its my lunch hour and i'm wearing giant headphones

dunkman

and yet people in my office still sit behind their desks and say things to me. why? every time they speak i have to press pause and remove the headphones.... and all they are telling meis stuff like what channel such and such a movie is on tonight... or that such and such a footballer has a pet dog.

its annoying...

ZiggyStar

I own a business and don't agree with my employees wearing headphones at work at all.

But if you're just going to talk about meaningless shit, what's the point in interrupting a person with headphones on? That would annoy me too.

threefish10

if i saw someone wearing headphones, i'd come up and just say random shit to piss them off.


but i'm an arsehole.

Phantom Pain

Ignore them and turn up the music

dunkman

ZiggyStar wrote:

I own a business and don't agree with my employees wearing headphones at work at all.

But if you're just going to talk about meaningless shit, what's the point in interrupting a person with headphones on? That would annoy me too.

you dont agree with it even though its on my lunch hour (for which i am unpaid)

but aye... its annoying... even if it was meaningful shit.. like he just discovered some rare fossil under his armpit or something, tell me about it after i've finished listening to my music!!! :mad:

threefish10

dunkman wrote:

you dont agree with it even though its on my lunch hour (for which i am unpaid)

yeah, but Ziggy removed all the computers in the office and gave her staff typewriters cause she was sick of them checking their personal email during work time.


now there is only one computer in the office and if someone need to use it Ziggy watches over their shoulder.


she's a hard boss.

dunkman

Phantom Pain wrote:

Ignore them and turn up the music

yeah i should have done... just seemed ruder than the initial act of interrupting me.

ok the first time is understandable, he didnt see me with them on or something.. but after the sixth time of me going *makes a big deal of removing headphones* "ehhh what was that again?!" and then him having to repeat it... surely you'd realise.. 'oh he's listening to music... i'll tell him later'

Jennytree

I would like a pair of those rockin' Skull Candy headphones

ZiggyStar

dunkman wrote:

you dont agree with it even though its on my lunch hour (for which i am unpaid)

but aye... its annoying... even if it was meaningful shit.. like he just discovered some rare fossil under his armpit or something, tell me about it after i've finished listening to my music!!! :mad:

My apologies....I did not see that you were on your lunch hour. I have guests over for dinner and was quickly skimming the forums. Do whatever you want if it's your lunch hour.

Yes, people at work seem to have the need to tell you HEAPS of boring shit....at my last place of employment, I often felt really bad for the husbands of the secretaries I worked with etc. BORING!!!!!

dunkman

ZiggyStar wrote:

Yes, people at work seem to have the need to tell you HEAPS of boring shit....at my last place of employment, I often felt really bad for the husbands of the secretaries I worked with etc. BORING!!!!!

people who talk about work at home are up there with serial killers in my opinion... unless its a funny story dont bother me with it... my wife has learned over the years i suppose... i bet if i were to ask her what i did for a living she'd struggle to tell me... i forget i even have a job come 5.00pm

ZiggyStar

dunkman wrote:

yeah i should have done... just seemed ruder than the initial act of interrupting me.

ok the first time is understandable, he didnt see me with them on or something.. but after the sixth time of me going *makes a big deal of removing headphones* "ehhh what was that again?!" and then him having to repeat it... surely you'd realise.. 'oh he's listening to music... i'll tell him later'

THAT would be frigging annoying.....I totally agree.....

ZiggyStar

dunkman wrote:

unless its a funny story dont bother me with it...

EXACTLY!!! If it's not a decent story with a purpose....fuck off!

"Michael and I went for dinner last night at XYZ Restaurant"

"Oh, that would have been nice"

"Yeah" ... looks at me with open eyes as if I will continue conversation about nothing important

I wait for punch line or significant story about dinner ....realise punch line/story not coming....

Walk off...

Gossard_Is_God

Id love to be able to say " I pissed Dunkman off"

dunkman

Gossard_Is_God wrote:

Id love to be able to say " I pissed Dunkman off"

i get pissed off very easily and all the time though.

i got pissed off just buying my lunch as this old woman in front of me took about 4 hours to go through her purse looking for the exact money required to buy a pint of milk... i thought about ramming that milk carton so far up her arse she'd have to milk her own boobs... but instead i just seethed away

bus drivers fuck me off... driving on wrong side of roads when i clearly have right of way..

oh i could go on.

eyedclaar

dunkman wrote:

people who talk about work at home are up there with serial killers in my opinion... unless its a funny story dont bother me with it... my wife has learned over the years i suppose... i bet if i were to ask her what i did for a living she'd struggle to tell me... i forget i even have a job come 5.00pm

Spot on, mate (isn't that what you Scots say?). Sometimes my wife just flat out asks me what I do at work because I never talk about it.

