The "Loud Talker"

[splitterpfj]

Yahoo has an article up right now that talks about the most annoying office habits. Number one in their survey turned out to be the "Loud Talker." Annoying cell phone ring tones are on the list, as are loud speaker phones and smelly lunches.

 

Any bad experiences out there?

 

finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/103249/How-Loud-is-too-Loud

[rwa12]

My biggest pet peeve of working in a large environment were people who burned microwave popcorn. The smell would make me sick all afternoon.

[aracko]

The Crapper Talker. I am in the john doing my business and this guy from Russia sits down in the stall next to me and must recognise me from my shoes cause he is talking and talking. His words are coming out at the same time as his BM. I had habaneros with my dinner and I am sweating and in some real physical pain.

 

As nice as the guy might be, I absolutly refuse to talk to him now.

[Brian the Automator]

Gotta go with the "smell testers".

[bork]

I was thinking about starting a thread like this about the woman who moved into the cube next to me a few months ago. That list seems to be describing her.

 

She's an extremely loud talker and she's always on the phone (Mostly business calls, but quite a bit of personal convervation during those calls. The loud talking is bad enough, but she's constantly crunching on food while talking on the phone. How obnoxious! She has a microwave in her cube to make smelly food at lunch. Has an annoying cell phone ring and she often leaves it on her desk when she walks away, so it rings forever. Also keeps messing with the lighting levels for the whole area.

 

And other favorite: calling someone on the phone who's two cubes away, so you get that nice echo.

 

The people where she used to sit always comment how nice and quiet their area is now. And I've talked with another person near me who says she works from home more now because of this woman. I've been doing the same.

 

Don't get me wrong, she's a nice person, just extremely annoying.

[burniebrewer]

The person who pours on the perfume/cologne and the smell overwhelms you all day. Even worse if it's "Grandma" perfume.

[davebobn]

The 25 year old girl at work who complains about how living with her parents is the most annoying thing in the world...I have to bite my tongue everyday because I just want to say that I'm sure they're probably quite annoyed with that situation as well.

[jason21nl]

the loud talker guy does suck, but for me its the "close talker" guy. I can't stand it when someone feels the need to pretty much stand on me to talk. I can take a step back but they always follow and take a step in. You can feel their breath on you, and smell their breath, or their BO its just horrible.

[burniebrewer]

Loud talkers, close talkers, B.O.........

 

This is becoming a Seinfeld thread!

[bork]

Burnt pop corn and some kind of tuna dish in the microwave today. Gotta love it.

[bball123h2]

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the loud talker guy does suck, but for me its the "close talker" guy. I can't stand it when someone feels the need to pretty much stand on me to talk. I can take a step back but they always follow and take a step in. You can feel their breath on you, and smell their breath, or their BO its just horrible.

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I believe the comedian answer to this problem (I forget who) states:

1. Tilt your head slightly.

2. Stare directly into their eyes.

3. Pucker your lips slightly.

 

99% of the time, it works every time.

[GAME05]

boy, i'm always complaining about my workplace and i get none of this.

 

it's actually just the opposite experience. the phone never rings, very few emails and my office goes months at a time without saying a single word to one another. it was heaven for a month, but now i'm dying for any human interaction whatsoever.

 

so i guess my complaint/most annoying thing are the coworkers who make zero effort to communicate with each other.

[SeriesFinale]

I don't make microwave popcorn so I swear I'm not covering my own tracks here but I've always found the smell of burnt popcorn somewhat pleasant, it always surprises me how worked up people get about that.

 

I've got pretty thick skin though and have an office and a door I can close so I'm pretty lucky.

[FVBrewerFan]

Too long to condense into one name, but I'll try.

 

"Know it all, but a year too late guy"

 

You know him. The guy who must tell you how great a movie is 10 months after it's been out. He'll go on at length about how cool an Ipod is. Just last week I got a "check this out" and he played some stupid ring tone on his cell phone. "You can add any song you want" he added.

 

I lost it. I explained that custom rign tones have been around for 10 years now, and now mine just rings.

