Our operations manager has an office right next to the cubes (with low walls) where I work. He never takes a call with the handset - it's always the speakerphone.
I will say that despite this being a real PITA some times, it does keep us "in the loop" as far as stuff going on in the organization. I'm saying that he even discusses personnel matters over the speakerphone - and he never closes his door. Dan On Oct 1, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Curt, I totally sympathize. What gets me is the use of speakerphone from > the other end of the corridor - I can barely hear it, and it drives me > nuts. All work grinds to a halt. > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> I had a co-worker who sat on the opposite side of the cube wall from me >> who liked whiney folk music. She'd play it from the PC speaker quiet enough >> I could barely hear it. As much as I don't like whiney folk music it was >> worse because I could only barely hear it. I offered her my headphones, I >> even offered her my speakers. >> >> Finally the day before Christmas I stole the audio cable from the CDROM >> drive to the sound card. She didn't find out for 3 or 4 days. When she did >> she sent an email to the whole company "I know who you are and I will get >> you for messing with my computer!" >> She got an HR action. While she was in the meeting with HR (this is why >> you don't send threatening emails to the whole company) our boss came over >> and asked me not to do that again. >> >> A couple weeks later she was back at it so this time I cut all the paper >> out of the speaker. She in turn stole the power cables from everything in >> the cube of the guy to my left... She got "to pursue other opportunities" >> after that. >> >> -Curt >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 2:04 PM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Becker BE 1480 Cassette plays but the silence is >> deafening >> >> >> On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 06:45:11 -0400 Tim Crone via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >>> Next time some guy with a gangsta radio drives by I will think how much >>> fun it would be to rebroadcast Brahms on his wavelength. >> >> I did something like that while working at Hewlett Packard in Colorado >> Springs. The folks on the production line, some distance away from my >> desk, would play the rock music on their radios rather loudly, so I got an >> RF signal generator and an audio signal generator. I made a dipole antenna >> about 5' long with a BNC connector and some wire and connected that to >> the output of the RF signal generator with some RG-58 BNC cables. I >> connected the output of the audio signal generator to the FM input of the >> RF signal generator and set it for 1 kHz. I then tuned the RF signal >> generator until I heard a raucous 1 kHz tone (I overmodulated the RF >> signal generator compared to the FM standard), at which point the radio >> was turned down. >> >> One time after having done that, I went to talk with the guy with the >> radio. I said, "I'd like to make a deal with you." The guy perked up. So >> I said gently, "Would you please turn your radio down?" The guy was very >> cooperative and did turn down the radio. One of his coworkers then said, >> "So what's the deal?" I said, "If you will keep the radio turned down, I >> won't jam it again." >> >> I had no more problems. >> >> >> Craig >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. 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