Jeremy1012

dunkman wrote:

and yet people in my office still sit behind their desks and say things to me. why? every time they speak i have to press pause and remove the headphones.... and all they are telling meis stuff like what channel such and such a movie is on tonight... or that such and such a footballer has a pet dog.

its annoying...

My brother does this all the time. One day I'm going to stab him and he'll wish he left me alone.

I jest. I'll just beat him.

vital5

ZiggyStar wrote:

I own a business and don't agree with my employees wearing headphones at work at all.

But if you're just going to talk about meaningless shit, what's the point in interrupting a person with headphones on? That would annoy me too.

what if they were listening to a book?

mookie9999

ZiggyStar wrote:

I own a business and don't agree with my employees wearing headphones at work at all.

But if you're just going to talk about meaningless shit, what's the point in interrupting a person with headphones on? That would annoy me too.

I wish my employees would wear headphones. Maybe it would stop them from approaching me with stupid ass questions every couple of minutes!

dawng

I hate it when people do that to me! I've gone as far as pinning a note to my back that says "DO NOT DISTURB". And then I won't take off my headphones, I just glare at them and point to my sign until they go away. Dumb ass people, ignoring my do not disturb sign!

And as far as listening to music w/ headphones while at work - we encourage it here. We've found that people work better when they are not listening to all the other crap going on in the cubicle environment. It helps that our CEO is a musician...and most of the people that work here are as well. Everything from guitar to opera singer to bagpipes

roar

i wish more people would wear headphones at work so i don't have to listen to clips of the daily show all...day...long.

petrocs

LOL...I deal with the same thing all day long...I take them off and someone says, "Ummm you're going to go deaf listening to that so loud" SHUT UP ASSCLOWN!

jamie uk

dunkman wrote:

... i forget i even have a job come 5.00pm

hey, I've been here during the day...it's way before 5pm you forget about work
I have my ear buds, I sometimes only stick one in if there's someone interesting next to me, if they both go in it either means there's a crashing bore arrived next to me to work.....or there's a killer song come on that requires my full attention...something off Powerage or the like :D

illegal pants

ughhh i get that too..


i like to pretend it's loud and i can't hear them

failedpersephone

I give a stink eye and tap my headphones.

but i don't wear them anymore - we have music out loud...so I have to switch off with two others...both of whom have shit ears.

JaneNY

If you're on lunch break you don't have to talk to them. Just act like you can't hear them. Or better yet, get noise-canceling ones and then maybe you really won't be able to hear them. Who needs all that blabbing when you're on break?

pearljamjen

This is why I don't stay in the office during my lunch hour. No matter WHERE I've worked, if I'm sitting with headphones and reading a book or whatever people will always come up to me and say "Sorry to bother you during your lunch but you get me the file on xyz?" And I'm thinking are you REALLY sorry? :rolleyes: So now I always leave the office.

facepollution

There's one guy at my work who HAS to ask me what I'm eating every time he sees me at lunch, it irritates the living fuck out of me! He just can't help but make some random inane comment. The other day I was browsing these forums on my phone and he made the comment quite loudly in front of a load of people "oh are you watching porn on your phone again?", my reply was "yeah I'm watching your mum's latest, and I gotta say it's probably about time she retired", shut him up instantly !

iluvcats

facepollution wrote:

There's one guy at my work who HAS to ask me what I'm eating every time he sees me at lunch, it irritates the living fuck out of me! He just can't help but make some random inane comment. The other day I was browsing these forums on my phone and he made the comment quite loudly in front of a load of people "oh are you watching porn on your phone again?", my reply was "yeah I'm watching your mum's latest, and I gotta say it's probably about time she retired", shut him up instantly !

lol
no, next time saying you are watching HIS latest porno production
and that he performed quite well...

Music For Rhinos

If it's your lunch hour, can't you go outside and find a chill spot to listen to your music without being interrupted? Or go in your car, or leave and drive somewhere?

If my co-workers were bothering me like that, that's what I would do.

Stelly

pearljamjen wrote:

This is why I don't stay in the office during my lunch hour. No matter WHERE I've worked, if I'm sitting with headphones and reading a book or whatever people will always come up to me and say "Sorry to bother you during your lunch but you get me the file on xyz?" And I'm thinking are you REALLY sorry? :rolleyes: So now I always leave the office.

Bingo. If you're sitting at your desk, you are considered "working." Right or wrong, that's how it is! You want peace and quiet? Leave the scene...

TrixieCat

Next time do this:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2194/2098193346_5deb962098.jpg?v=0