I come back from the bathroom and there is this woman . . .

[Bertha Venation]

. . . standing in my work station, leaning over the desk to read a "9 Chickweed Lane" strip on the far side of the desk.

:wtf:

I said "hi." And she kept reading. I said it again. She didn't acknowledge me until she was done reading. Then she looked up and said, "is this your desk?"

:wtf:

Do. Not. Invade. My. Space.

It's bad enough that three attorneys are on my printer, and if I don't whip what they print out of the printer instantly, they come into my cube and stand behind me and pick up their prints, sometimes standing there to look through them.

My cube is tiny. If I turn, my shoulder practically touches the printer. I have just enough room to scoot my chair back so I can get out.

Get. Out. Of. My. Space!!

Signed,

hmm.... how would you sign this?

[MissHoneychurch]

1. She likes "9 Chickweed Lane"?

:shrug:

So did she say what she wanted?

[Bertha Venation]

3. to hand off a task from her atty to mine

Rude!

:hi: Miss Honey

[MissHoneychurch]

12. It is very rude

OK, if she is reading the strip while she is waiting (even that I wouldn't dare to do) but to ignore you when you say "hi" .... no way to behave.

:hi: Bertha

[kentauros]

2. "Signed: Milton"

"I could burn the office down."

:P

[Bertha Venation]

5. Heh.

Unfortunately, here in DC, that would bring the FBI in a heartbeat.

[kentauros]

9. then "Signed: Michael Bolton"

"PC: LOAD LETTER?? What the fuck does that mean?!"

[1gobluedem]

4. I have a co-worker who reads e-mail over my shoulder

And then comments on it. No matter what it is, personal or business. In my office. Now I scramble to shut off e-mail when she comes through the door.

She will also stand at the end of the hall and watch if anyone is standing there talking to someone else. Or she will run down the hall and join in. She's always paranoid that people are talking about her.

[Bertha Venation]

7. Eeewwww! That gives me the willies.

:scared:

[redqueen]

11. Well if she does that to everyone,

they probably are talking about her, sometimes at least. That's frickin annoying!

I'd close it while she was reading, turn around and ask, "Can I help you?" in the pissiest office-appropriate voice possible.

[redqueen]

6. My fuse is entirely too short for that sort of thing today.

How did you answer her stupidass question?

I'd have said, "Why do you think I've been standing here saying hi to you? Did you think I walked by, saw someone reading a comic, and said to myself, 'Oh, this is a good time to stop and make a friend?'"

:grr:

[Bertha Venation]

8. I like that. I wish I'd thought of it.

Yeah . . . :mad:

[azmouse]

10. Sign it 'Dilbert'

[Lil Missy]

13. Uh oh. You got caught watching porn at work??

Ya tramp!

:P

[HopeHoops]

14. Up yours, bitch! (but sign someone else's name).

[hunter]

15. When I worked graveyard shift in medical labs...

... there were all sorts of weird and wonderful people, including a few who would invade personal space and who never spoke more than a sentence or two at a time.

[tigereye]

16. she should have said, "oh, sorry, I was just looking at your cartoon"

I don't really understand why people don't respect personal office space, esp. of office folks or manager, reception, what have you. Although I have to admit when I worked for an agency, we used to stand around the desk of the receptionist when we weren't busy, kind of like it was "Cheers" or something. Mostly it was because she was a lot of fun to talk to, but it wasn't very respectful, now was it.


:blush: Yikes.

[lizerdbits]

17. There's someone at my workplace

nicknamed 'Stare-n-Glare.' When she walks through the cube area she literally zig zags to look at what's on everyone's computer screen, even people who don't report to her or aren't in her work group. Multiple people have come back to their cubes to find her staring at their computers. Those people now have special Word documents they pull up when she's around that say things like "SLASHER PORN" or "ONLINE GAMBLING." :rofl: