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    What about food sounds?

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    by shellbot ·

    Ok..JD started us on the smelly food thing..but what about sounds?

    I like a nice quiet space when i am concentrating and trying to get things done. Well, i like music, but i don’t like people sounds..(again, yes, i know i am anti social)

    Now..15 mins ago, my co-worker started in on a bag of Pistatio nuts.

    *crack* *crack*
    *crunch* *crunch* *crunch* *crunch*

    She chews with her mouth open which only amplifies the sound!!!!

    Pretty soon i am going to take the friggin bag and throw them out the window..

    *sob* please people..don’t chew with yer mouth open if you can help it!

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    • #3284056

      The cure

      by neilb@uk ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      Stick up a photograph of the offender in full open munchmode. It’s probably better if you can get a candid shot so that they don’t know the source.

      :^0 (Closest emoticon I could get)

      • #3284054

        hmmm

        by shellbot ·

        In reply to The cure

        i like it Neil 🙂

        now..do they still sell those spy camera’s at the back of the comic books? might be the best thing to get the job done..

        • #3284047

          Ask him about the cameras

          by tig2 ·

          In reply to hmmm

          He installed in the loo where GG works!

          Neil- left yourself wide open here. And don’t blame JD. He doesn’t like girls, remember?

          Shell- The best you can do is tell the offender that she is offensive. Anyone who chews with their mouth open is offensive. Sheesh!

        • #3284029

          Only two options here

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to Ask him about the cameras

          one, put up with enjoying the view.

          two, ask the person nicely to close their mouth when they are chewing.

          There is not a easy way to do the second that will not embarrass the offender, but anyone that is that boarish deserves to be embarrassed.

          hey, your NEW phone has a camera, right? Or did you dunk that one too? :0

        • #3284015

          haha

          by shellbot ·

          In reply to Only two options here

          yes..phone has a camera..nope, not dunked it yet..

          one day i’ll even take a picture with it 🙂

          maybe of my overloaded desk or something..or the view from my office..

          i’ll even post it up..just to make use of d@mn camera

      • #3284049

        Another cure

        by tony hopkinson ·

        In reply to The cure

        Swap them for almonds.

        • #3283983

          yet another cure

          by jck ·

          In reply to Another cure

          make sure they’re not allergic to peppers…then, soak their foods in haba?ero sauce…and dry them (in an oven)…then…watch their mouth stay open as they suffer…

    • #3284050

      Food sounds not so mucha problem here

      by jck ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      It’s just all the chatter around me all day…I can’t get work done sometimes because I need to concentrate…

      only time food sounds get irritating to me is at the movies…that’s why I tend not to go to a public movie theatre.

      • #3284032

        ok

        by shellbot ·

        In reply to Food sounds not so mucha problem here

        so, do you have your own private movie theatre?

        🙂

        a wee bit special don’t ya think?:)

        • #3284026

          oh, he is just

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to ok

          anti-social! :p

          Like you can go to a movie and not get a popcorn? We have rules around here, mr. B-)

          crunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunch

        • #3283996

          He just doesn’t go to the movies with kids

          by neilb@uk ·

          In reply to oh, he is just

          Whenever I take either or both of my godkids, I have to buy them their own weight in popcorn and listen to the film through the sound of the march of Napoleon’s Army to Moscow…

          crunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrunchcrun

          (to cut and paste)

          😀

        • #3283990

          figures, Dad

          by jck ·

          In reply to He just doesn’t go to the movies with kids

          you’d let mom smack my yapper if I chewed with my mouth open…

          No more free beers for you!! 😀

        • #3283991

          can you blame me, jdclyde

          by jck ·

          In reply to oh, he is just

          with people like you attending movies? :p

          and you think you’re so civil…have some manners and close your mouth when you chew like your mother taught you :p

        • #3283993

          Shell…if you must know…

          by jck ·

          In reply to ok

          Yes. I have a flat panel LCD tele, Dolby Surround processor w/theatre speaker system, DVD changer with Dolby Decoder, etc etc…

          I have a private theatre in my own living room…and, I could very much hook a PC up to my television (DVI) and do movies from the computer as well

          it’s nice to be a technophile. 😀

          P.S. – Yes, I have a dolby sound card in the PC 😉

    • #3284041

      One of my employees

      by maecuff ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      had a melt down last week. I’m in my office and I can hear a lot, but not everything. Out of the blue, I hear her yell “Whoever is clipping their fingernails, STOP IT NOW or I will take your f*cking clippers and shove them up your a$$”. Then I hear a tiny little..”Sorry”.

