How to tell a new co-worker she talks to loud?
yup..have to be careful about this..I dont want her taking it the wrong way. She does seem like a emotional person too..last thing I want is for her to start sobbing and everyone starts pointing fingers at me.
Im still debating even mentioning it. But I wanted to get it off my chest...I just dont wanna snap!
Im still debating even mentioning it. But I wanted to get it off my chest...I just dont wanna snap!
If you have not, I suggest as I believe someone else did, bring this up with your manager. That should be your first step. IMO. Let them deal with it. And Like you said you don't want to somehow hurt this persons fragile feelings and send them into a crying fit.
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I wore noise-cancelling headphones or in-ear plugs/earbuds ~90% of the time when I had to sit in a cubicle. I highly recommend this route, it is very relaxing. Also find them helpful when sitting in traffic, something about not being able to hear all the *******s around me helps me pretend they aren't there.
- tell your manager. it's their job to deal with your problems and make you a productive worker. This behavior is affecting your productivity.
- If necessary, continue by escalating to higher level managers or to her manager until the company takes action.
- If the company refuses to take action then do it yourself.
- be a passive aggressive ***** and pretend to get a phone call and talk pointedly louder than her every time she distracts you from something with her volume.
- "Are you always this loud? How about after work?" She probably won't talk near you again. However, she may try to get you in trouble for harassment.
- tell your manager. it's their job to deal with your problems and make you a productive worker. This behavior is affecting your productivity.
- If necessary, continue by escalating to higher level managers or to her manager until the company takes action.
- If the company refuses to take action then do it yourself.
- be a passive aggressive ***** and pretend to get a phone call and talk pointedly louder than her every time she distracts you from something with her volume.
- "Are you always this loud? How about after work?" She probably won't talk near you again. However, she may try to get you in trouble for harassment.
I work in the facilities department and manage three buildings. This is something I hear about often and get requests to move someone because they don't like sitting close to "X" person because they are loud, they constantly have someone stopping at their desk to talk (work related) or they wear to strong of a perfume/cologne. My suggestion would be to engage in some polite conversation and politely bring it up. whatever and how ever you do it just be polite. You are not the only person who sits by her are you if your not I bet others are just as annoyed?
cubicle reassignments can be/are a pain and can put people out of their "group", you also risk disrupting others because by moving the loud person you now most likely have to swap cubicles with someone else who was perfectly happy in their florescent jail cell/Hell, I mean cubicle. Just my .02.
cubicle reassignments can be/are a pain and can put people out of their "group", you also risk disrupting others because by moving the loud person you now most likely have to swap cubicles with someone else who was perfectly happy in their florescent jail cell/Hell, I mean cubicle. Just my .02.
Where do you work? I am also in facilities/EH&S so we have to deal with this kind of thing a lot.
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