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)

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.

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".

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.

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

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.

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?*

Throw the co-worker out the window :)

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...

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

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)

:D

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

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.

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

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

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!

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.

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...

"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!

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

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.

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.

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