My office is a cramped wonderland of cubicle hell in which we all sit a little too close. There is a man whose cubicle is very close to mine and he feels the need to talk A lot during any given day. To see him you might think he looks similar to Mr. Rogers, nice guy - certainly not someone to bother you. Anyways he looks soft, his voice is high pitched and he discusses things such as hockey (big fan of most sports apparently). It is a soft voice that is somewhat childlike or sounds like he has never really yelled in his life?
So this man uses his high pitched voice all day long and gets extremely excited at least three times a day, which has really come to irritate me. I try to picture him dressed in his little cardigan and his slightly balding combover but sometimes I just want to ask him to shut up.
I have considered sending an email or phone call letting him know that his high pitch gets my attention (kinda like a dog I am, I guess) and if he could please respect others by not talking. It would be much appreciated by his cubicle neighbors.
I really don’t want this guy’s feelings to get hurt, any adivce for me?
I think you could ask him to tone it down a little when he gets excited. That wouldn’t really be an offensive remark. As for the general tone of his voice at other times, you’ll just have to learn to live with it, he probably can’t help it anymore than you can help noticing it.
BTW, I came to this thread hoping it was a discussion of people whose voices annoy us, and I was all set to rip into James Carville. Oh well, I’ll leave that one for another day…
Same thought here Rex, so I’ll just slide in Gilbert Godfreid. On the advice front, some duct tape over his mouth should do the job.
I was going to mention how it took a long time for me to be able to watch Star Trek Voyager, because Kate Mulgrew’s voice grated on my nerves.
Asking someone to not talk because you don’t like the sound is pretty rude and inconsiderate. It’s also something he’s probably heard before, but how do you just go about changing your voice? Unless this guy is really loud when he “gets excited,” I’d say deal with it.
On Saturday Night Live, the voices of Tracy Morgan or Rachel Dretch never fail to elicit sharp, excruciating pain.
Gilbert Gottfried should drown in a vat of liquid rat shit.
I had started out more general until he starting talking, and I didn’t change the subject to be more specific.
I wish he could change his voice and that I don’t have to deal with it.
The person’s voice I cannot stand the most is Rosie Perez and I cannot believe that she has no control. I disagree with the no control thing, I think it is just not something that matters to these people to which I wish to say they are selfish hobos!
I work near two women who have loud, metallic, cutting voices (like metal saws), and their laughter is even worse. Just ghastly. One has a cubicle across from my office, and the other has a real office with real wall, but she never shuts the door. She also uses the speaker phone for every call she makes and receives. I and the poor woman whose office is directly across from hers have asked her to keep it down, to no avail. It’s aneurysm-inducing, I tell you.
A local(?) radio commercial features “Ray Vincent,” the Capo de Tutti Frutti of “American Equity Mortgage”. Mr. Vincent’s voice is so high-pitched as to remind one of a smallish rodent being pulled through a helium-filled room by its teeny little balls.
Quite annoying.
Can I please express my irritation at the fifty-year-old Brazilian dude in my Spanish class with the ENORMOUS BOOMING VOICE WHO SCREAMS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE SUBJUNCTIVE AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS WHEN ASKED FOR IT!!!
Went to an auction when I was a kid and the real auctioneer let his daughter call a little bit.
She was good, but she was about 10.
Imagine an auctioneer on helium. With amplifiers.
shudder
And I’ll take your Gilbert Gottfried and raise you a Julia Child.
One of my coworkers has a voice like one of Homer Simson’s sisters in law (looks like 'em too). Terrible. Terrible, I tell ya. I keep wanting to hand her a box of throat lozenges every time grits out a sentence. Ain’t that bright either…
We’ve got some annoying talkers here, too.
But I really just wanted to say that I’m going to start calling people I’m mad at selfish hobos. This tickles me for some reason.
I was going to say Gwen Stefani. Her voice sounds to me like someone squeezing their hand on an inflated balloon to make those “Scrrrreeeaaatttccchhhheeeeeeekkkkkk” noises.
Don LaFontaine. Euch.
Although I’m sure he’s a nice fellow, I find Ray Romano’s voice to be quite grating.
Rosie O’Donnell needs to shut her cake-hole, too.
Aww, shut the hell up, the lot of you.
I just wanted to say, in defense of people who don’t have the el supremo of voices, that your voice is your voice. I have a very soft, quiet voice - I think people think that I should just speak up (which I can, for short periods), but it is a strain, because the voice that comes out of my mouth naturallyn is quiet. I can’t sustain loud-talking; it hurts my throat. I don’t think that makes me a selfish hobo. Or any kind of hobo. I have a fixed address, thank you very much.
“Naturallyn”? What the hell…?