Most Annoying Office Noise

[Bertha Venation]

Mine: packing tape. *shudder* Close second: my electric stapler, which practically musters more force than my desktop can withstand.

What's yours?

[suninvited]

1. Electric pencil sharpener

who really needs to sharpen a pencil 10 times an hour, for Christ's sake ?!!!?!!

[madeline_con]

22. Ditto. Also, not just the office, I work in a school.

:banghead:

[TZ]

2. electric hole punch

Convenient but NOISY

[Critters2]

6. We don't even have one of those!

Gotta get me one!

[TZ]

8. Get earplugs....

[LynzM]

3. Throat-clearing / coughing...

Not the loud, really-sick hacking kind (I might feel bad for ya)... but the little 'tic' type, you know, the person who does it every 10 or 15 seconds, all day.

[suninvited]

4. oh, yeah

have one of those in my office, too

[MorningGlow]

28. Smoker-Junior cough is the one that gets me

Not the phglegmy cough of a hardcore smoker, but the chest-clearing "HEM!", or, rather, "HOOM!" of a casual smoker. For some reason it drives me crazy.

[Inchworm]

5. Silence

I'm weird.

:hi:

[Moondog]

7. Talk radio as "background noise".

[foxfeet]

9. The repetitive farts coming from two cubicles away.

Each and every day.

[CreekDog]

10. This thread and all it's posts are an obvious call out of me

:hide: :rofl:

[TZ]

11. !

I agree you are annoying...:rofl:

[CreekDog]

12. Yet my pleas for an office go unheeded

:rant:

[TZ]

14. are you asking nicely

or are you "barking" for one? :P

[CreekDog]

16. more like a "woof"

:hi:

[Iggo]

13. The noisier the better.

Cancels out the ringing in my ears...lol.

:headbang:

[ghostsofgiants]

15. Stupid co-workers talking about stupid shit.

[XemaSab]

25. +1

n/t

[LeftyMom]

17. I had a coworker who played that new country crap all day.

There is nothing worse than seven hours a day (I'd shut it off when she left for lunch) of hokey fake drawls, uninspired musicianship and incredibly insipid lyrics. Especially because the same horrible songs would be repeated frequently on whatever satellite radio station it was.

[carlyhippy]

31. I hate new country music, and it's like nails on the chalk board when I am stuck in the building

and having to listen to it all day.

[charlie and algernon]

18. Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!

Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!

[rcrush]

23. AAAAHHHHHHHH! Must Go to Chachis!!!

[Initech]

33. PC load letter? What the fuck does that mean?

[HopeHoops]

19. Anything anyone from accounting says.

That's the most annoying sound ever.

[leftyclimber]

20. Buzzing fluorescent tubes.

Or a bunch of people typing all at the same time.

Not sure which is worse.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. The Betty Boop voice of a woman in a nearby cube.

Her squeaky little-girl voice drives me nuts. She's a nice enough person, and I suppose she can't really help it that her voice is so high-pitched that it's probably easier for dogs to hear her than people, but still. It's really hard to listen to.

[madinmaryland]

24. Co-worker playing Howard Stern in the morning.

:wtf:

[hedgehog]

29. Once I was walking through a production area and stopped at a desk

to go over the paperwork I had in my hand. I was standing there, comparing a column of numbers or something, only vaguely aware of the DJ on the radio in the background. It was only gradually that I noticed the undiluted torrent of sewage coming out of the speaker. That was my introduction to Howard Stern.


Some places ban Howard on the grounds his drivel amounts to sexual harassment!

[Cant trust em]

26. Gotta be a fax dialing. nt

[mix]

27. a dying refrigerator

packing tape...it doesn't bother me, but i know what you mean

[carlyhippy]

30. the damned fax machine

[Initech]

32. The POS photocopier that is right next to my desk.

And of course - the thing that pisses me off is that we have a real nice copier but its a leased piece of equipment and we get charged based on the amount of copies we make, so everyone uses the one behind my desk.

[Jade Fox]

34. A man named Mark......

He cannot NOT make noise. If he isn't talking to you, he's talking to himself. If he isn't talking to himself, he's humming. If he isn't humming, he's tapping his pencil on the desk. Etc, etc.

[Mopar151]

35. Listening to customer service lie

Into the telephone, making promises my oversuscribed ass has to cover.

[Haole Girl]

36. Co-workers who smack chewing gum or eat with their mouths open.

:-(

[yellowdogintexas]

37. the person next to me and her annoying laugh, plus the fact that she laughs at

stuff that just isn't funny. Trouble is she thinks she is really funny and she just comes off as a ditz, and she never ever misses a chance to turn what ever it is that we are talking about into a dirty sex joke. Now I am no prude at all but it just isn't appropriate in an office setting even if the office is mostly women, it is more like how you might be with a bunch of women drinking margaritas.

there is another woman that talks way too loud when she is on the phone with customers, or talking with our team lead about a problem claim or something and she just has a very annoying braying voice

In my old age I am finding voices more and more annoying.

This is why I spend most of the day with my earbuds deep in my head, listening to classical music

[Sheltiemama]

38. I hate both those sounds.

But co-workers whistling probably is No. 1.