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Cock faced tossers shouting into their phones

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    #11
    Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
    I was on a site a while back where there were 4 or so people in a shared office and a fifth on the normal phone. A permie, he was blustering self importance as he was training someone on a webex.

    Loud was not the word. He was booming.

    A couple in the same room started to talk an this distracted the guy, who turned angrily and said 'Excuse me can you keep it down you can see I'm on the phone!' he then turned back to the speaker and said 'sorry some idiots in the background' and carried on booming. The guy I was talking too quietly in the corner raised his eyebrows. Nobody in the room could work!!!!

    Frankly I would have told the guy to go and get a ******* room but all of his colleagues were scared of him.
    Similarly I got a desk next to a South African Bint at one gig who spent all day gossiping very loudly to her pals on the phone. One day a quiet and mild-mannered techy bod and colleague of mine who clientco had seen fit to seat in another part of the building came to see me - we were having a quiet discussion when she pipes up "excuse me - are you two having a meeting?" - and asked us to do it elsewhere.

    For me this is the downside to contracting - having to put up with twats at clientco in a way I wouldn't if they were real colleagues. I console myself with the money and the fact that I won't be here for ever, but it really narks me at times.

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      #12
      Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
      I never talk on a mobile in front of other people. I loath the things.
      Wot? People?
      My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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        #13
        I feel your pain

        I combat this by listening to music on my ipod - not really loud, just loud enough to drown out the racket going on around me
        I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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          #14
          Originally posted by Pogle View Post
          I feel your pain

          I combat this by listening to music on my ipod - not really loud, just loud enough to drown out the racket going on around me
          That works up to a point but I keep getting interrupted (not least by the the lost tossers who have set off to meet some git without finding out where they sit or look like and some git who can't work a phone after specsavers) and give up in the end.

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            #15
            I hate phones. I keep mine on silent all the time and you're lucky if I see it flashing and pick up. I always get on the quiet carriage on trains, and yes I am one of those sad people who tell fellow quiet zone passengers to turn their phones off when they ring.

            This drives the missus mad by the way but I found that the phone made me jump like Pavlov's dog every time it rang and I wasn't prepared to live my life like that.
            ...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...

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              #16
              Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
              Clientco has seen fit to place my desk right next to a door ...
              I had a variation on that - a couple of us had desks by a security door in a restricted area. There was an internal phone and directory of everyone in the room just outside the door, yet 99% of visitors would knock on the door and try to persuade us to open it.

              We got quite bloody minded about ignoring them.
              Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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                #17
                The only slight compensaton is the amount of flange that passes my desk

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                  #18
                  I...

                  Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post
                  I never talk on a mobile in front of other people. I loath the things. I always wonder off somewhere quieter.
                  Loath other people, too. Love mobiles ...

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by Lockhouse View Post
                    I hate phones. I keep mine on silent all the time and you're lucky if I see it flashing and pick up. I always get on the quiet carriage on trains, and yes I am one of those sad people who tell fellow quiet zone passengers to turn their phones off when they ring.

                    This drives the missus mad by the way but I found that the phone made me jump like Pavlov's dog every time it rang and I wasn't prepared to live my life like that.


                    I'm the same. Phone's always on silent and I HATE it when someone has the audacity to call me.
                    Practically perfect in every way....there's a time and (more importantly) a place for malarkey.
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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Peoplesoft bloke View Post
                      I dunno as I haven't discussed it on here, but I know some other posters are working in the same building (or at least the same town)

                      Isn't Spod Churchy? In which case this berk wasn't tall enough.
                      Yep, I'm a tall berk who doesn't like talking on the phone.

                      Oh and d000hg, go **** yourself.
                      Last edited by SupremeSpod; 5 November 2010, 11:29.

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