i need your opinion on something...
the guy that sits in the office next to me, who usually stares out the window, now sits there all day long and plays some game on his computer that constantly pings. and i mean all day, and constantly pinging, ping, ping, ping, ping.
so, when he used to sit and stare out the window, it bothered the shit outta me, but ultimately it didn't "affect" me. but now, i can't take the pinging. he won't do it if one of our site managers are in the trailer, but the rest of the time its ping, ping, ping, ping, ping etc etc.
what i really want to do is make a comment that kills 2 birds with one stone. the comment i have in mind is "you know, if you turn the volume off, then people won't know that you're sitting there playing a game all day". one of the birds is to get him to turn the volume off so i don't have to listen to it anymore. the second bird is to make my point that i know he sits there and does nothing all day long.
so, any opinion? not that i usually care, but is it too confrontational to say that to him? he hates me already cause he knows i'll call him out on his bullshit, so he doesn't even act like i'm alive. so its not like i'd be severing a friendship or anything. i just know he'll go running to tattle on me - or maybe he won't cause he'll have to tell someone that i was calling him out for playing a game all day long....
i really want to say something, but at the same time i know he's not worth my time, let alone the breaths i would be taking to say something to him. i just don't want to listen to the pinging anymore. i guess i could say something to my manager, but that would just be tattling, and i prefer to be straight forward and go straight to the source to give them the opportunity to change on their own....but i know he won't.
please, opinion?
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ooooo. Tough one. You know - regardless of whether he doesn't particularly care for you - you totally have the right to work without constant pinging in your ear. Could you turn on pandora.com and pick a soft radio station to drown him out? Or...you could just be straight up honest and tell him it's driving you crazy, no offense, but would he mind turning it down? I mean, whats wrong with that? Like you said - no severing of bonds will occur so I think thats innocent enough. Sorry girl - I hate those types of situations but you have every right to ask for something like that to end. You work there and are just as valuable as him employee-wise so I say go for it.
ReplyDeleteJust escalate it to the boss, I mean seriously you cannot reason with a man who does nothing at work all day. He isnt going to stop because he obvioulsy already could care less that everyone knows he is not working, not a really good guy here. By going directly to his boss you cut out wasting your time with an idiot.
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