For this rant to make sense, let me explain that about 50% of my job involves making long-distance phone calls. Furthermore, we don't have real cubicles; we're in the middle of what I fondly call a "feedlot" floor plan. So everyone can hear what everyone else is doing, and my department is smack dab between two aisles of female employees (I'm female, so don't think I'm being sexist here) who LOVE to TALK. I swear, some days it sounds like I'm working in a henhouse.
But that's not enough, oh no. Because the billing department is just one small part of a huge building that employs about 1,300 people. And SOMEONE keeps picking up the intercom and making this HORRIBLE feedback whine, usually while I'm in the middle of leaving a voicemail message for someone to call me back. Or paging someone on the intercom while SHOUTING at the top of their lungs. I just can't compete with that!
Even though our job depends on being able to hear and be heard, rumor has it that we once had full cubicle walls, but the management had them dismantled in favor of the current half-wall configuration because they wanted to be able to keep an eye on us. Argh!
But that's not enough, oh no. Because the billing department is just one small part of a huge building that employs about 1,300 people. And SOMEONE keeps picking up the intercom and making this HORRIBLE feedback whine, usually while I'm in the middle of leaving a voicemail message for someone to call me back. Or paging someone on the intercom while SHOUTING at the top of their lungs. I just can't compete with that!
Even though our job depends on being able to hear and be heard, rumor has it that we once had full cubicle walls, but the management had them dismantled in favor of the current half-wall configuration because they wanted to be able to keep an eye on us. Argh!
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