Imagine when you are concentrating on your facebook status work, next to your cubicle is your colleague is having a discussion over the phone with client, you could not hear them. Opposite you is your colleague sharing a joke with your other colleagues and burst into laughter, your facial muscle not even twitched simply because you are 100% concentrating on your work.
At this moment, you hear the sound of your table being scratched or lightly tapped. You thought your colleague is standing behind you looking and seeking for your attention. You turned and look, nobody was there and someone just passed by.
There are these kind of people with such habit that what they did were just to go to the destination and on their way will pass by your cubicle. Unintentionally, for no reason, when they approaching your cubicle, lift the arm up, place the palm facing down with the fingers pointing your table and runs the nails across the surface of the table as if wolverine is running his titanium claws over the walls. Or they could be tapping their fingers on your table back and forth as they passing by.
When their fingers reach the end of the table, continue to walk as if nothing happen. And repeat the sequence on the next table. Or they chose selected tables only.
These office bastards didn’t realize that they are disturbing and annoying other people at their work by having this small little bad habit.
Out of ten times I turned my head and look when this happen, eleven times was I saw those office bastards finished running their fingers on my table and continue their walk and not noticing there is a hulk to be with 180 heart beats per minutes pumping and staring at them.
I am getting fed up confronting to them about their bad habit and behavior.
These might be able to help them to stop and drop their bad habit (in order according to severity):
- Send them email and confront them
- Send them email and confront them, cc their boss
- Catch them in the act and confront them
- Lay some printer toner on your table (Remember white chalk under your desk during primary school?) Then offer them to eat something nice as they passing by (Preferably oily food, yeah, finger lickin’ good)
- Spray some super glue on top of your table (Preferably elephant brand)
- Place a motion sensor and hook it up with a few pen knives laying and deploy upon detecting motion at 19.38 degrees with the sharp edge pointing against direction of motion
To solve a problem, first is to find the root of the cause.