MarcO Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 My co-worker - who sits right next to me - is a wonderful person and I love her but she hums, vigorously! I find myself wanting to kill either myself or her, I'm not sure who yet.We have the radio on but she's humming her own semi-tune. It is actually more like two-tone grunting and monosyllabic utterances, not even a tune.Her humming is distracting me from the voices in my head.Sometimes I think I would like to be launched into a permanent orbit around the earth, happy and alone.I'm not a people person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomFoolery Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 I'll bet if you tell her about the voices in your head you'll find you get a lot of space around the office... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 I feel like I have it worst. Mine verbalizes EVERYTHING he is doing. Pick any mindless task, walk through the steps in your head to completion. Imagine saying it aloud. Fuck, I want to kill him when that is going on. Right now he is eating like my cat. Head down, nothing fazes him. Makes little cat-like noises too. I might go scratch his lower back so he gives me that 'Iso happy' face.I cant imagine what he hates about me. It must make him completely insane. That and the smell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 i'm a hummer.. i wonder if my coworkers want to kill me. i sing a lot too.. one of them always tells me she loves it when i sing.. i hear a hint of sarcasm in her voice though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 the woman beside me hums, grunts, talks loudly to colleagues who sit 30 feet away from her and makes this tea that smells exactly like a campfireshe also uses a kettle in her cubicle despite knowing full-well that it's a fire hazardmind bogglingAND if that's not enough last week she called up the Helpdesk to complain that her new and expensive keyboard wasn't working. 10 mintues of conversation later she tells them, "Oh yes I spilled water on it yesterday afternoon, do you think that might be why it's not working?"I think she has an MA in some sort of science field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 re: Humming. I know of only one viable solution: counter it with some of the "gruntier" stuff by Keith Jarrett.Aloha,Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booche Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 I am fully expecting my coworker to start licking the back of his hand and rub it into his scalp. A nap will soon prevail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 holy fack it's bad in here today. someone just heated up some kinda fish and i sit right near the microwaveconstruction guys banging and crashing away, erecting some walls or something, also right nearbymy slip show (11-11-05) isn't quite loud enough to drown it all out. too bad i don't have any southern rock, maybe a band that's comparable to the allman bros to listen to. i'm sure that would do the trick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 you know how microwaves have speed buttons like "popcorn", "frozen pizza", etc.. ours has a "chicken pieces" button.. what the hell does "chicken pieces" mean? i feel gross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 not so much humming but sometimes the humming, but i absolutely cannot stand working with who i work with in the trace dept, she drives me INSANE with the chatter and the stupid Qs constantlytoday i told her to fuck off, and she hasnt said a thing again, so hopefully i found the golden ticket per saywhy dont you guys try out a good old under-the-breath FUCK OFF i mean SHIT! seriously! just fuck off and leave me be damnit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdy Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 office tension sucks. i make it my policy to avoid it at all costs, no matter how much of the crap i have to internalize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Fuck, our office has been infiltrated by 3 Christmas carol devices -- a couple of snowmen and a cat. And apparently it's big laughs to set one off outside someone's cubicle and then make a dash for it. I got 6 weeks of this shit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Fuck, our office has been infiltrated by 3 Christmas carol devices -- a couple of snowmen and a cat. And apparently it's big laughs to set one off outside someone's cubicle and then make a dash for it. I got 6 weeks of this shit!!tell bouche to grow up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 Fuck' date=' our office has been infiltrated by 3 Christmas carol devices -- a couple of snowmen and a cat. And apparently it's big laughs to set one off outside someone's cubicle and then make a dash for it. I got 6 weeks of this shit!![/quote']tell bouche to grow upNo, Mike has been good to me today. He brought me leftovers for lunch! I think I want to marry him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 (edited) I now have the image of ollie in a '70s-style wide-lapel pastel-coloured tuxedo, with bouche beside him in a white dress, holding a bouqet of flowers, but with a strangely bulging midsection, standing at an altar...Edit to add: And, of course, they're both humming either The Wedding March, or The Chicken Dance...Aloha,Brad Edited November 16, 2005 by Guest Add some on-topic-ness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 (edited) can someone please photoshop bradm's fantasy into reality?thank you.edit to add: this post has made me laugh so hard, and very thankful that i work for the most part, by myself. i only have to deal with speaking broken english to someone when they're here. but if they're here all day, i go home thinking in broken english. Edited November 16, 2005 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 this thread is cracking me up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted November 16, 2005 Report Share Posted November 16, 2005 I now have the image of ollie in a '70s-style wide-lapel pastel-coloured tuxedo, with bouche beside him in a white dress, holding a bouqet of flowers, but with a strangely bulging midsection, standing at an altar...Thanks for putting bouche in the dress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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