# Silence is Golden..or, cow-orkers shut up!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silence-is-golden-or-cow-orkers-shut-up/196730>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 21, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silence-is-golden-or-cow-orkers-shut-up/196730 "2003-08-21T17:36:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silence-is-golden-or-cow-orkers-shut-up/196730/41 "2004-04-29T17:30:48Z")

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> [@catsix](#):
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> Being a small company, we don’t have an HR department. We have complained to our boss about it, and since then CtAC still looks but at least he tries to hide it now.

Well, depending on how “hostile” the environment is, you may have a lawsuit, especially since it doesn’t look like your boss is going to do much about it.

Meanwhile, I would do things that would make CtAC think he is losing his mind. Slightly rearrange his desk or his computer settings (wearing gloves of course, this guy sounds icky.) Make appointments for him that get him out of the building for hours on end. Etc. I’m sure you and your fellow sufferees can come up with more!

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**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silence-is-golden-or-cow-orkers-shut-up/196730/42 "2004-04-29T17:39:29Z")

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We mess with him all the time.

The last time he was messed with, someone hid his electric pencil sharpener. He spent three hours running around the building looking for it. Someone else posted reward signs on all the bulletin boards.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silence-is-golden-or-cow-orkers-shut-up/196730/43 "2004-04-30T14:36:29Z")

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> [@catsix](#):
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> We mess with him all the time.
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> The last time he was messed with, someone hid his electric pencil sharpener. He spent three hours running around the building looking for it. Someone else posted reward signs on all the bulletin boards.

“Next time someone takes my electric pencil sharpener, I’m gonna burn down the building.”

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**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/silence-is-golden-or-cow-orkers-shut-up/196730/44 "2004-04-30T16:01:24Z")

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If he weren’t such a hot-air filled pussy, I might be afraid of him doing that. But as it is, the guy is more impotent than a eunuch.

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