“Hiiii! I am so awesome. I’ve totally been seeing this new guy and he has the most adorable 2 yr old girl. I know, so cute right?”
No! It’s not cute, Cubicle Phone Screamer. It’s annoying and distracting and it drives us to spend our days daydreaming about sneaking into your office and hanging up on your mom over and over again.
What the blood-clot, lady? Can’t you see that your cubicle has no walls and everyone in the office can hear you and they all want the phone cord to magically wrap around your neck and put an end to this madness? Well it’s true. And if you don’t tone it down a notch, we’re gonna exercise our human resources, and they’re gonna leave a mark.
Loud people suck. I reside in between the whistler who can’t whistle in tune and the woman who things she has to yell to be heard, despite the fact that she has the mic from her headset jammed right in front of her smiley, greasy face.
What about the I have to talk even LOUDER because I am using the speaker phone. A boss-worker of mine fails to realize that their is an amplifier inside the phone and most newer phones have a volume control on the other end that the listener could turn up, no reason for you to SCREAM! Your just making a bigger ass out of yourself!
This chick at work constantly does this and it pisses me off!! I’m not even on the same side of the office as her (I’m in the middle) and she is always yelling at her BF, kid, or whoever else and it is annoying as hell!!!!!!!
I sit next to this girl for sure. Everytime her phone rings she has to yell for the person to hear on the end. It’s like talk slower to a deaf person. Doesnt work.
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I once worked with a woman who evidently called home for just two reasons – to yell at her kids (self-explanatory) and to wake up her husband (not). Apparently he worked nights, they didn’t own an alarm clock or it was ineffective, and the actual telephone ringing didn’t do the trick.
Luckily (for them, not for her co-workers), their answering machine was the call-screening kind, in which the caller’s voice can be heard as he or she leaves a message. So every couple of days, the entire office heard “Michael! MICHAEL! Get up, Michael! Wake UP!” Gah.
Sorry about that kids, I’ll try to be more sensitive about my volume levels.
I’ve lost about 80% of my hearing in my right ear and about 30% in my left ear due to ear infections that were left untreated when I was a child and that leads to my talking loudly, I just don’t realize I’m doing it.
Can you ever forgive me?
My room mate is this person PLUS the last four, with exception to express checkout guy- though he probably would take advantage of this if he didn’t eat all our food instead of buying his own.
Good suggestion from Debbie…you should definitely do Miss Sings the Same Freaking Line of a Song Over and Over and Over. I met her at the library in college while trying to write a paper and have seldom been so inclined to violence.
OK, I agree with the Cubicle Screamer, but this girl in the cubicle in front of mine does the opposite, which is nearly as bad.
When she’s on the phone with a customer, she speaks at a normal volume. I hear a word here and there, but it’s ok.
When she’s on a personal call, she drops her volume to the point where you can just_barely_ hear it, but not make out a single word. Then, because she’s on a personal call and doesn’t want to advertise her business, it’s a long string of just-on-the-edge-of-hearing “uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh” over and over and over. For 20 minutes at a time.
I’d rather she shouted, to be honest.
I can completely relate to this post. I used to sit in a cubicle between 2 people who
- liked to talk to each other by screaming things back and forth
- liked to use the speaker phone whenever possible (even when they were talking to someone just a few cubes away, so I get to hear the entire conversation, not just their side of it)
And I do recall trying to use my telekinesis on many occasions to wrap the phone cord around their necks : / That never worked so I just used my hands.
I’m new to your blog, but have to wonder if you’ve posted about her sisters, Miss Heats Up and Eats Collard Greens for Breakfast and Miss Sings the Same Freaking Line of a Song Over and Over and Over.
ARGGHHHHHHH