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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Queen_Dopplepopolis" data-source="post: 2371523" data-attributes="member: 14323">I work with a woman that has no concept of "volume" - despite the fact that her office is 4 doors down from me, she speaks so loudly on her phone that I find it entirely distracting.My job requires that I make a lot of phone calls on specific days.  I need to be very professional as those calls are to senate and house offices.  She's well aware of this and has been asked to quiet down on a number of occasions, yet I still have people on the other end ask "what's going on over there?".  The answer?  Little more than her (non-business related) conversation with her boyfriend about what she's going to do tomorrow night.  It's SO LOUD.  I don't know if it's an inflated sense of self purpose, hearing disorder, or some bizarre malfunction but it drives me CRAZY.Additionally, for the first two months she worked here, she insisted on treating me like a secretary.  Granted, I sit in the lobby area to handle the occasional mail delivery, (we're not a heavy traffic office for anything, usually the only people that go in and out are employees) which could have been misleading a grand total of once b/c I took the time to explain to her that I am *not* her secretary - I work for a man that could be considered her boss doing something completely different than herself.But - day in and day out I would get requests to "change the toner in the printer" or "fix the fax machine."  One day, the fedex man came while I was at lunch (I'm not required to be here when he shows up, not my job) and she went so far as to say, "The FedEx man came while you were off slacking off, Liz.  Maybe you should pay more attention."  At that point, I sort of blew up at her.  I had tried so many times to explain that I have nothing to do with the tasks she was attempting to assign to me, every time she pretended to understand it!Yarg!  The office is a peeve-ful place!</blockquote>

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