Person who sits outside my office has taken to having telephone calls with his four-year-old daughter during office hours. Irritating as he adopts a rather loud and very clear voice for these conversations so it cuts above the general office hum!
I have no intention of saying or doing anything as even I'm not that Scroogish, but really, do people not care for privacy?
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No, they don't care. Until recently I had a bloke next to me at work who would be on the phone incessantly to his family all day, call after call after call - wife, child, father, all in a full voice and all finished with a loud "LOVE YOU". Every. Single. Time.
Two years of that I put up with.
I suppose they think it's all right as it's on their own mobile so not the company phone bill. Which isn't the whole point, it's just totally incosiderate of people around them.
Bit like people who used to smoke in the office/restaurants I suppose. Just a different shade of the same thing. There's no law against it, so they just crack on.
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>>all finished with a loud "LOVE YOU". Every. Single. Time.
I'm just wondering whether you were the chap sitting next to him who moved recently...
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I did move as it goes. 23 miles to Basingstoke. It was that bad.
;-)
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Without wishing to get all 4 yorkshiremen about it, you are lucky to have an office, some of us have worked in open office areas for years and, while you do get used to it, it is very irritating as people spend a lot of time on phones and never seem to realise that you do not need to speak loudly to be heard. I blame bluetooth headsets for mobiles personally.
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She's probably just started talking. My granddaughter has at that age. Recently we had a phone call where I didn't recognise the voice. I thought it was a joker, so I said "Who's that?" She said "It's Sophia!" in a very indignant tone of voice. He's probably feeling the kind of pleasure I felt.
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Fine, but if it's a personal call, get up and go somewhere quieter to take it if at all possible
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For a portrait of bitter personal hatred in a confined space, do read Robert Browning's very funny poem 'Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister'.
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A taster
Gr-r-r--there go, my heart’s abhorrence!
Water your damned flower-pots, do!
If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence,
God’s blood, would not mine kill you!
What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming?
Oh, that rose has prior claims--
Needs its leaden vase filled brimming?
Hell dry you up with its flames!
link to full poem
www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/soliloquy-spanish-cloister
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Phone him up in your best child-impersonation voice and say "Daddy, did you know phones have amplifiers - you don't need to shout?"
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I can think of only one thing more irritating in an office environment than small children; and that's the doting parents of same who unwittingly (or sometimes deliberately) inflict their offspring and their various doings upon you.
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>>you are lucky to have an office,
Really? My door is always wide open (unless I'm talking to the French as we both end up speaking slowly, loudly and clearly). It's open plan with the option of shutting the rest of the world out; why would you. I have colleagues who do keep their doors shut 24/7 and wonder why nobody tells them any gossip and why people don't go in to talk to them.
I'd be just as happy outside the office door.
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At my work, most people don't make personal calls during work time - unless there is some urgent issue that needs to be dealt with. Calls are taken or made during breaks away from the desk.
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"At my work, most people don't make personal calls during work time........."
Phew - I was beginning to think that no one did any work any more.
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>> Phew - I was beginning to think that no one did any work any more.
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Some of us don't get much time away from our desks for a break, on the other hand we can look at forums like this while having a break at our desks between meetings / phone calls etc etc.
I am sure we have asked before how many (other) people access this forum from work at times?
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We have a large modern open plan office. Manager sits at the far end. Our "team" of 3 to 6 workers depending on the shift pattern sit behind large computer screens facing each other - a separate team of similar size sits at behind me, same configuration. Mobiles are banned in principle, mine is on my desk in silent mode. Any calls to our mobiles are answered outside the office. It's fine. I listen to music on my iPhone when I'm writing up stuff and have the ability to "zone out" completely with or without headphones. The only problem we have is that our office has no "outside" windows only internal open ones that look across to other offices across what I call the bear pit a large space that runs from floor to roof (this is occupied by a sort of recreation area tables chairs and a TV) This can get noisy occasionally.....the worse thing is that directly opposite one floor down is a small cafe area. Being a 24/7 building on particular mornings the heady smell of a fried breakfast floats across - yummy...you also get to know what's on the menu by smells alone....I and a like minded soul from another office are talking about a drone to fly across the bear pit to the cafe to collect bacon rolls....
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>> At my work, most people don't make personal calls during work time - unless there
>> is some urgent issue that needs to be dealt with. Calls are taken or made
>> during breaks away from the desk.
Company I worked for hate employees, so they did away with desks.
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Last edited by: Zero on Fri 29 Jan 16 at 10:30
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The last place I worked had less than 50% desks for staff. You were expected to work from home. Some managers tried rota'ing staff to ensure some people came into the office once in a while, never really worked for most. People adapted well though some skived. Funniest instance was a junior female project officer who came onto a mid-day conference call with her webcam accidentally on, and she was in dressing gown (luckily, as it was thought there was not much else!!) and curlers or whatever they use today..
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>> And profits
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But I bet the company directors didn't lose out.
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Not sure head honcho will be around for much longer, but will get a good payoff.
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Our office is completely open plan. We moved into new offices about 2 years ago, and it was decided nobody regardless of position would have their own office.
We have a couple of members of our team who spend a considerable amount of their working day making / receiving personal calls, but as they are Female the management cant / wont say anything only the same is not true if you are Male.
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Irritation in the office - Alanovich
