Reply to: Irritating People

[escapeUK]

Where are these places where people are allowed to play music in an office???? I have never seen that (or heard it). Is this some public sector thing?

The most irritating thing for me is women prattling on all day about what their children have done / are doing / said. Men never do this. I dont know if they just realise that no one else is interested, or just arent interested themselves.

[hyperD]

I get irritated by having to listen to my own music whilst trying to concentrate in the open plan / tele-conference office I'm currently at. Found an app called Simply Noise, and just crank up the white noise if I really want to concentrate. It's a bit weird but it does manage to block out all the other noises around me making concentration far easier.

I think you'd find Guantanamo a holiday to remember!

[Jaws]

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.

I get irritated by having to listen to my own music whilst trying to concentrate in the open plan / tele-conference office I'm currently at. Found an app called Simply Noise, and just crank up the white noise if I really want to concentrate. It's a bit weird but it does manage to block out all the other noises around me making concentration far easier.

[hyperD]

People who eat at their desks but can't close their mouths when they do. There is a bloke who sits near me who kind of slurps when he does this also. really annoying. Glad I got a set of them beats headphones!

That for me is one of the worse office cuisine faux pas ever. I mean, how fecking difficult is eat to keep your gob shut while you trough your processed Tesco swill of trans-fat potato chips and greasy chicken MacBollocks?

One guy (and yes, it's guys mostly) as soon as I heard the rustle of his brown paper nose bag, I simply had to leave the office and go outside, for fear of ramming his duck-in-pancake-roll forcibly down his windpipe and staving his greasy, bald glistening domehead in with his 24" ViewSonic monitor.

And now, I have to suffer the excruciatingly poor food manners of a bloke that must have a megaphone rammed up his nose because whenever he eats his daily "one of my five" vegetables, a large bag of Walker's crisps, it's as though I've stuck my head into the world's most hungriest bone-eating termites nest, the crunching sound is so fecking unbelievably loud.

[hyperD]

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.

They work in an aircraft cockpit, but never tried them in an office environment.

[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.

[OwlHoot]

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

both, because the irritating people are 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.

[EternalOptimist]

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

[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

[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.

[AtW]

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

Aren't you generalising here?

[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.

[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.

[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.