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Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: Asharah Date: September 17, 2018, 7:42 pm
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As for breaches of etiquette, at Old Job there was the guy who
worked out in the gym at lunch and hung his wet towel and sweaty
workout clothes over his cube wall to dry.
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We need a vomit emoticon...
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Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: TaurusGirl Date: September 17, 2018, 7:48 pm
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I have an office-mate, Jade, who sits a few cubes down. When she
wants to aska question, does she get up and go ask them? No.
She sits at her desk and starts loudly asking her question,
without addressing anyone. It usually goes like this;
Jade: Hey did you get that email I sent you?
Everyone: *silence as we keep working*
Jade: the one about that file? (Slightly louder)
Everyone: *silence as we keep working*
Jade: ugh! JUDY DID YOU GET THAT EMAIL?
Judy: oh, you were talking to me? Yes, I did, thanks.
Later rinse and repeat five million times per day.
#Post#: 18211--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: Victoria Date: November 5, 2018, 9:54 am
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I had a team leader who really enjoyed his food. Every single
day. The sounds of satisfaction (and chewing) that radiated from
his cubicle at lunch time were enough to where one of the other
members pulled me aside without prompting and said "You just
have to learn to block it out, it's not going to stop."
Apparently our team leader didn't notice that every time he sat
down with something to eat, the classical music coming from my
coworker's speakers was cranked up really high.
#Post#: 19788--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: Songbird Date: November 24, 2018, 10:13 pm
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At a former place of employment, a cube farm, we had two women
who we called Loud and Louder. Whenever either of them was on
the phone, the whole office could hear the conversation. One
time, Liouder was on a personal call with her bank, and we all
heard her account number ...
That was also the office where we had the ESPN Zone. Every
Monday during football season, the group gathered at one woman’s
cube to rehash the weekend’s games.
Current job, former office, also a cube farm. We periodically
participate in Webinars where we have to use our phones for the
audio. We have all been given headphones. Yet the guy in the
next cubebinsisted on using speakerphone.
Current job, current office, open floor plan. My nearest
neighbors are from a different department than I am. They talk
all day long. Apparently I’m not the only one who is bothered
by their incessant conversation, because I overheard their
supervisor telling them that they need to tone it down because
someone complained. I didn’t complain.
My workstation faces another employee, but there’s no one
sitting behind me. Instead I have an office wall behind me.
More than once I’ve come into work on a rainy day to find open
umbrellas against the wall.
I make a lot of phone calls that require confidentiality, so I
need to use a conference room. I’ve had to hunt for an empty
room because a lot of people are using the conference rooms to
make personal calls on their cell phones, I understand the need
for privacy, of course, but keep it brief,
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Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: browzer11 Date: November 24, 2018, 11:12 pm
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"As for breaches of etiquette, at Old Job there was the guy who
worked out in the gym at lunch and hung his wet towel and sweaty
workout clothes over his cube wall to dry."
In what Bizarro alternate universe does Management not stop this
immediately? That's unbelievable.
#Post#: 19876--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: HenrysMom Date: November 26, 2018, 1:28 am
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You all just reminded me of two of my former cube farm
neighbors: the gulp-snort guy and the narcolepsy lady.
Gulp-snort guy was overall a nice man, but every few seconds,
he’d loudly do a “gulp-snort-gurgle” thing with his throat.
Narcolepsy lady was asleep as much as she was awake. I don’t
know if she actually had narcolepsy, but she claimed it was some
sort of disability. The sleeping didn’t bother me as much as
her snoring - it was as loud as gulp-snort guy and just as
constant. Their cubicles were next to each other, so the
cacophony went on all day long. I tried going to my boss
discreetly with my cube mates, but that blew up spectacularly in
our faces, resulting in a war between word processing and
accounting that lasted until HQ’s move to Texas.
#Post#: 19917--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: RubyCat Date: November 26, 2018, 9:31 am
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In the finance department, Natalie was an accounts payable
clerk. Todd was a financial analyst. Natalie used to play music
on a radio as she processed payments, it wasn't too loud and it
didn't bother me. Todd, however, was working on some heavy duty
number crunching and found it distracting. He asked Natalie,
repeatedly, to turn off the radio. She thought he was being
unreasonable but after a few heated discussion between the two,
she finally switched over to earphones. And then she started
singing along - off key - to music that only she could hear.
::) That was distracting to all of us.
#Post#: 25549--------------------------------------------------
Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: ladameestmorte Date: February 8, 2019, 4:31 pm
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I had a paralegal once who gave herself a pedicure right there
in her cube. She used a Pedi-Egg and, I am told by another
paralegal, emptied it into her trash can.
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Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: wonderfullyanonymous Date: February 11, 2019, 8:49 am
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We don't have cubes, as we are cashiers, but there are still the
problem children.
The one who hits the keys on the register as though she is
angry. I'm surprised she hasn't broken one yet.
The ones who chew their gum with their mouths open, crack it, or
chew it as though it's their last meal.
The girls who can't talk without whining.
With my mouth, I can give a sailor lessons, but there is a time
and place, but there are coworkers who can't form a sentence
without using the F-bomb, or the C-bomb (I don't even use this
one). Sometimes I wonder how they made it through an interview
with out swearing.
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Re: Cubes Open Office land - what breaches of etiquette have you
seen?
By: Rose Red Date: February 11, 2019, 9:23 am
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Open offices become fair game for food. I hate putting out
treats because other departments help themselves. An email from
management even went out informing everyone that they need to
ask before taking other department's treats since it's most
likely not enough for the entire building, but many people
ignore it. Some people have no shame when it comes to food.
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