Cubicle noise
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She isn't talking because of her problems, she is talking about her problems just to fulfill her need to talk. Don't think like a man when you listen to a woman, think like a woman. Men aren't mind readers, and women don't talk to resolve problems. They talk to share their state of mind, it's their nature. Took me 20 years to figure it out, Now, if I can only understand the next thing on my list... Karell
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Okay, in a cublicle nearby two girls have been talking about the one girl's boyfriend problems for about 20 minutes now. I have an ear infection and can't wear my headphones. I want to go over there and say, "If you spend as much time communicating to your boyfriend what you are communicating to your friends you probably wouldn't have these problems. Men aren't mind readers."
leckey wrote:
Men aren't mind readers
We are - just see with how few talking groups of men go by. But what goes on in a womens head scares us to death, so we turn it off around them.
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Well - *I'm SORRY* Just because you didn't pick up on that just means that you aren't the stereotype woman. Which, in my book (and most men), is a good thing. Hang in there, the day is almost over you can go home and give that ear a rest away from your talkative co-worker. Personally, I hate cube farms, I'm sure that you will agree that they aren't the best for concentration and productivity. If I have my way, I'd be working in a box (sound-wise). I'm not against communication but there is a reason why we use the telephone and not intercoms, it's to filter out irrelevant noise and distractions and allow us to focus on what we should be doing. And hell, to be honest I'd have to agree with you, if she'd talk to her boyfriend a bit more instead of to her co-workers, she probably wouldn't have so many problems. But if you tell her that you will be removing a nice opportunity for her to get some attention. Maybe that's what she's really after...
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Yes, but you're a programmer. If programmers thought like women, we'd forever be clicking through message boxes. Oh, wait... :doh:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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Yes, but you're a programmer. If programmers thought like women, we'd forever be clicking through message boxes. Oh, wait... :doh:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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Okay, in a cublicle nearby two girls have been talking about the one girl's boyfriend problems for about 20 minutes now. I have an ear infection and can't wear my headphones. I want to go over there and say, "If you spend as much time communicating to your boyfriend what you are communicating to your friends you probably wouldn't have these problems. Men aren't mind readers."
Start singing Christmas carols. Or whistling, preferably slightly off-key. They'll move...
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
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No - that's different... Those are the non-thinking programmers, the one that just execute without asking any questions or opinions. The fact that she raised her point to this situation excludes her from the non-thinking stock.
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Yes, but you're a programmer. If programmers thought like women, we'd forever be clicking through message boxes. Oh, wait... :doh:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
They'd never be happy with simple answers like "Yes", "No" or "OK". Ignore would not be an option, but "Retry" might work from time to time.
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Quick question Can you tell me who sang "Time to say goodbye" with Bocelli? If you say Celine Dion, i'm jumping off the roof... I'm talking about the real singer...
Sarah Brightman
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Quick question Can you tell me who sang "Time to say goodbye" with Bocelli? If you say Celine Dion, i'm jumping off the roof... I'm talking about the real singer...
It was Sarah Brightman, who starred in the original "Phantom of the Opera".
John P.
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Did you expect him to read your mind? Or even your profile? ;)
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She isn't talking because of her problems, she is talking about her problems just to fulfill her need to talk. Don't think like a man when you listen to a woman, think like a woman. Men aren't mind readers, and women don't talk to resolve problems. They talk to share their state of mind, it's their nature. Took me 20 years to figure it out, Now, if I can only understand the next thing on my list... Karell
Karell wrote:
Took me 20 years to figure it out,
So your a man that actually thinks he understands women? Quite the achievement. You might be the only one. ;) The more I learn, the more I learn that I don't know.
This statement is false.
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Okay, in a cublicle nearby two girls have been talking about the one girl's boyfriend problems for about 20 minutes now. I have an ear infection and can't wear my headphones. I want to go over there and say, "If you spend as much time communicating to your boyfriend what you are communicating to your friends you probably wouldn't have these problems. Men aren't mind readers."
Cubicle noise.. That is one of the reasons I can't work in a cubicle. Starting a new project or jobb I always ensure that I get a room for myself. Everything else doesn't really matter. jhaga
It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. A[man], seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. — business! - I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
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Okay, in a cublicle nearby two girls have been talking about the one girl's boyfriend problems for about 20 minutes now. I have an ear infection and can't wear my headphones. I want to go over there and say, "If you spend as much time communicating to your boyfriend what you are communicating to your friends you probably wouldn't have these problems. Men aren't mind readers."
leckey wrote:
Men aren't mind readers
that guy on Heroes is. but it's going to get him into trouble with his wife, sooner or later.
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Okay, in a cublicle nearby two girls have been talking about the one girl's boyfriend problems for about 20 minutes now. I have an ear infection and can't wear my headphones. I want to go over there and say, "If you spend as much time communicating to your boyfriend what you are communicating to your friends you probably wouldn't have these problems. Men aren't mind readers."
I've always had a reputation for being a somewhat, er, colorful character, and I make it a point to maintain that. Comes in handy for times like these. Although it's a very mild example of what I'm known to do when confronted with the incompetent or inconsiderate, in this case I'd simply stick my head out the cube and (very loudly) tell them to move along so that I could go back to sleep. Most clueless people are also :baaaa!:. One good bark usually does the trick. :-D
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Yes, but you're a programmer. If programmers thought like women, we'd forever be clicking through message boxes. Oh, wait... :doh:
every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Karell wrote:
Took me 20 years to figure it out,
So your a man that actually thinks he understands women? Quite the achievement. You might be the only one. ;) The more I learn, the more I learn that I don't know.
This statement is false.
Chris S Kaiser wrote:
So your a man that actually thinks he understands women?
Any man who claims to understand the plural, doesn't know what he is talking about, just as any women who claims to understand the plural. If you are very lucky, and very skillful, and very attentive, you might understand one, the one you are with. And in the end, that is the only one that counts. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Chris S Kaiser wrote:
So your a man that actually thinks he understands women?
Any man who claims to understand the plural, doesn't know what he is talking about, just as any women who claims to understand the plural. If you are very lucky, and very skillful, and very attentive, you might understand one, the one you are with. And in the end, that is the only one that counts. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Too true... too true.. And even this is taking a lifetime. Albeit, its definately worth the effort. :)
This statement is false.
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They'd never be happy with simple answers like "Yes", "No" or "OK". Ignore would not be an option, but "Retry" might work from time to time.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
Linkify! || Fold With Us! || sighist"Yes, No, Whatever". We nearly coded that for one of our support ladies at my one client.