      • #3284033

        wow

        by shellbot ·

        In reply to One of my employees

        yup, i would have melted down as well..thats just plain gross

        • #3284023

          oh man

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to wow

          I JUST got done clipping my nails too. Seriously. :0

          But then again, I have an office so no one can hear it. Glad I am now stuck in cubical hell!

          They made a new wing to our corporate offices and moved everyone but IT over there (the “computer room” is in the old section, so it makes sense to stay there) and I pretty much got my pick of offices! Of course I intentionally didn’t take the nicest ones because I knew if someone from higher up the food chain came back to this section, these offices would be reclaimed. I was right, and they were! Still got an office though!

          clip clip!

      • #3282949

        Worth reading thread for this one

        by think180 ·

        In reply to One of my employees

        Maecuff – thanks for this. The image it conjured up brought a
        much needed laugh.

        Talking of laughs, in one of my former existences, in cubicle-
        land, my neighbor co-worker had this routine of calling her
        close friend on the opposite coast every afternoon at 5:30 pm.

        Unfortunately, this co-worker had a laugh that started with a
        protracted guttural snigger that exhausted her lung capacity,
        and finished with a vocal sucking in of breath like a drowning
        person surfacing.

        Since this seemed also to be a nervous habit, it was
        (presumably) not predicated on the other party saying anyhting
        funny.

        The net result like a soundbyte Sybil Fawlty (Fawlty Towers) on
        endless loop.

        It drove me nuts. But what’re you gonna do?

    • #3284039

      There’s only one cure for lip smackin’

      by dmambo ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      and that’s a terrible death.

      That’s a sound that MAKES ME CRAZY. I think it’s because my father was a lip smacker and during the troubled teenage years, it was just something that I used to create resentment against The Man. (It’s tough to rebellious when you live in a comfortable home with a loving family…blah, blah, blah. You have to really look for things to spur you to Fight the Power 🙂 )

      Be careful Shell, if you try to speak to the person about it, she will flip out. Smackers are not normal people like you and me. They are insane, maniacal sociopaths. You might be best to just kill her slowly and painfully in front of all your coworkers. That will send the message that needs to be heard loud and clear throughout your office. It’s the only way to keep your sanity.

      • #3284037

        I am so with you.

        by maecuff ·

        In reply to There’s only one cure for lip smackin’

        My father, not only smacks his lips, but he slurps. Everything! How in the hell he can manage to slurp eating a sandwich is beyond me, but he can.

        • #3284025

          Ya know what my wife does?!?

          by dmambo ·

          In reply to I am so with you.

          When she’s eating a bowl of Cheerios (any variety; regular, Honey Nut, Berry Berry…) she puts a spoonful into her mouth, then kind of sucks the milk out and sends that down before crunching the cereal and eating that.

          The description doesn’t do it justice. Try it to see for yourself just how annoying it is. Ughhh! I have to get up early on weekends and have breakfast alone due to the possibility that she might choose to eat Cherrios.

          (Am I a little TOO sensitive to food sounds? I don’t think so.)

        • #3284014

          yeesh

          by shellbot ·

          In reply to Ya know what my wife does?!?

          thats not normal..

          my better half smacks once in a while..but now that we at the comfortable stage of marriage, i tell him shut his mouth and keep it quiet ..

          on some people i have occasionally resorted to running my nails down something squeky for the “chalkboard” effect..usually stops them in thier tracks..oddly enough that sound don’t bug me..so many other have a problem with it though.

          *spine shivers anyone?*

        • #3283985

          Mambo

          by maecuff ·

          In reply to Ya know what my wife does?!?

          my stepdaughter CANNOT drink soda from a can without slurping it. It drives me NUTS. I’m with you, I can’t stand noisy eaters.

        • #3202733

          Hahahaha..reminds me of…

          by gaijinit ·

          In reply to Mambo

          Here in Japan, people love to eat ‘ramen’, or noodle soup – there are shops everywhere, more than they have ‘Starbucks’ in Seattle.

