RWHN's Burning Issue of the Minute

[AFK]

Alright spags, help me out with something here.

A lot of us work in offices, right?  You, like me, work with other people, right?  People there have telephones that ring that they have to answer, or maybe once in awhile a co-worker or boss will have to ask them a question, right? 

Do people at your office work while listening to MP3 players?  I'm talking with the earbuds.  It seems to be the big thing here in my office.  Honestly, it's kind of irritating.  I should have to shout at someone to get their damn attention.  I shouldn't have to go tell someone that their damn phone is ringing.  I shouldn't have to go wave my arms and jump up and down to get someone to pay attention so I can tell them that someone else is trying to get their attention. 

Is this just my kooky office that does this or does this happen at your office to? 

Last I checked laptops had built-in speakers. 

GAAARRRRRR!!!!!

[LMNO]

I work with earbuds, but I keep the volume down so I can hear when the phone rings.

No one wants me to turn my speakers on.

[Don Coyote]

The only time a phone rings for ever is if someone in that section is totally gone. No one listens to music period. Any kind of fun is forbidden while working.

[the last yatto]

Thinkgeek has office warfare supplies

A usb remote control turrent may be the answer your looking for

[Suu]

The only time a phone rings for ever is if someone in that section is totally gone. No one listens to music period. Any kind of fun is forbidden while working.

You're in the wrong branch of the armed forces.

-Suu
They let me walk around bombs and missiles, you know.

[hooplala]

I work with earbuds in all day long, but nobody ever calls for me.  I don't even have a phone on my desk.  On occasion someone will need to tell me something or ask me something, and sometimes they will need to poke me in the back of the head or something... doesn't seem like the end of the world to me.

[AFK]

Okay, maybe I just work with inattentive idiots. 

[the last yatto]

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/e200/

Ahem

[Don Coyote]

The only time a phone rings for ever is if someone in that section is totally gone. No one listens to music period. Any kind of fun is forbidden while working.

You're in the wrong branch of the armed forces.

-Suu
They let me walk around bombs and missiles, you know.

We aren't even allowed to have fun during PT.

"So we are going to run to the lake"
"No we can't the lake outside the designated runnign area."
'Fuck it lets run it anyways"
20 min later the PLT SGT is getting his ass reamed by a random sergeant major for runnign where we were.

Next week
"And I guess we will run around this small 3 mile around where everyone eles is running and we have seen the same shit."
"Fuck this lets jsut do one lap and end PT"
15 min laters
"Um fuck...it's only 0700. Fuck it go conduct hygiene workcall at 0900"


Yes Ft Lewis is fucking retarded.

[AFK]

Okay, but I like my job and don't want to be fired.  

[LMNO]

Okay, maybe I just work with inattentive idiots. 

Or maybe it's that I work in cogville, and Hoops works in porn.  It sounds like your job requires more social interaction between employees.  

[AFK]

Pretty much.  Anyway, I'm just venting.  Pay no attention to the crotchety old man. 

[Disco Pickle]

I wear full size headphones and have the sound turned up loud enough to drowned out everything but the PA and the phone.  I share a cube with another Engineer and he's constantly got people hanging out and bullshitting right behind me. The nature of my work means that I have to stay very focused on what I'm doing to keep from missing something and having a drawing need additional revisions, and it's hard to do that when people are hanging out in the hallway and behind me yakking it up.

The phone, when it rings, is never for me.

I have decent peripheral vision and everyone knows all they have to do is walk up next to me and I'll pull the headphones off to answer whatever question they're asking.

[LMNO]

Similar.  in cube farm, surrounded by chatty cathys.  headphones block out 95%, phone has a light on it and is in direct line of sight.

[AFK]

I think from now on I'm just going to break into an Irish Jig when I'm trying to get someone's attention.  Perhaps the sheer awkwardness and embarrassment will get them to wise up.