never wanted to work in an office before because I don't really want to be stuck in a cubicle all day doing boring stuff. Now I definitely don't want to work in an office knowing that I have to content with constant annoying chatter.

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

As I type this I am sitting in a cubicle with three other people. Off in the distant I can hear what I assume is some form of casual meeting going on in an office not too far away. Aside from that the conversations are generally kept to the kitchen/break room and there are usually an equal amount of men and women in there.

 

[Agayek]

I do work in an office, but I have two things that save me from your situation.

First, there's all of 8 people working in my office and most of us are rather busy.

Second, I can work from home whenever I feel like it.

Thus, I have no issues with this particular problem.

 

[boag]

I work inside of a server site, all I hear all day long is the humming of servers and the air conditining.

The most anoying thing is when i forget to bring my jacket.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Nope. I'm more of a hands on guy.

However, oddly enough, I find Dilbert hilarious

 

[Braedan]

I do unfortunately, and I have no problems with the women. It's the fucking salesmen who think everything they say is the most cleaver gift to humans. Because of this they don't shut up... god damn salesmen...

 

[ZtH]

I do work in an office. I actually prefer the chatter. The white noise of the 30ish chatterboxes are far better than the silent as the grave sections down stairs.