Would this annoy you ?

Tusky

I work in an open plan office and alot of the day is spent on the phone. There is one woman at the other end of the office and she is driving me mad. She dials a number, turns the phone on speaker phone and leaves it ringing until someone answers. She then picks up the phone and speaks as normal.

This means we have to listen to the sound of a ringing phone almost constantly. I hate the sound of an unanswered phone. Is it just me ?

petes

Tusky wrote:

I work in an open plan office and alot of the day is spent on the phone. There is one woman at the other end of the office and she is driving me mad. She dials a number, turns the phone on speaker phone and leaves it ringing until someone answers. She then picks up the phone and talks to him.

This means we have to listen to the sound of a ringing phone almost constantly. I hate the sound of an unanswered phone. Is it just me ?

Wouldn't annoy me. In fact I do it from time to time. Only when I'm ringing some support line or something as you could be on hold for quite a time.

Tusky

petes wrote:

Wouldn't annoy me. In fact I do it from time to time. Only when I'm ringing some support line or something as you could be on hold for quite a time.

If im ringing NTl or something like that I do it too. Its the fact that Im listening to it 8 hours a day that is driving me insane.

petes

Tusky wrote:

If im ringing NTl or something like that I do it to. Its the fact that Im listening to it 8 hours a day that is driving me insane.

If it was every phone call then yes it would annoy me.

smartypants

That would PISSSS me off! :mad:

Pighead

Nope wouldn't annoy Pighead either. But then again I'm famed for my placidity.
If she done the ring ring noise manually from her voicebox then perhaps the annoyance would build. Otherwise its a definite no.
Conclusion: Tuskys getting grouchy in his/her old age.

koneko

Ah yeah definitely. Someone in work here does that too but only occassionally so it's fine, but there is something about that repeated ringing noise, urrghhh.

xzanti

Would annoy me to the point of violence

Tusky

Thank god I am not alone. It just seems very inconsiderate to me. Is it so hard to put the phone to your ear ?

Pighead : I'll grouch YOU, sexually.

AlmightyCushion

Ever so often is grand I suppose but doing that constantly is just irritating. Smash the phone off their face next time they do it and keep doing it until they get the idea.

Pighead

Tusky wrote:

Pighead : I'll grouch YOU, sexually.

Oh baby, you've only gone and got Pigheads ding a ling ringing now. Hope its not annoying you sweetpie..x

azezil

Oh that would be such an annoyance, I'd most likely say nothing till one day I'd just snap and go over and punch her in the face!

YaY bottling up rage ! ^_^

bonkey

Suggest to her to get a headset. That way she can keep her hands free, continue working, not have to hold a ringing phone up to ear, and not interrupt others.

If you need added leverage on this one, point out that for anyone else on a call it will sound very unprofessional to the customer (or whoever) at the other end.

Kinetic^

Some guy in my old office did it, seriously pissed me off. SO ANNOYING!!!!!!!!

Vegeta

the only solution is to go postal.

you know you want to

galah

Hm, it could be my manager...hang on, no, my manager has phone conferences on speaker phone in an open plan office...now THAT'S fun!

Anyways - just send this lady a little email containing instructions on how to use the phone properly - I'm sure she'll appreciate a little training...

Tusky

Vegeta wrote:

the only solution is to go postal.

you know you want to

Or I could just pee on her...

and her family...

while they sleep.

Hows that ?

AlmightyCushion

Tusky wrote:

Or I could just pee on her...

and her family...

while they sleep.

Hows that ?

Hot

Stench Blossoms

My mother does this all the time. Its very annoying. I only ever do it if i'm on hold and i'm busy.

Tusky

Noone is safe, I'll pee on all of you if needs be.

Tar.Aldarion

Ask her to stop doing it, that would be annoying, so annoying.

AlmightyCushion

orla wrote:

My mother does this all the time.

What pee on people? :eek:

Sangre

Just tell her to turn down the volume on the phone while its on speak phone.

John Mason

Tusky wrote:

I work in an open plan office and alot of the day is spent on the phone. There is one woman at the other end of the office and she is driving me mad. She dials a number, turns the phone on speaker phone and leaves it ringing until someone answers. She then picks up the phone and speaks as normal.

This means we have to listen to the sound of a ringing phone almost constantly. I hate the sound of an unanswered phone. Is it just me ?

crap, do you sit near me?

skywalker

Tusky wrote:

Thank god I am not alone. It just seems very inconsiderate to me. Is it so hard to put the phone to your ear ?

Pighead : I'll grouch YOU, sexually.

She could turn down the volume on the speaker too in fairness. Im sure theres a setting there that would let her hear it without the whole call center hearing too.

Wossack

come in early to work and destroy the speaker in her phone

/optional
pee on all her stuff

Siogfinsceal

what a head wreck can never understand why people do that!? Luckily we have head sets in work as we are on phone all day and dont have to listen to that

ntlbell

head f*cking wrecking.

walk down to her and tell her to turn the f*cking thing down or to stop doing it.

if she's hot ask nicley, if not, give her a bang of it!

thelordofcheese

This is nothing a good dose of murder wouldn't solve.

Blush_01

Pee on her! PEE ON HER!!! Or at least her seat... then all day she gets the delicious fragrance of urine... and ends up smelling like an incontinent old lady.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Blush_01 wrote:

Pee on her! PEE ON HER!!! Or at least her seat... then all day she gets the delicious fragrance of urine... and ends up smelling like an incontinent old lady.

