My new coworker/cube neighbor's voice is so loud and intrusive.

[progmom]

I find that I am completely unable to complete a thought when he is talking. :cry:

[Misunderestimator]

1. Oooh... I know the kind...

The BEST part of telecommuting...

[progmom]

6. yes - i am incredibly lucky that i get to telecommute 16 hours a week

or i might do this:

or this:

[Misunderestimator]

12. Or this?

or this...




or this...




or maybe this...

[progmom]

20. or

this


or this


or this




(those frappydoo smileys never show up for me - i always see a red x initially)

[Misunderestimator]

22. How odd... you must have a defective computer.

:)

[progmom]

24. everytime you do that i have to copy and past the properties into another

window.

[Misunderestimator]

26. Oh no! I'm so sorry, sweetie...

[progmom]

27. your sympathy touches me

[Misunderestimator]

28. But... but...

:cry:

[progmom]

31. crocodile tears

[Misunderestimator]

32. Hmmpf

[progmom]

33. meh...

[Misunderestimator]

34. Hahaha....

That's cute.

[Darth_Kitten]

30. I cannot stand loud and yakky people

I feel for ya. :)

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Throw a wad of paper at him ....

with the words "Welcome, now shut the FUCK UP" written on it.

[Misunderestimator]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHA.... HAHAHAH.... LOL... LMAO

I LOVE that idea! :bounce: :bounce:

[sundog]

5. i agree. she should throw something.

[progmom]

9. now that would be fun

i would enjoy that immensely.


him:

[Not_Giving_Up]

3. He may not be aware that he is so loud

My Aspie kid has no idea that he gets louder and louder the longer he talks. A lot of times he starts out loud, but even when he's trying to be quiet, he gets loud anyway sometimes. I have to remind him not to talk so loud.

Is there a way that you can ask the guy to lower his volume? If not, get a radio for your desk. You won't have to have it loud, but it will run interference and allow you to work.

[progmom]

11. he's just one of those

very loud manly men. :shrug:

[Not_Giving_Up]

15. Maybe he's hard of hearing??

My grandfather was always a loud talker, until he got hearing aids. He used to tell us "Look at me, I can't hear you!" He read lips without realizing it.

[progmom]

17. you are so sweet

no. he's loud and overbearing.

[Not_Giving_Up]

23. OK, just want to make sure that there'snot a good reason

Every time he breaks your chain of thought, throw something hard over at him.

How is your head?????

[progmom]

25. getting better

though i felt like i was going to pass out today. another cube neighbor offered to drive me home - all the color had drained out of my face. but i'm doing much better now.

[WeRQ4U]

7. Start singing "You're so fucking loud. You're so fucking loud" ..........

In a sing-songy voice.

[progmom]

14. i how i want to do that

[XemaSab]

8. Wait, did my horrible former co-worker

start there?

:shrug:

[Gothic Sponge]

10. I say kill him.

Just get a gun and kill him.

:crazy:

[progmom]

16. you always have the rational solution

:pals:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

13. Been there, seen it, heard it...my sympathies go out to you.

Although nothing topped the time my boss (probably in her early 60s, looked like a less-attractive twin sister of "Miss Jane Hathaway" from "The Beverly Hillbillies") showed up late and disheveled one morning with her new boyfriend in tow. If you can imagine comedian Lewis Black in his early sixties, oily hair, completely gone to hell, that was the boyfriend.

She didn't have an office. She had a cubicle in a big open area a few feet from mine.

He hung out a few minutes while she attempted to pull herself together.

She asked "Have you decided what you'll be doing tonight?"

He replied "Hopefully, I'll be gettin' it on with YOU, darlin'..."

She got fired two months into the job for lying about her qualifications on her resume. That probably left her with a lot of free time for "gettin' it on."

:evilgrin:

[progmom]

18. wow

:rofl:

[GOPisEvil]

19. I think his sister works in my office.

:argh:

[ghostsofgiants]

21. My brother is like that

It's torture.

[Darth_Kitten]

29. I know the feeling....

We have this summer student right now, he annoys me by saying the same thing over and over and over

"what's that?" I swear, he's a yakker, and everytime he can't hear somebody, it's "what's that?"....."what's that?"...

I swear, he says this hundreds of times a day. :eyes: drives me nuts.....