So for some reason, I am a little irritable today. At work I work on a floor with tons of cubicles. The good thing is that mine is in the corner near the windows (though I don’t have a window view). However, there is a new table there (a former small conference room table), so people come over during the day and sit there usually without disturbing me. However sometimes, people use that area to talk on their cell phones to whomever. And the company I work for has a lot of older people so they are all “yelling” at the phone while talking on it.
Then I have the area printer beside me, but only three of us use that printer: my boss, my colleague, and myself. My colleague and I have very little printing except when our boss wants us to print some things off for him. However, he on a daily basis will printer reams of paper. He prints every email he receives (and sends for that matter!). He prints every attachment, and when working on a PowerPoint, he prints it out three or four times in a morning or afternoon. It’s not bad except that it is right behind me and drives me nuts. Furthermore, I do some recording for various reasons whether it is web conferencing, podcasting, or whatever (which I use a port-a-booth which allows me to talk at a normal level and get great recordings). So whenever there is printing, I cannot record. So I could go days without recording just praying for my boss to be out of the office if only for a couple of hours.
Then my colleague is an older gentleman and after lunch almost every day, he comes back and smacks his lips as if he is trying to suck something out from between his teeth. It’s over and over again and no level of headphones or music can stop my ears from hearing that sound. Trust me, I’ve tried it! Sometimes it gets so bad, that I just go to the bathroom, take a ride on the elevators, walk to my car and back, or something just to get away.
So today, all three of these were happening at the same time this morning! I just wanted to stand up and yell to the guy on the cell phone to SHUT UP, then turn off the printer so my boss couldn’t print anything else (went through 2 reams this morning!), and then dump a bucket of water on my colleague. Instead, I went to YouTube and watched Brian Regan. He actually made me laugh so hard that I was crying and had to stop listening. Especially funny were his talks on UPS (probably because I worked for them) and Food. You can watch the entire stand up routine by starting here. Sometimes you just need to laugh.
UPS
Food and Labels
Phones and Cords
Visiting the Doctor
Others I liked included:
Emergency Room
Refrigerator
Eye Doctor
Flying
Names
Are You Dating Anyone?
