Name some annoying habits of the co-workers that you sit next to (Typing too hard, talks too much, pen tapping, leg shaking, etc). How do you mention that it's driving you insane without being rude?

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Talking and laughing loudly constantly, the kind that goes right through your headphones.

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I’ll get you headphones for Christmas.
Thanks for being a good sport.

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Person next to me really likes to hum...haven’t said anything yet but I either go sit somewhere else or put headphones in lol don’t want to kill people’s joy

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Same!

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This is what the Open Office wants, for us to hate each other. Not having our privacy or dignity taken away, no thats modern, that’s “collaborative,” no, sitting elbow to elbow at one desk is fine....it’s the loud typing—the human behavior that’s driving us crazy and making us sound like assholes.

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The transition to open office plan definitely has made people less friendly. Survival mechanism, i think. Building a thicker personal wall to block out all the distraction.

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Anyone who has keyboard clicks enabled should have their phone taken away from them

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My favorite sound to hear in the bathroom.

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TBH, I find any habit annoying if I don’t like that coworker 😂

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I chew ice and I bet my seat mates hate it

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Sorry bruh. Mama didn’t breastfeed me

Someone who leaves their phone on vibrate and it sits on the table.. And it goes off for every email and text on the minute

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Sit near a female co-worker that eats dry raisin bran, bare handed, out of the box every afternoon like a goddamn chimp.

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Cracking knuckles. Women and men in their 20s seem to do it often in our office for some odd reason.

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No deodorant

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Omg I sat Next to a woman at my last job who I swore took one shower a week. Her BO would get stronger and stronger every day that by Friday I’d have to work in the kitchen all day because I can’t stand to sit next to her.

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Yeah people who have loud and annoying alert tones for texts and emails.

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Vocal creak.
I’ve mentioned, “Hey, you sound like Kim Kardashian, I can barely understand you.” It works for about five minutes then it comes back.

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Yeah this one’s a you problem bud

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Why choose to be bothered?

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Beatboxing along to the music in their headphones. Tapping their big feet loudly to the rhythm. Making loud old man grunts as they stretch and clear their throat.

Love working with this person but I’ve never heard so much noise from one human in my life.

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Ice crunchers. I stare at them until they are done.

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That’s unnecessarily passive aggressive, they can’t read your mind.

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I used to sit next to a guy, back in the day we sat in those old-school things called “cubicles”, that would clip his nails. If that occurred in the open office environment in which I now work, I would have likely murdered him.

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Coughing, hacking away- clearly too sick to be at work but still comes in and infects everyone else

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Noise cancelling 🎧 saves lives.

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WHISTLING
PLEASE STOP WHISTLING

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Clipping toes and fingernails and taking their shoes off

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GROSS

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