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We've had a re-organisation at work, it is looking like permafix (i.e. no new project work) for your humble correspondant, so I need to decide whether to bitch about until something is done it or find a new job.
We've moved into a room* with the normals (i.e. non-tech people). It turns out non-tech people like the following :
- Radio 1. Seemingly this is populated by Sarah Cox and Richards Bacon. Whoever they are, they are a pair of sunshines, a rare example of something not being improved by Bacon.
- Murder She wrote on the TV. No noise thankfully understand but a distraction nonetheless. There are currently such acting luminaries as Tom Bosley, The Nazi Leader out of "The Blues Brothers" and the cream of the mid-eighties mediocre middle-of-the-road USian acting crop in my line of sight
Been in the office for two hours, feel like drilling my own head in the manner of the chap in the film Pi.
* Seriously, the room is bright orange with a polished aluminium ceiling, it looks pretty much what I expect of a knocking-shop to look like but without the delightful young semi-clad ladies
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Keith Barrow wrote: Richards Bacon
Can't you just eat his bacon and be happy?
As a solution, I suggest a small accident with a 5lb lump hammer and a scowl.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: Can't you just eat his bacon
Keith Barrow wrote: Sarah Cox
It would definitely be better than eating her C... oh, nevermind... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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You need noise cancelling headphones with a decent sound track plus large quantities of gin. Then tell the norms what you think of Radi-fecking-o Fecking OneFeck.
After that have a celebratory gin; you know you want to.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Ahhh, the bosses have though of that. 50% of the reasoning for the re-shuffle is to improve communication between (what were) teams, so they are going to ban headphones. Out my cold dead fingers.
Gin is sounding good.
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No headphones is only acceptable if you have a suitable working environment. QED Hammer the TV and power drill the radio. Sorted.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Well, then start communicating until they tell the boss they don't want to communicate anymore.
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Noice-cancelling headphones? That's like admitting it's your problem, and they are right.
MSDN podcasts. at 90dB.
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peterchen wrote: MSDN podcasts. at 90dB.
I call that the "Cerwin-Vega Solution"
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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Keith Barrow wrote: the room is bright orange
It is not appropriate to publicly dislike orange on CodeProject. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Get a note from your GP. Alternatively you could just tell your boss that you find it very difficult to concentrate with these distractions, so your work is suffering. As a last resort call JSOP.
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At one point start repeating "They won't shut up" over and over with ever increasing volume.
Then stand up, grasp your head and yell "NO! I WILL NOT KILL AGAIN" before running out of the office.
I guarantee they'll quieten down each time you enter the office from then on.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Rather get a large Valium prescription from your GP. It's really nice. 
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Just let me know the name of the person who did this and I'll send da boyz round.
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After da boyz have finished making a statement 'chez Keith', can you let them sort out a similar problem at my place of work?
Sendz da boyz plz Urgentz
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cptKoala wrote: Sendz da boyz plz Urgentz
Take it to QA!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I've got a chore for them as well.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder
Be careful which toes you step on today, they might be connected to the foot that kicks your butt tomorrow.
You can't scare me, I have children.
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I think I've just discovered a lucrative new market for my company.
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Worked in an office where someone insisted on having the radio on all day - no choice as to what station etc. Not allowed to wear headphones either..
I solved it by singing along to every track. Loudly. And badly (that bit wasn't hard)
Just less than two weeks later the radio was turned off and we were told headphones were OK as long as they were quiet enough that we could still hear if people were trying to talk to us.
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If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Bitch, heavily.
Emphasize that you find the environment heavily distracting and it will affect your productivity and mental health.
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He works in Sunderland. It's a given dat da bitches is heavy.
Watched Ali G last night. Does it show?
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My favourites remain the old 11'0'clock show shorts where he interviewed various politician's etc.
Asking a republican in Northern Ireland (with a straight face) "Is the Pope a Catholic?"
Or while attending an environmental demo, and being manhandled by police (or somesuch, its a few years back now) "Is it cause I's black?"
Some here, unfortunately bad quality... Ali G - 11 O Clock Show[^]
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