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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hijinks" data-source="post: 2538608" data-attributes="member: 31094">I have a new rudeness story.Myself and the lady that sits next to me find it very hard to work sometimes because we sit in the middle of a thoroughfare on our floor, and nearby is where the accounting people all stand around and BS and talk loudly.  So we put up signs (with our supervisor's permission of course) that say "Quiet please!  Thank you!"  And we both wear headphones and play music so we can try to focus on our work.This one woman walked over and stood right between our desks and said "La la la la!" really loudly.  Then when we looked at her, she said "Oh I saw your quiet sign and had to make myself known."  I just sort of smiled vaguely and tried to refocus on my work.  Then she said something that I didn't hear because of my music, so I turned off the music and took off my headphones and said "I'm sorry, what?" to which she replied "you're not laughing" (at her joke, I assume).Um, the "quiet" sign is there for a REASON, lady!  You've now distracted me from my work twice, and not for work related crap  either!  Go AWAY!  GAWD!  And this is a supervisor of our department - you'd think she'd want us to be able to work.As for the looting in New Orleans and elsewhere, and the people who are shooting guns and having riots, they make me ashamed to be an American.  Be scared, be worried about your home and property, be upset because of an injury, take food that's lying around rotting ...but there's no reason to riot, and there's no reason to steal crap you don't need.I feel horrible for the people down south, but when they're on the television screaming and yelling about some stupid crap that doesn't matter, when people are trying to help them and they're too busy stealing and beating each other up, then I tend to not feel so bad.</blockquote>

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