What to do?
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Want to see what other people would do in this case. What would you do if the sound of the persons voice sitting next to you at work made you want to claw out your own hears so you didn't hear it any more? I have tried head phones but the person is old and hard of hearing so they yell and I can hear them no matter how loud I make the music. And trust me I listen to Heavy Metal so I like it very load. And moving cubicles is out too. No one wants to sit next to this person. It doesn't help they want to talk to me all the time either. But I have gotten past that. I just act extremely busy and pissed off all the time. Now they don't talk to me any more. Just wanted to see what other people might have for suggestions.
I had this issue at work. It got so bad that I went out and paid $300 for these[^] Bose Quiet Comfort 15 headphones. It sounds like a lot but it is totally worth it. In fact, after I explained the reason behind my rise in productivity, my boss actually reimbursed me for the headphones. They have both active and passive noise-cancelling effects that quiet the room almost entirely just by turning them on. Actually playing music through them ensures that you won't hear almost anything else even when they are on the lowest volume. Coworkers' annoying voices just melt away when I'm wearing these.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
I too work in a fairly noisy environment and use pink noise to drown out the ambient noise.
Well I tried out some pink noise samples on youtube and they seem very distracting.
Regards, Nish
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Nish Sivakumar wrote:
pink noise samples on youtube
Elephant YouTube! My handcrafted analog synth pink noise sample has no equal. :cool: Want? /ravi
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Nish Sivakumar wrote:
pink noise samples on youtube
Elephant YouTube! My handcrafted analog synth pink noise sample has no equal. :cool: Want? /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Want?
I'd liek to try it out, so can you email it to me? Thanks :-)
Regards, Nish
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Want?
I'd liek to try it out, so can you email it to me? Thanks :-)
Regards, Nish
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All 302MB of it? :-D Email me your home address and I'll snail mail it to you. /ravi
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All 302MB of it? :-D Email me your home address and I'll snail mail it to you. /ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
All 302MB of it? :-D
Ah I forgot you were in Canada ;P
Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
Email me your home address and I'll snail mail it to you.
Will do.
Regards, Nish
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Want to see what other people would do in this case. What would you do if the sound of the persons voice sitting next to you at work made you want to claw out your own hears so you didn't hear it any more? I have tried head phones but the person is old and hard of hearing so they yell and I can hear them no matter how loud I make the music. And trust me I listen to Heavy Metal so I like it very load. And moving cubicles is out too. No one wants to sit next to this person. It doesn't help they want to talk to me all the time either. But I have gotten past that. I just act extremely busy and pissed off all the time. Now they don't talk to me any more. Just wanted to see what other people might have for suggestions.
DO NOT HAVE YOUR COMPANY INSTALL A NOISE REDUCTION SYSTEM ! It drives everyone in my office crazy ! Sounds like you are in freaking airplane in the office .. it sucks .
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Stab him in the face.
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ChrisElston wrote:
Stab him in the face.
I find this to be the most useful suggestion on this thread. :laugh:
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Try this.... "Excuse me, can you PLEASE STFU????? - I'm trying to work here!!!!" That ought to do it. Seriously though, I had the same problem at my last company. Had a talker who just wouldn't shut up. I finally went to their boss. If they're being disruptive, and you can't work, report it.
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Kevin Marois wrote:
That ought to do it.
If not, follow up with ChrisElston's suggestion[^]...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Want to see what other people would do in this case. What would you do if the sound of the persons voice sitting next to you at work made you want to claw out your own hears so you didn't hear it any more? I have tried head phones but the person is old and hard of hearing so they yell and I can hear them no matter how loud I make the music. And trust me I listen to Heavy Metal so I like it very load. And moving cubicles is out too. No one wants to sit next to this person. It doesn't help they want to talk to me all the time either. But I have gotten past that. I just act extremely busy and pissed off all the time. Now they don't talk to me any more. Just wanted to see what other people might have for suggestions.
I asked to move cubicles. If you can't move quit, if you can't quit, deal.
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Thank you for offering to make the pink noise available. I actually work better with a lot of noise around me. I talked to my manager already and my manager said there was nothing they could do. I am thinking about setting up a mic to record the person than feed the reverse wave into my head phones. I think that would cancel them out completely. Just thought of that from your pink noise example. Thank you very much for that.
GateKeeper22 wrote:
I am thinking about setting up a mic...
May be easier to just buy a pair of noise-cancelling headphones? /ravi
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Nish Sivakumar wrote:
pink noise samples on youtube
Elephant YouTube! My handcrafted analog synth pink noise sample has no equal. :cool: Want? /ravi
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Urgentzz, plz send the wavs...Can you put it up somewhere I can DL it? I usually listen to Classical and Jazz, but some pieces distract me too much that I start enjoying the music. Thanks
SG Aham Brahmasmi!
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Urgentzz, plz send the wavs...Can you put it up somewhere I can DL it? I usually listen to Classical and Jazz, but some pieces distract me too much that I start enjoying the music. Thanks
SG Aham Brahmasmi!
SimulationofSai wrote:
but some pieces distract me too much that I start enjoying the music.