Have you considered she might like that and may start using the speaker phone even more?

But seriously, file a sexual harassment case against her. That solves EVERYTHING!

User45701

Tusky wrote:

I work in an open plan office and alot of the day is spent on the phone. There is one woman at the other end of the office and she is driving me mad. She dials a number, turns the phone on speaker phone and leaves it ringing until someone answers. She then picks up the phone and speaks as normal.

This means we have to listen to the sound of a ringing phone almost constantly. I hate the sound of an unanswered phone. Is it just me ?

ah here what happens is people play the answering mechence message through there pc speakers for all to hear...

watna

A girll in my last job used to do this... even though I'd be on the phone to clients right in front of her. I started doing the "I'm on the phone, keep it down arm flap" every time she did it and she got the message. It drove me up the walls though... and it is very bad for the cutomers you are on the phone too.

LoneGunM@n

I always hated that ... next time she does it, you could always aks her not to do it!

If that doesn't work, throw a desk at her ... she might think long & hard about doing it again

galah

Or just walk over and hang up the phone.

Or disable the speaker button somehow...(chewing gum, blue tac etc)...

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Keep a gun in your desk...

Dooom

Bring a hammer with you to work, and the next time she does it calm walk over and smash the phone to pieces.
Then walk back to your desk and act as if nothing happened.

The guy

Come in early and leave this thread on her screen.

patrickolee

orla wrote:

My mother does this all the time. Its very annoying. I only ever do it if i'm on hold and i'm busy.

Your mother shouldn't pee on your family... that is very bad parenting.... and you should know better, doesn't matter how busy you are.

Tusky

The guy wrote:

Come in early and leave this thread on her screen.

Best suggestion yet.

Tar.Aldarion

And she gets boards banned in work. :P

HammerHeadGym

Everything annoys me.

ClareBear

Tusky wrote:

I work in an open plan office and alot of the day is spent on the phone. There is one woman at the other end of the office and she is driving me mad. She dials a number, turns the phone on speaker phone and leaves it ringing until someone answers. She then picks up the phone and speaks as normal.

This means we have to listen to the sound of a ringing phone almost constantly. I hate the sound of an unanswered phone. Is it just me ?

I'm so glad I don't have an office job. People in general annoy me.

bolliwoodi

Tusky wrote:

I work in an open plan office and alot of the day is spent on the phone. There is one woman at the other end of the office and she is driving me mad. She dials a number, turns the phone on speaker phone and leaves it ringing until someone answers. She then picks up the phone and speaks as normal.

This means we have to listen to the sound of a ringing phone almost constantly. I hate the sound of an unanswered phone. Is it just me ?

yes

onechewy

Tusky wrote:

I work in an open plan office and alot of the day is spent on the phone. There is one woman at the other end of the office and she is driving me mad. She dials a number, turns the phone on speaker phone and leaves it ringing until someone answers. She then picks up the phone and speaks as normal.

This means we have to listen to the sound of a ringing phone almost constantly. I hate the sound of an unanswered phone. Is it just me ?

I think I might be able to beat that ^
- There's a guy (elderlyish) that sits right beside me in work, and about 3 foot away from him is a 'confidential' cabinet that apparently requires being kept under lock and key 24/7. About 15 to 20 times a day, this guy gets up and unlocks this cupboard, takes out a file, locks the cupboard, examines the file for say, five minutes or so.. puts the file back in the cupboard, locks it again, and then about another five minutes later repeats the whole process again..

To add to the annoying frequency of this whole unlocking/locking procedure, he has about 20 keys on his key ring, so it's like.. JINGLE JANGLE JINGLE...JINGLE JINGLE JINGLE JINGLE..!!!

It is mind blowingly irritating

Zillah

Wait, why would she do that...? Put the phone on speaker for the ringing part?


Have you thought of saying "Excuse me (stupid bitch face's name), its not really a big deal, but y'know the way you put the phone on speaker sometimes? It's kind of distracting, would you mind not doing it please?"

Ms Personality

Zillah wrote:

Wait, why would she do that...? Put the phone on speaker for the ringing part?

Maybe she's too busy and important to realize that she could actually cradle the ear piece between her ear and shoulder...or maybe she doesn't have a neck, making this difficult. Know what annoys me? People with no necks.

a5y

Tusky wrote:

I work in an open plan office and alot of the day is spent on the phone. There is one woman at the other end of the office and she is driving me mad. She dials a number, turns the phone on speaker phone and leaves it ringing until someone answers. She then picks up the phone and speaks as normal.

This means we have to listen to the sound of a ringing phone almost constantly. I hate the sound of an unanswered phone. Is it just me ?

I am honestly tempted to ask you for the address of your place of work and details as to which office and which phone are hers so I can walk into it after hours dressed in maintainance overalls, examine it, determine it is faulty and repair it by opening the casing and stealing the hands free button for great justice.

Mossy Monk

a5y wrote:

I am honestly tempted to ask you for the address of your place of work and details as to which office and which phone are hers so I can walk into it after hours dressed in maintainance overalls, examine it, determine it is faulty and repair it by opening the casing and stealing the hands free button for great justice.

A hero of modern day society.