We have someone who can always be heard on the phone from about 5 cubes away. Every word. Today, she was her typical self and stood outside our area and talked about a horse farm for handicapped people…for 5 minutes! The poor guy she was talking to was talking very quietly, so that if we didn’t want to hear what was being said, we could ignore it.
While doing this, no one can hold their own conversations, let along talk on the phone. It is a complete disruption and annoyance. After four minutes, she raised the bar, not in volume, but sheer insensitivity. Without any prompting from him, she blurted out “We adopted a horse for a year; it’s $3,000. Sure that’s a lot of money, but we could have adopted whatever. … If I won the lottery I’d be their benefactor.”
Within earshot of her, not to mention grabbing distance, there were FOUR people scraping by with less than one paycheck in reserves, and here she is flaunting how she dropped THREE grand on a horse that she doesn’t get to feed, brush, or ride on a daily basis. It is for other people to ride.
OMG, she came back and is talking again. Where is my baseball bat?
