Annoying people at work...

[DrummerDeanna]

So I am in newsroom - so basically there this island and four of us sit around it, we each have our own space and there are large cabinets in the middle...so it's more cubicle like I guess...

Anyway - it sucks being in a room with a bunch of people while trying to work - one guy has like three different audio sources on - one with our station playing, one on his computer playing God only knows what - and he's editing sound bytes (with no head phones) PLUS he's a whistler..so he's constantly whistling and making me want to insert sharp objects into my eyes.

Seriously. I'm SO annoyed at him right now I just want to hit him lol...

he also will just start laughing uproariously and then wait for one of us to ask what's so funny ( I never do) - I find that So annoying...just say, "hey check this out" or something if you want to share it with people....but no - he laughs all obnoxiously and waits for someone to bite....which brings me to the guy in the corner - who always bites and talks all the damn time - he believes he's part of everyone's conversation and I"m ready to just strike them all lol....

just hd to vent because I'm on my last nerve right now

[amber]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

So I am in newsroom - so basically there this island and four of us sit around it, we each have our own space and there are large cabinets in the middle...so it's more cubicle like I guess...

Anyway - it sucks being in a room with a bunch of people while trying to work - one guy has like three different audio sources on - one with our station playing, one on his computer playing God only knows what - and he's editing sound bytes (with no head phones) PLUS he's a whistler..so he's constantly whistling and making me want to insert sharp objects into my eyes.

Seriously. I'm SO annoyed at him right now I just want to hit him lol...

he also will just start laughing uproariously and then wait for one of us to ask what's so funny ( I never do) - I find that So annoying...just say, "hey check this out" or something if you want to share it with people....but no - he laughs all obnoxiously and waits for someone to bite....which brings me to the guy in the corner - who always bites and talks all the damn time - he believes he's part of everyone's conversation and I"m ready to just strike them all lol....

just hd to vent because I'm on my last nerve right now

I love description of laughing guy. Cause i hate that, too. It makes me want to slap them. My mom does that a lot, actually. I'm glad you posted this, because a second ago i was so mad at my boss. He's such freakin moron, i hate when he talks to me. Sometimes i ask him random easy questions, just cause i think he already knows the answer. When he doesn't, and he tries to come up with something, he always says the stupidest, basic ****, that anyone who was not an amoeba could think of. Then he tells that to me. I'm like "I'm only asking you because i thought you already knew, not because I can't figure out how to find out if we both don't know. But thanks for the ****ing EXTENDED explanation that i should call so and so to find out. Really, never woulda thought of it." And, of course, there is still condescending TUSK guy. Every day, I contemplate quitting. Of course, I can't cause i need money, but...

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by amber

I love description of laughing guy. Cause i hate that, too. It makes me want to slap them. My mom does that a lot, actually. I'm glad you posted this, because a second ago i was so mad at my boss. He's such freakin moron, i hate when he talks to me. Sometimes i ask him random easy questions, just cause i think he already knows the answer. When he doesn't, and he tries to come up with something, he always says the stupidest, basic ****, that anyone who was not an amoeba could think of. Then he tells that to me. I'm like "I'm only asking you because i thought you already knew, not because I can't figure out how to find out if we both don't know. But thanks for the ****ing EXTENDED explanation that i should call so and so to find out. Really, never woulda thought of it." And, of course, there is still condescending TUSK guy. Every day, I contemplate quitting. Of course, I can't cause i need money, but...

Stupid Tusk guy - I forgot about him - he's still around?

Yeah - laughing guy has just turned up his radio - and now there's a guy vaccuuming outside of the newsroom (construction mess) - SO loud...

In less than an hour, however, I will be in a sound-proof studio - so I'm looking forward to that...

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

Stupid Tusk guy - I forgot about him - he's still around?

Yeah - laughing guy has just turned up his radio - and now there's a guy vaccuuming outside of the newsroom (construction mess) - SO loud...

In less than an hour, however, I will be in a sound-proof studio - so I'm looking forward to that...

This is when I say, "Oh for f's sake!". I used to work in a room with a bunch of guys and all hell broke loose a couple of times. I really hated it. Now I have a cube and everyone around me is really quiet most of the time which I love because I am easily distracted. However, my boss loves to dial her phone on speaker, ugh, it's so loud. Then we have cell phone guy who's phone rings wicked loud and he speaks even louder. You could hear him on the other side of the building. Oh don't even get me stahted....

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

This is when I say, "Oh for f's sake!". I used to work in a room with a bunch of guys and all hell broke loose a couple of times. I really hated it. Now I have a cube and everyone around me is really quiet most of the time which I love because I am easily distracted. However, my boss loves to dial her phone on speaker, ugh, it's so loud. Then we have cell phone guy who's phone rings wicked loud and he speaks even louder. You could hear him on the other side of the building. Oh don't even get me stahted....

