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[Alex]

Originally Posted by Prudence

It could be worse - you could be up here in the feel-good PacNW where we're forbidden to ever make someone feel uncomfortable by asking them to respect boundaries.

My Pacific Northwest training must have been inadequate then because I would have no problem at all telling her to knock it off.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

My Pacific Northwest training must have been inadequate then because I would have no problem at all telling her to knock it off.

I still have a little soupçon of east coast left in me and thus I was able to tell the woman who was singing last week - not humming, but singing, loudly - to knock it off. (and she looked at me like I'd grown a second head, as clearly no one had ever asked her to curtail anything she felt like doing ever.) But there's not much I can do when the office manager arranges for facilities to wall off our window.

Yesterday my east coast granules had the day off so I engaged in properly authorized PacNW passive aggressive techniques. (Specifically, using my headphones that bleed sound and playing Disney themepark music. Guaranteed to drive the non-fan crazy.)