          They also believe the only way to eat any soup is if it is served literally still boiling hot, to get all the flavor. When eating soup, Japanese (men) will ‘draw’ loudly inhale air into their mouth to mix the soup with air to cool it off so they don’t burn themselves. Then after eating, they will lean back in their chair, unhook their belt, pull their pants down a bit in the front to give their satisfied belly some space to relax in for a few minutes, and start loudly sucking their teeth (mouth open). Velly stlange.

          So if gross, open mouthed noises bother you (they do me too, but I just take with a laugh) I advise you to avoid the local eateries in Japan, it’s truly amazing the amount of loud slurping that goes on. It is such a habit, they even do it when eating a steak!

          Strangely, only the men seem to do this, the ladies take it slower, talking with each other until their soup cools down a bit.

      • #3284034

        i hear ya

        by shellbot ·

        In reply to There’s only one cure for lip smackin’

        my sister would make the worst smacking sounds while eating dill pickles..

        i used to smack her for it…i was 10 🙂

        she went out for a bit now..i’m seriously considering stealing her nuts and chucking em..
        then playing innocent

      • #3284020

        And here I thought what made you crazy

        by jdclyde ·

        In reply to There’s only one cure for lip smackin’

        was when your wife would say “commercials are on, you got three minutes!” ]:)

        • #3201611

          A lot of things make me crazy

          by dmambo ·

          In reply to And here I thought what made you crazy

          As far as the three minute warning goes, that’s only for hockey season. She is Canadian, after all.

          Overall, believe it or not, there are many, many things that get under good ole, easy-going Mambo’s skin. My greatest fantasy is to live in a world populated only by Mambos and Mambettes. All begat in my own image. How wonderful that would be! And also, no cats.

        • #3201604

          begat..

          by shellbot ·

          In reply to A lot of things make me crazy

          a very biblical word…not something you see in everyday usage.

          i have an ongoing list of things that annoy me..generally most of them all relate to other people..

          somehting concerns me though Mambo..do you fantasize that the Mambettes are in your own image as well?

          Would be handy in a way, cause if someone tells you to go eff yerself..you literally could..

          ok..getting too weird now..its almost quitting time..yay

    • #3284016

      Poor Shell

      by jdclyde ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      I feel your pain. While hearing the crunching would not be as big a deal for me, seeing people chew with their mouths open really gets to me. ewwww!

      Went out to eat last week and the first thing I noticed was these three little kids CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP. Made myself a mental bet that if all three were chompers, that their parents would be too as they had to get it from somewhere. So I check on mom on the end and CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP.

      Sadly, I won that bet to myself.

      I got up and moved to a different table.

    • #3284010

      Keep the Pistatios

      by tonythetiger ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      Throw the co-worker out the window 🙂

      • #3284005

        nice

        by shellbot ·

        In reply to Keep the Pistatios

        shows initiative..

        when i’m a multimillionaire, you get a high paying job in my company.

    • #3284008

      oh god..

      by shellbot ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      she’s back and its worse..

      she is now sucking them before she cracks them open!!!

      fecker of it is..she missing one of her front teeth (has a bridge and it broke last night or soemthing) so now she’s whistling as she sucks as well..

      (don’t get too excited JD 🙂 )

      Guys, i just don’t have the goolies to say anything 🙁
      So i gonna be stuck with it, and i forgot my mp3 player at home…

    • #3284007

      Corporate culture

      by jamesrl ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      Our company traditionally frowns on eating at your desk. We have a lunch room. If you want a five minute break, go to the lunch room and munch.

      In 2 and a half years here, I’ve eaten at my desk twice (and yes I have an office and close my door). Both times its because i’ve had meetings booked through lunch, and I’m not charing the meeting, so I put my phone on mute.

      Eeven when we’ve had catered meetings, we tend to eat first before settling down to business.

      James

      • #3284001

        not so here

        by shellbot ·

        In reply to Corporate culture

        we have a lunch room, but unless you want to hear a bunch of airheads talking about Posh Spice and other such earth shattering topics..you don’t go near it.

        i eat at my desk, but very quietly..people snack at thier desks all the time..generally its ok..,but this one is just doing my head in.

        she’s a new staff member (well, here a month) so i guess we just have to get used to her quirks..

        ugh..

        • #3283989

          no no no shell

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to not so here

          it means you still have to break her in! B-)

          They have that sour spray candy for kids. You go get some of that and spray her nuts!