I am also easily distracted....which makes it annoying...

Last week I did lose it....laughing guy had this library of noise on - and then the constantly talking guy's intern turned the tv volume up to hear a sports story - I was on deadline and could not work with all the noise - so the intern starts talking with someone else and I muted the tv - she was like, "Deanna, did you mute the tv?" I said, "Yes, you were talking, not watching the SPORTS story - and I'm trying to write a newscast..." then I asked laughing guy to use headphones - and no - he just turned down the volume - better than nothing I guess

Even at home I'm a tyrannt though - I NEED quiet and get really edgy and bitchy when I don't get it

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

... Then we have cell phone guy who's phone rings wicked loud and he speaks even louder. You could hear him on the other side of the building. Oh don't even get me stahted....

Here he goes again . I call him Blurt, betcha can't guess his given name.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Here he goes again . I call him Blurt, betcha can't guess his given name.

that is really annoying I don't like inconsiderate cell phone users...

laughing/whistling guy was not here today - it was nice and quiet...but constantly talking guy was still around - the only annoying thing he did today though - he and two other guys were talking baseball - the two guys left but talking guy just kept talking...as if addressing me...I was like, "yeah - I don't like baseball...." he stopped talking.

[madformac]

My boss is like a tornado... He goes around randomly causing chaos and making a **** load of mess, throwing paper around and stuff. Then I have to come and calm the place down and clean up after him

I've found the best way to work is to work around him.. Let him mince around doing whatever unimportant task he's deemed himself fit to do, and then I'll just get on with the important jobs.. It seems to work and I keep him in his job that pays twice the sum mine does .

[amber]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

that is really annoying I don't like inconsiderate cell phone users...

laughing/whistling guy was not here today - it was nice and quiet...but constantly talking guy was still around - the only annoying thing he did today though - he and two other guys were talking baseball - the two guys left but talking guy just kept talking...as if addressing me...I was like, "yeah - I don't like baseball...." he stopped talking.

Omigod, he talks when no one is there! I like to go...."Who are you talking to?" If it's something i don't care about, but i'm standing right there. It's a little more hostile and rude, so of course i do it... Then I look around scornfully...

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

that is really annoying I don't like inconsiderate cell phone users...

laughing/whistling guy was not here today - it was nice and quiet...but constantly talking guy was still around - the only annoying thing he did today though - he and two other guys were talking baseball - the two guys left but talking guy just kept talking...as if addressing me...I was like, "yeah - I don't like baseball...." he stopped talking.

LOL, that cracks me up!

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by madformac

My boss is like a tornado... He goes around randomly causing chaos and making a **** load of mess, throwing paper around and stuff. Then I have to come and calm the place down and clean up after him

I've found the best way to work is to work around him.. Let him mince around doing whatever unimportant task he's deemed himself fit to do, and then I'll just get on with the important jobs.. It seems to work and I keep him in his job that pays twice the sum mine does .

Oh the injustice... This is one of the most frustrating things about being "managed". The manager's job seems to be to take credit for your work and be paid handsomely for it, all the while not treating you 1/4 as well as you should be treated. How do people get into that racket?

[madformac]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Oh the injustice... This is one of the most frustrating things about being "managed". The manager's job seems to be to take credit for your work and be paid handsomely for it, all the while not treating you 1/4 as well as you should be treated. How do people get into that racket?

I have no idea how he's "managed" to keep his position for as long as he has.. I basically run the business day to day. I'm a manager myself but at least I try to look after the interests of my staff too, I'm not sure on his agenda really. All I know is he's better off sat in his nice chair in the office and out of the way... You know the type, they think they can show you they can do your job better than you can but end up making an ass out of themselves trying... The best bit is the clothes... He wears a suit with ingrained dandruff in the lapel and knees in his trousers that have worn through virtually.... I'm sure he sleeps in them..

[GardenStateGirlie]

I have one girl I work with who refuses to shut the hell up. She talks non stop and usually, it's about herself which drives me absolutely INSANE. And if someone else walks in, she repeats the story. And even worse, if you are talking to someone, she always finds some way to relate it to something she's gone through. Katarina...you? chap my ass

[amber]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

I have one girl I work with who refuses to shut the hell up. She talks non stop and usually, it's about herself which drives me absolutely INSANE. And if someone else walks in, she repeats the story. And even worse, if you are talking to someone, she always finds some way to relate it to something she's gone through. Katarina...you? chap my ass

that's awesome. I hate that, too.

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by amber

that's awesome. I hate that, too.

I'll be sitting here and she'll be rattling off some BS I don't really care about so I end up staring into space and totally not paying attention. Rude, perhaps but if you were stuck here with her for 9 hours, you'd want to rip your hair out too.

Marissa, still at work. Until 8.