Tuesday, February 15, 2005

The Beast Of My Cubicle Farm

Do you know exactly how annoying people can be in an office setting? I'm talking about the activities of your fellow cube-dwellers that make you want to throw a brick over the divider or simply pound on your desk in frustration? I'm sure some of you can relate.

There is a lady that sits a few cubes away from me who annoys me nearly to the point of no return. It wouldn't be so bad if she stayed in her cube, but she doesn't. Oh no. She spends a large majority of her time in the cubicle directly next to me, supposedly working with a fellow employee on a project. In all actuality, she mainly spends the time griping, whining, moaning and belittling the other people she works with. What she doesn't seem to realize is that her voice could be heard from across the Savvis Center during a Nine Inch Nails concert. Add to the sheer volume of her voice the fact that she mumbles and slurs all of her words together. I swear she must only open her mouth a millimeter and then create the rest of the supposed pronunciations with either her tongue or cheeks.

As if her conversation weren't depressing enough, and her lack of communication skills weren't totally bewildering, she also likes to dress as if she just woke up and decided to head out to Walmart. Now, don't get me wrong, I love wearing sweatpants and a long sleeve t-shirt to go shopping in. I will even admit that I don't always dress in totally matching pants and shirt combinations, but that's a far cry from this lady's embarrassing wardrobe. It's hard to take anything seriously that is coming from a woman who only complains at the top of her garbled voice while wearing a shirt that is partially untucked into her utterly non-flattering and non-matching sweatpants.

You know what I mean?

"Corporate accounts payable, just a moment... Corporate accounts payable, just a moment..."

Where's the tranquilizer darts when you need them?

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