          (wow, that sounded bad!) :p

        • #3283972

          ok jd

          by shellbot ·

          In reply to no no no shell

          not everyone is into that kinda thing…but you haev fun anyways 🙂

          ya..i can’t be @rsed to break her in..3rd one in her position in a year..so i’ve already invested too much time in the “employee” who takes up that chair.

          yet more of my anti social tendancies showing through.

          hmm..just got an email 2 mins ago..”double entendres”..i’ll post it for the laugh

        • #3201571

          oh, it is THAT position

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to ok jd

          the ever revolving door position. We have a few of those.

          It got so bad at one location the email account is “Receptionist”, and just change the password. :0 Otherwise no one would ever know who to email to get that position!

          and yes, I got a laugh from your post! 😀

        • #3201546

          ya know, Shell…

          by jck ·

          In reply to ok jd

          you could get me hired in that position… 😀 hehehehe

          As long as Ireland makes Guinness, you know I won’t leave 😉

        • #3201334

          probably not yer thing

          by shellbot ·

          In reply to ya know, Shell…

          odly enough it shouldn’t be revolving door..they just keep getting fed up with the bullsh1t.

          its a Research Officer..you’d need a Phd in i think..or something like that..nothing to do with computers so i don’t much pay attention to it.

          she asked me yesterday what the difference was between right and left mouse clicks..well what can i say to that?

    • #3282972

      I’m guilty

      by xt john ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      I must confess, I’m the office chomper. My weakness being popcorn… between the bag rattling, the handfuls shoved in, trying to talk on the phone with a mouthful, etc. It’s payback from me to the office guy that gets under my skin… the guy who’s always cleaning his ears with a foreign object. Keys, small screwdrivers, his one extra long pinkie nail. I dunno how I can even eat, just thinking about it!

      • #3282941

        popcorn revenge

        by jdclyde ·

        In reply to I’m guilty

        Where you open and close the bag a few times to make sure that the smell has completely filled the air….. ;\

        I HATE reaching into a bad of popcorn.

        I take a coffee filter and use it as a bowl!

        • #3282906

          Nevermind the nuts, the popcorn, etc…

          by metilley9 ·

          In reply to popcorn revenge

          It’s after these slobs finish… THAT’S WHEN THE REAL PROBLEMS BEGIN!

          I used to consult for a company in Texas. This was a cubicle environment. As a consultant, I had no rights and had to endure the surrounding cubicles and the “people” that occupied them. There was this one guy, I swear he was close to 600 pounds! I think he slept there because he was ALWAYS there. When I arrived at 8 a.m. he was there. When I left at 6 p.m. he was there.

          At precisely 11:30 a.m. each morning, he would make his daily trek to Taco Bell and bring back his lunch. Lunch consisted of at least a dozen beef and bean burritos, the spicy kind with the green sauce. He would “chase” each with french fries he picked up at What-A-Burger, another fast food restaurant indiginous to Texas. The french fry bag was half the size of a grocery bag so he must’ve ordered about 20 servings. All of that was followed by a six-pack of “Diet” Dr. Pepper.

          This guy followed the same regiment five days a week without exception. It took approximately two hours to eat all of this crap each day but he worked while he consumed.

          Starting around 3 p.m., the flagalence would start along with the noise. He would literally raise one side of his enormous butt a few inches off his seat and release the gas! This was followed by a resounding, “Ohhhhh!!!” or “Yeah, Baby, Yeah!” 🙁 On rare occasions when he used the bathroom, the restroom was uninhabitable for several hours afterwards because of the odor or because a plumber had to be called to fix the clog!

          I asked to be moved but there were no other seats available. I contacted my consulting manager and she didn’t believe me. I worked overtime to finish my project before the scheduled due date and didn’t bill the company for it. I wanted out! People said I should’ve contacted OSHA, but that would’ve taken time and gotten me (and my company) into trouble.

          Do you have any comments? I think this was a lot worse than popcorn or peanut munching (or nail clipping), but maybe not.

        • #3282665

          You know what they say

          by jdclyde ·

          In reply to Nevermind the nuts, the popcorn, etc…

          “A body like that don’t come cheap!” :0

          I don’t know who is the guilty party, but a few times a week one of the FRONT bathrooms right up by everybody gets nailed hard. I mean, you can’t walk up the hallway to go past it, let along IN it!