[GAME05]

maybe it's just me, but the 1-year late guy sounds inadvertently hilarious to me. i can picture myself pretending to be wowed by this "new" technology and asking him questions as if I'd been living in a cave. of course you'd have to throw in Mr. Burns-type phrases like auto-gyro, moving-picture-show and mechanical buggy.

 

granted, things get old, fast.

[brewerjamie15]

I work with a guy who always has to touch ya on the shoulder or back when he's talking to you. I don't like it.

[backup catchers]

i can picture myself pretending to be wowed by this "new" technology and asking him questions as if I'd been living in a cave.

 

somewhere the Geiko cave man is ranting about this website that thinks cave dwellers are backward.

 

The touching guy is a good one. Anyone who invades personal space should be rounded up and forced to sit between two large sweaty people on a plane.

[1992casey]

I read somewhere that Americans are comfortable with sitting or standing 18 inches from another person. The Japanese need three feet.

 

I'll combine a couple of complaints: loud talking on cell phones.

 

I've got to say that the worst I've ever seen (heard), though, is a group of people who set a speakerphone in the middle of the table in a restaurant. They may as well have brought a boom box.

 

Obnoxious ringtones rank right up there. I admit that my ringtone (Dueling Bangos) is probably obnoxious, too, but at least it starts out quietly. And I tend not to have the ringer turned on in stores or other public places?or I shut it off when it starts to ring and call back later.

[RightFieldCoder]

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99% of the time, it works every time.

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Yeah, but you've gotta hate the other 1% of the time.

 

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I work with a guy who always has to touch ya on the shoulder or back when he's talking to you. I don't like it.

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Jamie, maybe you should just tell Mike Maddox that you're not pitching so he can stop.

 

My boss doesn't like the smell of unburnt popcorn. Not to say he likes burnt popcorn, but he gets mad if anyone in the office "fills the room" with popcorn smell.

[jaybird2001wi]

When I had my internship at a newspaper, we had all had to share the fridge in our company lounge and what annoys me are the kind of people that bring a huge lunchbox worth of food, leaving little space for me to put my stuff in the fridge because it takes up the whole fridge.

I also hate when people leave stuff in the fridge for like 3 weeks and don't even touch it. Every time I opened the fridge, I saw the same annoying TV dinner for 3 weeks until the custodians got tired of it and ordered everyone to take their stuff home for a weekend.

I also hate when people stuff their faces as the are typing on their computer, shoving their fingers in their mouth and then continuing to type on the keyboard. It made me wonder if the specific two ever contracted any sicknesses from that.

One other concern I have is when I am in the bathroom, one of my bosses (who shall remain nameless) used the bathroom urinal right next to me and then didn't even wash his hands as he left. It sickened me because he started shaking people's hands in the lobby.

[Hammer]

I can one-up all of these. The "snorting snot guy". I work with a guy that refuses to blow his nose. Instead, he snorts his snot up into his sinuses. I can't stand that wet, bubbly sound. I have actually asked him to blow his nose (in a kind way) but he says that nothing ever comes out so why bother...

To me, there isn't another sound in the world that will drive me nuts!!

[1992casey]

jaybird? the two biggest germ collectors: shopping cart handles and computer mice. The keyboard must be right up there.

 

Hammer? I can top that. On a summer job, I worked with a guy who 'snorted out' instead of 'snorting in'. He'd put a finger on one nostril, and blow the snot on the grass. Then he'd wash, rinse, repeat with the other one.

[Jimbo]

I don't have it as bad as you guys since my area is pretty quiet. But last fall we did hire a nice enough guy, but however feels the need to wear his keys on his belt loop. He jingles each time he gets up and walks out of the office. I hear him coming 50 feet down the hall.

[UndraftedFA]

How about the people that always sing at work? Also, maybe I was lucky to work with people that were funny at my last place, but my current job has people with the worst sense of humor I have ever seen. Nothing but pity laughs from me! I take that back one guy is actually pretty funny.