Whistling in work Yea or Nay?

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Does anyone else have a thing about people whistling in work or just being overly loud in general with their personality? Do you just bottle up the feelings or do you speak your mind?
 
If someone is a pest I'll let them know in jest before it becomes an issue. A lot of the times they don't realise it themselves.

Likewise if I'm ever gobbing off about something too enthusiastically or tapping my feet or something...I'd rather get the old stress ball off the napper treatment before anyone is actually po'd with me
 
Easily being able to avoid / switch off annoying colleagues is one of the great outcomes from covid.

And yes I find work whistlers and gob ****** fairly annoying.
 
I'm tone deaf and sing and whistle loudly whilst I work, I don't care, it's a free country, so deal with it.

I work in engineering and not in an office though, it's acceptable for horrendous singing etc, generates good banter as well.
 
I think you’d be fired at my place if you had a habit of whistling at work. Obviously depends on working environment as to how acceptable it is.

As a rule of thumb.... It’s a good fail safe interview question I suppose: “are you inclined to whistle, hum, sing or otherwise be an inconsiderate **** at work or any other time?” - if the answer is yes, we could then dispose of them before they leave the building, before they cause more irritation to anyone else.
 
Nitefly said:
I think you’d be fired at my place if you had a habit of whistling at work. Obviously depends on working environment as to how acceptable it is.

As a rule of thumb.... It’s a good fail safe interview question I suppose: “are you inclined to whistle, hum, sing or otherwise be an inconsiderate **** at work or any other time?” - if the answer is yes, we could then dispose of them before they leave the building, before they cause more irritation to anyone else.
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@Nitefly getting down with his bad self and I completely agree but also look forward to his origin story about humming and who he usurped and so on! Rad.

There are quite a few things going on in MR OP's message (once again) apart from whistling so ...
 
alchal said:
I'm tone deaf and sing and whistle loudly whilst I work, I don't care, it's a free country, so deal with it.

I work in engineering and not in an office though, it's acceptable for horrendous singing etc, generates good banter as well.
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Not for me, a free country doesn't involve the place i work at. We've a pair of anxiety filled insecure attention seekers at the place i work at that can't listen to the radio two feet away from them at anything less than full volume while shouting out the lyrics so in the hope that everybody focuses their attention on them.

Most of the time it's easy to shut it out, but when you really need to concentrate and focus on what you're doing it starts to grate and you can't do that.

Sadly we've no shop floor management beyond somebody who just takes charge because he's been there longer than anybody else. Needless to say he doesn't care, so we all get to share their anxieties on a daily basis.
 
Reality|Bites said:
Does anyone else have a thing about people whistling in work or just being overly loud in general with their personality? Do you just bottle up the feelings or do you speak your mind?
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Nay. Whistling at work (unless of course your work entails whistling) is not OK. Nor is humming etc. It just shows a lack of consideration for your colleagues and a lack of self awareness if you don’t realise it is disturbing or unprofessional to do in an office or whatever.

bah humbug lol
 
lokiss said:
listen to the radio two feet away from them at anything less than full volume
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i can kinda deal with folks intermittently humming/whistling but what really gets me is workplaces that have radio 1 or whatever blasting on the tannoy constantly.

earbuds are a thing, people wanna listen to music they can use those rather than forcing everyone in the building to listen to the latest 1 hit wonder 500 times on loop every day.
 
Reality|Bites said:

don't care i'm rockin out to the climax
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Still on the Tomov vodka eh? :D

On topic, I get distracted easily and couldn't have a whistler in the office. My previous department was 8 people in 3 adjacent rooms - 2, 2 and 4. I was in one of the rooms of 2 so I was happy to work with that 1 other person as it was fairly quiet. Then one of the middle managers had a magic money tree moment and decided to have the 3 rooms knocked into 1. The din from the non-stop gossiping was unbearable, and it also caused office politics. Thankfully I wasn't there for much longer because I got poached by another department and I'm now back to working with 1 other person again (pre-covid).
 
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