          The least they could do is to go to the end one!

        • #3200317

          Sounds like a comp case!

          by xt john ·

          In reply to Nevermind the nuts, the popcorn, etc…

          You should have been entitled to workman’s comp, hazard pay and a huge year end bonus!

    • #3282840

      How about keyboarding?

      by dm935 ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      Food sounds can be annoying I grant you but nothing compares to the sound of someone hammering away on their keys. I understand that at some point (tight deadline, etc.) it might be acceptable but I just can’t stand it if their is no particular reason for it.

      My personal experience ended up quite explosively when the clattering employee got up for a break after an exhausting 15 minutes of clacking. I was on a deadline (he wasn’t) and couldn’t stand listening anymore so I got up and smashed the center of the keyboard with my fist! It sent key caps flying about the cube and all of my co-workers burst out laughing.

      He came back and didn’t say a word but did go searching for the caps, reconnecting them as he went. At least the clacking stopped for ONE day.

      • #3282826

        M y old

        by maecuff ·

        In reply to How about keyboarding?

        boss used to pound his keys. I’m pretty sure it’s because he was in severe need of attention..

    • #3282670

      You people need to get out more…

      by gaijinit ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      All of you complaining need to ask your boss if you can move your desk/cubicle to an unused storeroom or basement somewhere where you can be totally alone. I never heard of such BS!

      You work in an office with other people. You can’t expect them to always be the way YOU want them to be, ADAPT! Get over it! Either that, or become a consultant and telecommute. Poor mistreated babies, sitting in an air-conditioned office on your butts all day, you have it oh so rough, having to listen to the noise fellow humans make in the process of living their lives in the same space as you.

      We “IT professionals” are often considered by a lot of people as choosing our careers because we are introverted or anti-social, and use our skills to shroud ouselves in an aura of superior knowledge so others will keep their distance. Your complaints only add fuel to that fire.

      Everyone (I would hope, anyway) reading this forum knows the truth – that we simply like our jobs – either for the mental challenges it offers or because we are die-hard ‘gear-heads’ and like to mess around with complex ‘toys’ to see what makes them tick (me).

      There is no such thing as a serenely quiet office. Copy machines, phones ringing, people discussing projects, talking on the phone, doors slamming, come on, learn to live with it. If you can’t handle it, become a forest ranger.

      If someone is eating pistachios near you, ask them if you can have some, saying “they really sound delicious.” You can catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar – just do your job & get along.

      If a bit of noise is enough to make you flip out, then you need to get more sleep at night or do something to vent off some of your tension. If the noise really bothers you that much, wear some of those airline ‘ear plugs’. If you can afford them, buy a pair of Bose ANR headphones. If your boss accuses you of listening to music (if that’s not permitted in your office), tell him/her why you are wearing them (without pointing any fingers at any of your co-workers). But the first time you don’t respond to someone calling your name for something important because you are aurally isolated, be prepared for the flack.

      As for the person who obscenely yelled about someone clippping their fingernails, where I work, they would first be reprimanded (at the very least) for using language like that and secondly, made to appologize to whoever they shouted at.

      Like Otis Redding said, “Try a little tolerance”. Heheheheh…

      • #3282664

        Well, that wasn’t

        by jdclyde ·

        In reply to You people need to get out more…

        very tolerant of you…….

      • #3282658

        Try work with us!!!

        by viper777 ·

        In reply to You people need to get out more…

        We will be shifting into sardine cubicles next year (Typical government stance) and we will be smelling each others armpits just about. I have a “co-worker” (but barely makes the grade) and she eats throughout the day – she is ruddy huge. She is highly aggresive and nonsense judgemental if things don’t go her own way. The boss does try to calm her down but… She can’t be rid off because she knows a few things the rest don’t in her job.

        Most of us in this unit, wear headphones or ear bud phones so we can listen to our radios / CD without others complaining; it doesn’t help the social interactions that a “Team” should have. We have moody people hear and one hates the other; some jobs to classification is a joke and son on.

        By putting people too close together, you will have to put up with a lot of shyte and really, some should be able to enjoy their work without such cr@p happening. We don’t expect offices for each in a central building but a bit of privacy and “space” to remain sane, as we most of the time can’t pick and choose who we want to “live near” in our working day.

