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EmotionalLimbo · 28/11/2025 16:25

I'm a PhD student and work in a doctoral school office with several other researchers, all doing our own thing. It's a wonderful quiet space and we're very lucky.

Well quiet that is until the bins are emptied every afternoon. I'm not sure if the person who comes in is a cleaner because I've never seen her do any cleaning in this office but she might do in other parts of the building.

She's just so loud. She's talking on the phone using Bluetooth earpieces so it looks like she's talking to herself. It's so distracting and it's not a work conversation because it's a foreign language.

I've contacted the estates people to ask them to tell her to stop as it's annoying everyone but nobody dare say anything. It's not my job to tackle her.

AIBU?

OP posts:
tripleginandtonic · 28/11/2025 16:28

Emptying bins doesn't take that long, can't believe you've even raised it as an issue.

Pancakeflipper · 28/11/2025 16:28

How long is she there for?

If it's about 20mins, I'd take it as an opportunity to go to the loo, have a break etc.