For some reason I can never resist tapping out the opening beat of the Four Seasons' "Rag Doll" on the wall/pipes while using a public urinal.
PS I bet everyone will be doing it now.
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Couldn't you wait till the office is empty one night and tulip in his chair
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Maybe he's actually doing some work:

Or get yourself this:

I got my mate one of these for his office:
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Spread some glue on the place where he taps regularly. Next time he taps, he would be stuck for good
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Is he a drummer perchance? I worked next to one of those, and he'd be bashing everything on his desk with pens. I asked him to stop once, and he seemed surprised that I didn't like it.Originally posted by suityou01 View PostKnobhead is tapping his desk again. I have asked him (as have my peers) to stop.
"I'll try but I'm a compulsive tapper" came the response by email.
Gonna go postal at some point
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change your ringtone to BananaPhone and phone yourself constantly.
ring ring ring banana phone - YouTube
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Had a gig sat next to a very loud P.A. who spent the day talking loudly to her mother about home improvements. In order to get any work done I'd insert noise-cancelling headphones and try and concentrate. More often than not, she'd then put her own headphones on thinking the office was a bit too loud (because of her!), and would bob her head in time to the music out of the corner of my eye for an hour or two. Tough gig, that one.
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FTFY HTHOriginally posted by suityou01 View PostI was asked not to make him feel "ganged up on". It's a small office with lots of us in here. If I spoke to him about it this ran the risk of others "pitching in" and then he would have felt ganged up on.
Email leaves evidence we can use to fire you later.
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And then he might have stoppedOriginally posted by suityou01 View PostI was asked not to make him feel "ganged up on". It's a small office with lots of us in here. If I spoke to him about it this ran the risk of others "pitching in" and then he would have felt ganged up on.
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Wetter.Originally posted by suityou01 View PostI was asked not to make him feel "ganged up on". It's a small office with lots of us in here. If I spoke to him about it this ran the risk of others "pitching in" and then he would have felt ganged up on.
Email was subtler.
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I was asked not to make him feel "ganged up on". It's a small office with lots of us in here. If I spoke to him about it this ran the risk of others "pitching in" and then he would have felt ganged up on.
Email was subtler.
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