bagatelle

Are you bothered at your work of people talking excessively around you? Do you complain and are there consequencies of your complaints?

I have two examples. First from my own job.

Two women at our office, when in same evening shift, kept constantly talking loud and joking, disturbing others to the point, their behaviour was seen undesired by many and some co-workers apparently complained to the management as well. Later the other woman was assigned to another type of work for a month. Since these two were separated, the evenings were more peaceful.

Disturbing others was not told being the reason for the transfer, but the women themselves were the ones suspecting, they were separated on purpose. They've been later back again working together, seemingly more quiet. They knew very well they were being nuisance, but they chose not to comply to wishes of others to keep it down until the complaints went further.

My other example is from my hubby's work in a garage. He was suddenly told that he should move to work on another car hoist (?) across the hall. Some excuses were made by the foreman about the rearrangements, but my husband and the guy on the next hoist started pressuring him to tell them the real reason, because they knew this must be only due to some other guy complaining, that they talk too much together while working. Which was the case in the end.

So, how do you deal with these type of situations? Do you openly negotiate with your co-workers, that they are being noisy and disturbing or do you rather take it to the management and expect them to deal with it?

How much tolerance do you have? Do you have office rules you have to abide, so this could not happen?

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