Approaching management about disruptive employee behavior

[manderly6]

Originally Posted by Wartrace

I work in cost accounting/cost estimating and I had a deadline for work this Friday. As hard as I tried to ignore this woman talking about her dog and her plans for the weekend she was less than three feet away from me at the time and talking very loudly. When she stops to chat with someone up the hallway 30 feet away I can hear hear as if she is talking at normal conversational levels.

Management KNOWS this is an issue in this office otherwise they wouldn't have spent the money to place a sign in the hallway saying please keep your voice down. Maybe I should just go out in the hallway and ask her to respect the sign?

I am not worried about my job at all. They could replace me of course but it isn't likely and if they did I could find work somewhere else. Frankly it pissed me off that this idiot had nothing better to do than *** while I was trying to get some work done. It is unprofessional.

So you waste time "trying to ignore this woman" when you could just shut your door? Do you have a phobia of being in a closed office?

[thebunny]

Originally Posted by Wartrace

I work in cost accounting/cost estimating and I had a deadline for work this Friday. As hard as I tried to ignore this woman talking about her dog and her plans for the weekend she was less than three feet away from me at the time and talking very loudly. When she stops to chat with someone up the hallway 30 feet away I can hear hear as if she is talking at normal conversational levels.

Management KNOWS this is an issue in this office otherwise they wouldn't have spent the money to place a sign in the hallway saying please keep your voice down. Maybe I should just go out in the hallway and ask her to respect the sign?

I am not worried about my job at all. They could replace me of course but it isn't likely and if they did I could find work somewhere else. Frankly it pissed me off that this idiot had nothing better to do than *** while I was trying to get some work done. It is unprofessional.

So, basically you are annoyed by the woman personally and are letting it effect your work. Not only are you listening to the conversations she has at the door, but also to her conversations 30 feet away. That, my friend, is called obsession.

Get over it. You are annoyed that you have decided you work harder than she does. You have no idea if this is the case or not.

And, the sign probably cost about $1.75...no way did they invest significant company assets. HR probably put up the sign to quiet a whiny employee. Heck, I once had an employee complain about having to walk across the office to sharpen her pencil when a coworker who was a subordinate only had to turn around in her seat. I bought the woman a damn pencil sharpener as it was about 1000 times easier than explaining to the woman why she was insane.

[longnecker]

Originally Posted by DubbleT

Noise reduction headphones?
Can you see her from your desk, so you can use them only when she's there?. Better yet if she can see you put them on, maybe she'll get the message.

I doubt that type of person would take the hint.

[Wartrace]

Originally Posted by thebunny

So, basically you are annoyed by the woman personally and are letting it effect your work. Not only are you listening to the conversations she has at the door, but also to her conversations 30 feet away. That, my friend, is called obsession.

Get over it. You are annoyed that you have decided you work harder than she does. You have no idea if this is the case or not.

And, the sign probably cost about $1.75...no way did they invest significant company assets. HR probably put up the sign to quiet a whiny employee. Heck, I once had an employee complain about having to walk across the office to sharpen her pencil when a coworker who was a subordinate only had to turn around in her seat. I bought the woman a damn pencil sharpener as it was about 1000 times easier than explaining to the woman why she was insane.

She is very loud. I am not obsessed, she talks very loudly. I suspect it is because she is used to talking in the warehouse instead of the office.

I guess I will start closing the office door and if anyone asks why I will say I am distracted by the conversations in the hallway.

[thebunny]

And there you have it.