{"id":1087,"date":"2007-07-24T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/the-most-annoying-office-habits\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T16:30:22","slug":"the-most-annoying-office-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/the-most-annoying-office-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Annoying Office Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo! Finance comes this article &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/career-work\/article\/103249\/How-Loud-is-too-Loud\" target=\"_blank\">How Loud is too Loud?<\/a>&nbsp; As you might guess, the loud phone talker topped the survey as the most annoying office habit.&nbsp; Being an auditory person, I can agree with that one.&nbsp; I&#8217;m always telling the Rock Star to use his indoor voice since his voice carries a country mile.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Despite the laundry list of complaints, the loud talker wins the award for most annoying. Of 2,318 people surveyed in March 2006 by Harris Interactive and Randstad, 32% say an office loud talker is their biggest pet peeve. Coming in a close second at 30% is using an annoying cellphone ringtone; 22% said speakerphones are their No. 1 peeve.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I worked in a cube farm early in my career and was a neighbor to a speakerphone talker.&nbsp; I would have voted that as the most annoying habit.&nbsp; This guy would talk to prospects and customers&nbsp;with a speakerphone that would clip both sides of the discussion (not a full duplex speakerphone).&nbsp; I was amazed that he sold anything at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Yahoo! Finance comes this article &#8211; How Loud is too Loud?&nbsp; As you might guess, the loud phone talker topped the survey as the most annoying office habit.&nbsp; Being an auditory person, I can agree with that one.&nbsp; I&#8217;m always telling the Rock Star to use his indoor voice since his voice carries a country mile. Despite the laundry list of complaints, the loud talker wins the award for most annoying. Of 2,318 people surveyed in March 2006 by Harris Interactive and Randstad, 32% say an office loud talker is their biggest pet peeve. Coming in a close second at 30% is using an annoying cellphone ringtone; 22% said&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/07\/the-most-annoying-office-habits\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-hx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->