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Originally Posted by pigglet
don't forget...avoiding eye contact like the plague and shuffling papers a lot will get you out of 90% of all extraneous office conversation.
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I loved the fart spray idea. Nice one. Yeah I've tried to avoid eye contact and all that, but the fact is that our "office" (the only one with computers for graduate students) is a set of 8 computers that all face inwards. There are a few cubicle walls between them, but not enough to stop someone from talking to you... and they ALWAYS talk to you. My only semi-successful method is to put on earphones, which seems to block people out... but then if there's a snippet of non-trivial conversation, I miss it.
This semester I don't have any classes in that building and am thus trying my hardest to avoid the place and people. Yes, I am becoming an anti-social bitch at work, but it's my 3rd year there and the place and people have not grown on me much. No wonder we don't have the same taste in television, among other things.
