In every office I’ve ever worked in there has always been at
least one person who seems to believe that standing over you, literally
breathing down your neck, while you’re working on something will make you get
it done faster. It doesn’t, not at
all. Even if that person’s breath is
reminiscent of the dump on a hot summer day and you’d gladly trade away 10
years of your life to make them go away sooner.
It just doesn’t work.
In fact it’s nerve wracking and disruptive. I type and do other office work much faster
and with very few errors if there’s not some jerk breathing down my neck. It’s not out of spite; it’s that the stress
and annoyance (not to mention the effort not to breathe through my nose if the
hoverer is the person with dump breath) aren’t conducive to efficient and quality
work.
So what about you?
Does it make it harder for you to work quickly and do a good job if
there’s someone standing over you? Have you
found a way to discourage the behavior?
Good luck with your blog, I am retired so have stopped working.
ReplyDeleteSecondly thank you for your kind comment, sadly I didn't get a phone call from my birthday grandson.........I was hoping.
Yvonne.
Thanks! Yay for you being retired. :-)
DeleteSorry you didn't get your call.
Ok you had me at the title and subtitle ..lol...I do work in an office and boy do I have stories lol.....
ReplyDeleteOffices seem to generate a lot of stories. I'm glad I'm not the only one. What can I say? Misery loves company.
DeleteThis is one I've thankfully missed. In my previous job I actually had to sometimes do it to others (under orders! Only under orders!) I hated doing it, knew it wasn't helping, but had to in order to make sure I stayed employed.
ReplyDeleteI suppose you're forgiven since you did it only orders and it sounds like you were just as miserable as the people you were standing over. This is food for thought, being forced to torment others....
DeleteYeah that's really infuriating. I used to draw ductwork in CAD, and the some designers would stand behind me and tell me "draw this here, then this here, no up. no up. UP UP!" Do you want me to SCROLL up? Cause that makes the drawing go down...
ReplyDeleteYeah, makes me angry. Always wanted to throw a quick elbow to the stuff.
I like the elbow idea!
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