Open Offices are too loud.

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[dodgy]

We have a guy in our office that I call 'thumper' because of his keyboard habits. It's really annoying, and so are people who shout into phones!

Difficult subject to tackle, I reckon your boss was right to tackle it, takes a bit of bottle but worth it

Fortunately I work at home 4 days out of 5 these days!

 

[yenrod]

YOUR TOO LOUD

 

[papercorn2000]

YOU'RE TOO LOUD

Ahem.

 

[Mr Pig]

You could just tell her to f*** off?

Other people, don't you just hate them? ;0)

 

[beancounter]

I have an office, and I also have a desk with my team in the open plan office.

Although the open plan office IS noisy, I prefer to sit with my team 95% of the time, unless I'm doing something confidential.

bc

 

[punkypossum]

She wouldn't like it on my section, we are permanently shouting as most of the people we deal with are almost deaf!

 

[Night Train]

"Don't take this in the wrong way" she smiled nervously. "Can you be less loud, please? You're very loud on the phone. And you bang the keyboards really hard. I have a lot on at the moment and need to concentrate. I have tried to hint over the last few weeks but you haven't picked them up. I've probably been too subtle, with you being a bloke."

Contact HR over her sexist comments and then carry on typing like a man and speaking with a man's voice on the phone.

Seriously though I'd have an informal word wth her about the sexist comment.

 

[dodgy]

Not sexist at all, it's common knowledge that blokes don't pick up on subtlety.

 

[Sittingduck]

Contact HR over her sexist comments and then carry on typing like a man and speaking with a man's voice on the phone.

Seriously though I'd have an informal word wth her about the sexist comment.

OTT, I think. No harm done ans she was probably trying to inject a touch of humour to help the awkward situation?

 

[TheDoctor]

Not sexist at all, it's common knowledge that blokes don't pick up on subtlety.

Like it's common knowledge that women can't drive / read maps / exist without 15 000 pairs of shoes?

 

[ChrisKH]

I have an office, and I also have a desk with my team in the open plan office.

Although the open plan office IS noisy, I prefer to sit with my team 95% of the time, unless I'm doing something confidential.

bc

Sod that, I'm not sitting with my team. They talk absolute drivel and I would never get any work done. I combat this non-teamplayer quality by having an open door policy. You have to open my door to speak to me.

Seriously, I find it better to keep some distance between me and the team otherwise I might end up sleeping with them.

 

[dodgy]

Like it's common knowledge that women can't drive / read maps / exist without 15 000 pairs of shoes?

That's right!

 

[tyred]

There used to be a girl in my company who spoke so loud on the phone that I could here her when I was upstairs in my workshop. With the radio on. The others who actually shared the office with her were forever complaining about her.

 

[ChrisKH]

Like it's common knowledge that women can't drive / read maps / exist without 15 000 pairs of shoes?

I do hate these sexist sweeping generalisations. My wife's actually a very good driver.............