        Food in this case is the least of our worries.

        • #3282643

          Tolerance is not a job requirement

          by metilley9 ·

          In reply to Try work with us!!!

          But common courtesy is. Is “GaijinIT” that burrito eater or just some suit that doesn’t understand what real IT workers have to deal with (because they are hold up in their cushy, sound-proofed offices)? Or is he/she more like a non-IT type, maybe a blue (or gray) collar worker that wishes he/she had the brain matter to be in the IT industry?

          In any event, “GaijinIT”, please SHUT UP!

          Perhaps in the not too distance future, most IT jobs will be carried out in the comfort of your own private home (i.e. telecommuting). With the price of gasoline the way it is and with a do nothing government to keep it that way, telecommuting sounds better and better all the time.

        • #3204694

          Maybe so, but…

          by gaijinit ·

          In reply to Tolerance is not a job requirement

          I don’t remember attacking anybody with name calling or derogatory remarks. And yes, I am and have been an “IT pro” for more than 20 years, how about you?

          Burrito eater? So you are a racist and hate Mexicans too? Why, afraid one of them might take your job? To enlighten your ignorance, ‘Gaijin’ means ‘foreigner’ in Japanese, and being an electrical engineer, I have been doing IT work as either a consultant or a company employee over here in Tokyo since 1984. I hate neckties and never wear a suit, since I don’t want to ruin it with some solvent or something while I’m cleaning up the guts of a PC or crawling through some cable ducts.

          I was probably configuring multi-server networks when you were in grade school. But I don’t know that for sure, so I won’t bad mouth you like you did me. You want to talk about professionalism, attacking someone personally and calling them names and insulting them when you don’t even know them is not very professional. It’s a good idea you like to hide in the back room with all the hardware, you wouldn’t last 10 minutes with a customer with an attitude like that.

          I work in an open air office, no walls or cubicles, just desks arranged in rows back-to-back so we can all converse and work together on projects. Get it? TOGETHER. That means noise, and people eating at their desks when they are involved in an important phone call.

          You sound like one of those young thinks-he/she-knows-it-all IT types who keep everyone at bay with a lot of buzzwords just in case they might find out how little you really know.

          So without getting too personal, since you told me to shut up, I’m telling you to take a flying f**k at a rolling donut.

      • #3226941

        The cool

        by maecuff ·

        In reply to You people need to get out more…

        thing here is..we don’t worry too much over the words each other use. No one runs home crying over the ‘f’ word.

        • #3202736

          I thought so, but…..

          by gaijinit ·

          In reply to The cool

          Thanks ‘maecuff’ – I’m not offended by the foulest language, after 7 years in the Navy and working all over the world, often on oil platforms or other ‘guys only’ environments installing telecom and control systems, I just didn’t want to include anything that might keep my comments from being posted.

        • #3138408

          That’s cool..

          by maecuff ·

          In reply to I thought so, but…..

          but I think we’re talking about two different things..and why did you put quotes around maecuff? Just wondering.

        • #3138362

          Thanks

          by gaijinit ·

          In reply to That’s cool..

          I read these postings a lot, but usually don’t respond to very many of them unless it is something I feel I can contribute to or maybe make comments voicing my own opinion.

          So I’m not really in sync with proper blogging or writing on these discussion boards, and I put the quotes around maecuff because I just figured since that was your alias, I should treat it as such, and usually aliases are written with quotes around it. At least I seem to remember seeing it that way in books and things. I’m probably just being too formal, when the atmosphere on these discussions is definiitely open and friendly (at least most of the time).

          Anyhoo, I didn’t mean anything by it, sorry if I made you feel awkward or if you thought I was highlighting it for sarcasm or something – not my intention at all, just trying to be polite.

          See ya next time.
          Keep up the good fight.

        • #3139014

          Okay

          by maecuff ·

          In reply to Thanks

          I only wondered.

    • #3226719

      My sympathy

      by ljkinder ·

      In reply to What about food sounds?

      Unfortunately, manners aren’t taught in the home or anywhere else anymore. Try using headphones, especially when they start eating. Then, if the boss mentions something to you; perfect opportunity. Whatever you do, DON’T tell this obnoxious person about their annoying behavior; as they will make it a CAREER to do so in your presence.

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