SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUTUP STFU!!!!!!!!
My receptionist needs to shut the fuck up before I completely flip out and start screaming and flopping around on the floor. I knew that sharing an office with her would be dangerous territory, because of her penchant for talking. I did everything I could think of. I put us at opposite ends of a big office and I got some office dividers to separate my office area.
It's useless. She keeps talking. Apparently, knowing that I am in the same room and can hear her is enough to keep her talking, even when I ignore her. Within two days I've already been reduced to complete and utter rudeness. In the last two hours I haven't said one word to her, not to acknowledge anything she's said, nor to answer any of her questions or concerns. And she's still talking.
She used to complain endlessly about how her office doesn't have a window. On and on and on. I sympathized. I've been in situations where I didn't have a window and yea verily, it sucked. During our temporary move, however, she and I are sharing an office with a window. No...several windows. She has her own window, but she still keeps coming around my divider and my pile of Intrusion Obstacles™, to look out MY window.
Worse, now that she has a fucking window, all she's done all morning is complain about how cold the office is. Oh, she's freezing. Oh, her hands are like ice. Finally, I said the only thing I've said all morning: "Look, that's the price of having a window. They're single pane, they have gaps all around them, so they leak cold air. In the winter, my office is always about ten degrees colder than your office. That's the advantage of having one of the interior offices."
She's still complaining in her awful northeast Kansas nasally flat voice. Serenity NOW!
ETA: And hey, so much for me being a fucking ray of sunshine.
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My receptionist, though, is talking to me, expecting me to listen. And I can't do that shit.
Much as I love my mother in law - it sounds like she's taken up residence in your office!
LOLOLOL! Yes, I'm laughing at your pain. Man, that would drive me bonkers. Total bonkers. And I'm sure I would have cracked and started being rude on the first day.
At least today I'm snapping at people via email. Not sure if that's any better. My patience meter is on empty at the moment. I started a rant about my arch nemesis Douchebag three times but I deleted each post before I finished. He was being all whiney and I had to stomp that out. He backed up fast when he realized I was not going to be nice and put up with his crap. Gah.
There must be frustration in the air today.
We have a couple of loud talkers. I regularly wear in-the-ear-phones. The Mac Pro will only let me go up to a certain level and that is NOT enough to drown them out but it can cover enough that with mental obstructions one can at least not follow what they are saying. Good luck!
My kid sister talks like this. Natter natter natter, she literally narrates everything she's doing as she's doing it. After she did this for 10 minutes straight in the back seat on the way to my sister's at Christmas, she had the nerve to bitch "Who are you talking to?" at my mother who made a one-sentence observation about something different in the front seat. So I lit into her.
I'm sure co-worker won't register your rudeness. She just needs to be told flat out, "I have to concentrate on my work, you cannot talk to me except in X circumstance."
I sometimes complain about working from home all the time, but that's one thing I don't miss about an office setting.
It usually is. I'm happy that program offers joy to people but they're the most rabid lot of folks I've met. Sports fans are less zany and they paint their faces. ;p
Half the people in this room where I work are similar to your receptionist. (There are about 50 people in this room.) So many people whining and complaining about one thing or another --- they're never happen, and they never keep it to themselves.
&:o(
One of the ladies that drives me the craziest here is the one who complains about how loud everyone is talking, and all you can hear is HER complaining about the other people's loudness...
If I had to put money on whether it's going to be you or the receptionist who wins in the end though, my money's on you.
I've called my sister to find out one little thing sometimes and it's ten minutes into the monologue before I get a chance to go forth and ask. And my mom was like that. I can shut down at the drop of a don't-you-think-so. You have my sympathy.
LOL @ duct tape solution
Daily use of duct tape might also wax her mustache for her... I'm just guessing here.