Irritating People

[SupremeSpod]

I've noticed it a couple of places I've been. The only way to deal with it is to... ...and ensure they're getting their money's worth.

Reach over and punch the irritating f*cker's lights out!

Spod - In "YMMV" mode.

[farout117]

That's all fine when you are dealing with reasonable people, not a school playground/gang mentality.

You must really be unlucky NWP2C. In all places I have worked, if people want to listen to music, they use headphones. Never met a disco mentality at work.

I am annoyed with the talking some folks do especially in an open office environment, but then I just ask for a quiet room.

[Gentile]

You must really be unlucky NWP2C. In all places I have worked, if people want to listen to music, they use headphones. Never met a disco mentality at work.

I am annoyed with the talking some folks do especially in an open office environment, but then I just ask for a quiet room.

Most of the places I've been have been like that too. In the three places I've been where it was a problem, it was one individual in each case that was being inconsiderate. Simply asking that individual to stop in the guise of making a more general request seemed to have the desired effect.

The only other similar thing I've experienced was at my last gig, where there was a guy that used to listen to headphones. I don't know what he was listening to, but every so often he'd stifle a chuckle to himself, which would infect the rest of us and make us laugh as well. I didn't mind that at all since it wasn't a constant interruption and was quite subdued - it was more of a thing that used to make everyone laugh and share a moment whenever it happened.

[AtW]

Is there anything worse than having to sit next to someone you find really irritating day after day?

Aren't you generalising here?

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

You must really be unlucky NWP2C. In all places I have worked, if people want to listen to music, they use headphones. Never met a disco mentality at work.

I am annoyed with the talking some folks do especially in an open office environment, but then I just ask for a quiet room.

I count myself really lucky actually - the fact I am a contractor makes all this stuff a lot easier to bear. If I was a permie I'd have gone insane by now.

[NickFitz]

A few years ago I worked at a place that had the local commercial radio station on in the office, piped through speakers built in to the ceiling. Heck, it was even piped into the corridors and the bogs!

There was no point complaining though: the place I was working was the radio station, and most of the office was occupied by the production team for the network evening show

[EternalOptimist]

Its an interesting thread
but is it about irritating people
or irritating people ?

[OwlHoot]

I try to live with whatever the environment's like at each place I go. However, other people inflicting their musical tastes on me whilst I'm trying to concentrate on technical work is one of the few things I can't tolerate: it just short-circuits my brain in a particular way that makes it no good for software development.

WSS, and I'm sure it short circuits their brains too!

It's hard to believe anyone with music blaring in their ears can fully concentrate on something else.

[OwlHoot]

Its an interesting thread
but is it about irritating people
or irritating people ?

both, because the irritating people are irritating people

[Gentile]

WSS, and I'm sure it short circuits their brains too!

It's hard to believe anyone with music blaring in their ears can fully concentrate on something else.

Any of you ever tried those noise-cancelling headphones/earphones things? Some people swear by them, but I find it hard to believe they actually work.