CST’s Daily Dose
What have I learned about her now, that anyone on this floor now knows
due to the loud voice? That she spends the holidays with her
ex-boyfriend’s family, which gets complicated when he brings girlfriends
and spouses over.
I’m bemused about it because it’s not like *I* don’t visit jupiters_angel‘s family around Christmas Time, and that has
certainly had unusual effects when she brings an S.O. that isn’t
comfortable with it. BUT I DON’T SHOUT IT OVER THE PHONE AT WORK.
I should say that she’s been detailing this for about 20 minutes.
“I’m telling you I’m starting to think I’m doomed to be a single
mother.”
“LALALALALALA, NOT LISTENING…”
EDIT: “having my first son’s father marry a girl 18 years younger didn’t help with that”
“The last time I saw him, he was in prison.”
“Those are some strange places you’re getting sunburned.”
And if it does, remind me not to go there
The weather affects my knee”
Hahahaha! The saga continues!
One of my favorite overheard conversations involved being in the women’s bathroom at work, with three stalls, and having two employees who were friends, and one dating the person I most directly worked with at the time, come in while I was sitting there (playing games on my Handspring, it was where I took five-minute breaks throughout the day) and getting to hear the one dating my co-editor tell the other, over my head, that she was SO CONSTIPATED because she couldn’t poop in the toilet of someone she was sleeping with because she didn’t want him to associate her with poop, so she tried to go before she went to his house on Friday, and couldn’t, and had to hold it all weekend because she spent the whole weekend at his house, and they didn’t go anywhere, so she figured she could go at work on Monday and now she couldn’t, and owwwwwwwwwww! I’m not sure they realized anyone was there, or perhaps that it was me.
Hehehe, the bathroom confessional.
Man, you know everyone.
Your story reminds me of this fellow I knew in college. My junior year, he lived on the floor below me, and he would always come up to our floor to take a crap.
I love that last one!
How many people are stuck in this office listening to this nutbag?
Well, it’s a large office, but the cubes all have half-walls, maybe waist-high when standing. I’d say maybe six people were close enough to hear her normal voice, and anywhere from 10 to the whole floor when she got excited.
I think that there is a rule that in any largish office, there must be one person who is loud and obnoxious on the phone. If that person leaves, a new obnoxious phone person must arrive, or a previously normal person must become an obnoxious phone person. It is a law!
Y’know, every time I’m in some public venue (or sitting somewhere that should be private) and cannot help but hear some “no inside voice” idjit shouting to the person next to them or yammering into a cell phone, I’m soooo tempted to include myself in the conversation. I’ve sat on that impulse every time, because my fertile imagination can cultivate a dozen bad consequences in seconds, but it is pleasant to imagine the idjit’s dismay that their “private” conversation is the subject of common mockery.
— Steve’s wondering if the “Loud Larry” epidemic can be laid at the feet of iPods/Walkmans… or if things were always this bad and he just didn’t notice until now.
I did that a few times. Result: woman looked at me like i was crazy and inappropriately intruding on her private life. Like I’d been snooping or something.
I guess the question is: Why hasn’t anyone said anything to management about this?
no doubt! Also, inform management and HR that you’d like a better office and parking after the rapture.
I have my work-arounds (like my headphones) – She’s not trying to be a jerk, she’s just, uhm, a few lincoln logs short of a cabin.
I find it irritating, but not enough to threaten her job.
I wasn’t really suggesting threatening her job. A few words from her manager advising her to keep it down to a dull roar might be all it takes.
True. I do pity her for her manager, though – “harridan” comes to mind.
Does this woman ever work, or is she just chatting with her friends all the time?
Some days she does lots of work. The office isn’t full, today, so I imagine she’s got more time on her hands.