Billions of blue blistering barnacles - that's precisely my problem! Email me your snail mail address and I'll drop a CD in the mail. It's too large (300MB) to email or upload. /ravi
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Want to see what other people would do in this case. What would you do if the sound of the persons voice sitting next to you at work made you want to claw out your own hears so you didn't hear it any more? I have tried head phones but the person is old and hard of hearing so they yell and I can hear them no matter how loud I make the music. And trust me I listen to Heavy Metal so I like it very load. And moving cubicles is out too. No one wants to sit next to this person. It doesn't help they want to talk to me all the time either. But I have gotten past that. I just act extremely busy and pissed off all the time. Now they don't talk to me any more. Just wanted to see what other people might have for suggestions.
Yup, that sounds about right. It wasn't intentional but it worked for me. Unfortunately, I can still hear them across the office.
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All 302MB of it? :-D Email me your home address and I'll snail mail it to you. /ravi
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There's a site for that, is yours different from this? http://www.simplynoise.com/[^] (I used to have a radio tuned between stations a long time ago, had no computer then and never heard of noise having color either :) )
You can download and stream white/pink noise from several sources. I used an analog synth to generate mine, then looped it until it filled 60 minutes. /ravi
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Want to see what other people would do in this case. What would you do if the sound of the persons voice sitting next to you at work made you want to claw out your own hears so you didn't hear it any more? I have tried head phones but the person is old and hard of hearing so they yell and I can hear them no matter how loud I make the music. And trust me I listen to Heavy Metal so I like it very load. And moving cubicles is out too. No one wants to sit next to this person. It doesn't help they want to talk to me all the time either. But I have gotten past that. I just act extremely busy and pissed off all the time. Now they don't talk to me any more. Just wanted to see what other people might have for suggestions.
I had a similar situation a while ago. I talked to the problem person's team lead and didn't get anywhere so I talked to our mutual boss and we decided the best solution was for me to move desks which I had been asking for anyway so I'm away from problem person now.
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Want to see what other people would do in this case. What would you do if the sound of the persons voice sitting next to you at work made you want to claw out your own hears so you didn't hear it any more? I have tried head phones but the person is old and hard of hearing so they yell and I can hear them no matter how loud I make the music. And trust me I listen to Heavy Metal so I like it very load. And moving cubicles is out too. No one wants to sit next to this person. It doesn't help they want to talk to me all the time either. But I have gotten past that. I just act extremely busy and pissed off all the time. Now they don't talk to me any more. Just wanted to see what other people might have for suggestions.
Take it up the management chain until something is done. If you're a valuable member of the team, drop hints about quitting – it's surprising how much that is 'impossible' can be done if a company thinks it's going to lose something valuable. If nothing gets done then you can actually quit and find another job. What is the legal reason that he can't be moved on, if there's nothing for him to do? That sounds like the very definition of 'redundancy' and paying severance has to be cheaper than paying a full salary for someone to sit there and disrupt the other workers.
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Take it up the management chain until something is done. If you're a valuable member of the team, drop hints about quitting – it's surprising how much that is 'impossible' can be done if a company thinks it's going to lose something valuable. If nothing gets done then you can actually quit and find another job. What is the legal reason that he can't be moved on, if there's nothing for him to do? That sounds like the very definition of 'redundancy' and paying severance has to be cheaper than paying a full salary for someone to sit there and disrupt the other workers.
They are worried about the person suing the company. The person is just looking for a reason to sue and they know it. So the company is just letting them be until the person retires or dies. Which ever comes first. The person has already sued the company once so they don't want to risk it again.
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They are worried about the person suing the company. The person is just looking for a reason to sue and they know it. So the company is just letting them be until the person retires or dies. Which ever comes first. The person has already sued the company once so they don't want to risk it again.
Seriously, that is why you need to complain, and encourage others who find it bothersome to do so as well. Often times nobody says anything and the company can't rid themselves of a person like that. If they can fire him for legitimate reasons, they will. A company a friend of mine works for had a person who was constantly bringing charges against people, including my friend. My friend is one of those people who helps everyone and is very considerate of all people. Finally my friend filed a complaint against this person for their behavior. The HR person had told my friend that they have been waiting for someone to complain about the Jack @ss's behavior so they could fire this person for harassing their employees but they could only do so if someone filed a written complaint.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Seriously, that is why you need to complain, and encourage others who find it bothersome to do so as well. Often times nobody says anything and the company can't rid themselves of a person like that. If they can fire him for legitimate reasons, they will. A company a friend of mine works for had a person who was constantly bringing charges against people, including my friend. My friend is one of those people who helps everyone and is very considerate of all people. Finally my friend filed a complaint against this person for their behavior. The HR person had told my friend that they have been waiting for someone to complain about the Jack @ss's behavior so they could fire this person for harassing their employees but they could only do so if someone filed a written complaint.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
Many people have done written complaints and verbal complaints about this person. The company doesn't do any thing about it. The company just says there is nothing they can do. One of the reasons people are leaving quickly. I am search for a new job and I have a feeling that is going to be the only way to fix the problem for me. I wish it wasn't that way because I enjoy the people I work with. But a lot is changing here and I don't like the direction the company is going so I am going to move on before I become miserable.