[OT] Help with annoying co-worker (or...amuse me before I go insane)
- Thread starter Djeta Thernadier
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I think you should keep a live journal based on her conversation.
Send E-mails company wide detailing her conversation be like a court stenographer and just type it up. if she spends time talking nothing wrong with you spending time to type it up. Maybe she will shut up then. and it would be fun like doing a campaign log/story hour just add your own details, in italics of course, so you wouldn't be accused of adding anything or lieing.
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Send E-mails company wide detailing her conversation be like a court stenographer and just type it up. if she spends time talking nothing wrong with you spending time to type it up. Maybe she will shut up then. and it would be fun like doing a campaign log/story hour just add your own details, in italics of course, so you wouldn't be accused of adding anything or lieing.
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robaustin
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Best suggestion of all: Tape record the co worker. Tape a LOT. Keep taping. Put the tape recorder in your boss' office when they step out to go to the copier or something. MAke sure it's in a place where they cannot find it easily. After a few minutes they'll go nuts, and get the point.
If they don't - then you'll be able to take the tape recording to someone above your boss, and have actual proof, not only of the phone calls, but of what she's saying on the calls, and how loud she is. Take it to HR if your boss or no one else will do anything. You do NOT have to tolerate that.
--*Rob
If they don't - then you'll be able to take the tape recording to someone above your boss, and have actual proof, not only of the phone calls, but of what she's saying on the calls, and how loud she is. Take it to HR if your boss or no one else will do anything. You do NOT have to tolerate that.
--*Rob
schporto
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First suggestion - fire with fire. Use your local dwarven or half-ord bard. Substitute any german heavy heavy HEAVY metal band.
Second suggestion - Be the nudge. Metronomes are an insidious invention. Great for keeping the beat. But just tick tocking away. tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock. Chineese water torture.
Third suggestion - The tape recorder method above. Very effective.
Fourth suggestion - If she's barking that loudly about it you can too. Make sure she hears you yapping to someone else about her secret love life or medical problems. Get a few details wrong.
Second suggestion - Be the nudge. Metronomes are an insidious invention. Great for keeping the beat. But just tick tocking away. tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock. Chineese water torture.
Third suggestion - The tape recorder method above. Very effective.
Fourth suggestion - If she's barking that loudly about it you can too. Make sure she hears you yapping to someone else about her secret love life or medical problems. Get a few details wrong.
Carl Stanford
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A DnD solution to your problem? Simple.....
Kill her and take her stuff!
Kill her and take her stuff!
Djeta Thernadier
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You guys & gals are so awesome. This completely makes it all better. All of these suggestions had me smiling 
Well....I talked to our boss again, and she told the yapper that if she MUST make a personal call that she must go into a seperate room (which is what I, and most other sane people do when we have to make a brief personal phone call to a doctor, family memeber etc...because normal people don't want random co-workers hearing their personal business)
So we'll see how that goes.
If not, I like the tape recorder idea...
I like the tape recorder idea alot. I also enjoy the joining her conversations idea.
I just might do that. I have to brush up on my teen hip hop slang first though. I don't want to sound all Tone-Loc & Snoop Dog in a 50 Cent & Jay Z world...
~S
Well....I talked to our boss again, and she told the yapper that if she MUST make a personal call that she must go into a seperate room (which is what I, and most other sane people do when we have to make a brief personal phone call to a doctor, family memeber etc...because normal people don't want random co-workers hearing their personal business)
So we'll see how that goes.
If not, I like the tape recorder idea...
I like the tape recorder idea alot. I also enjoy the joining her conversations idea.
I just might do that. I have to brush up on my teen hip hop slang first though. I don't want to sound all Tone-Loc & Snoop Dog in a 50 Cent & Jay Z world...
~S
Thresher
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On slightly less than lethal solutions your at a slight disadvantage, mostly becuase of proximity. It sounds like you know quite a bit about the yapper so maybe its time to take notes on what she HATES, and then begin implementing them in subtle ways.
A nasty little trick favoured by evil admins everywhere, it to go into the contacts list in Outlook and change a lot of those addresses to a company wide spam by hiding the destination behind what the initial title says. Nothing like a company wide email full of personal details for true humiliation...
Change the biro inks to different colours, this will make baby jesus cry if you do it often enough.
Coat the monitor in a light smear of vasoline, just enough so its good and blurry. This is damn near impossible to scrub clean and will cause unessary eye strain and pain.
Hide a sardine in the mouthpiece of the phone, he'll fester there nicely over a weekend if you put him in there on friday arvo. The trick to sardine infestation is not to use a lot of sardine, just a small chunk.
Dust the mouseball in graphite grease, possibly the most evil substance to get out of everything, including skin.
If she takes off her shoes, throw in a bit of Iron oxide powder in there, brickies use it in cement. The nice thing about this is that it eventually creeps up over the skin through the day and gives it a nice shade of crappy orange-red.
Of course, how you do this is up to you.
A nasty little trick favoured by evil admins everywhere, it to go into the contacts list in Outlook and change a lot of those addresses to a company wide spam by hiding the destination behind what the initial title says. Nothing like a company wide email full of personal details for true humiliation...
Change the biro inks to different colours, this will make baby jesus cry if you do it often enough.
Coat the monitor in a light smear of vasoline, just enough so its good and blurry. This is damn near impossible to scrub clean and will cause unessary eye strain and pain.
Hide a sardine in the mouthpiece of the phone, he'll fester there nicely over a weekend if you put him in there on friday arvo. The trick to sardine infestation is not to use a lot of sardine, just a small chunk.
Dust the mouseball in graphite grease, possibly the most evil substance to get out of everything, including skin.
If she takes off her shoes, throw in a bit of Iron oxide powder in there, brickies use it in cement. The nice thing about this is that it eventually creeps up over the skin through the day and gives it a nice shade of crappy orange-red.
Of course, how you do this is up to you.
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TheMilitantOne
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You should take her to lunch. Offer her a 40 full of black lotus extract.Djeta Thernadier said:
It always works for me.
TheMilitantOne
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Re: Re: [OT] Help with annoying co-worker (or...amuse me before I go insane)
Ever since I noticed that my office has the same dimensions as a gelatinous cube, I've often pondered the possibilities. "Today we've placed a gelatinous cube in Steven's office. Let's see if he notices!"
Alternatively, simply two words: "gelatinous cubicle"TheMilitantOne said:
Ever since I noticed that my office has the same dimensions as a gelatinous cube, I've often pondered the possibilities. "Today we've placed a gelatinous cube in Steven's office. Let's see if he notices!"
