Colleague with grating voice

[DaviesMum]

Picture the scene: large, open plan office of about sixty people. The only sound above general background noise is a woman with no indoors voice. She has an opinion on everything and everyone, and vocalises it LOUDLY.

Her voice has the tonal quality of a cheese grater. She openly mocks clients, often muting calls whilst a client is talking to tell them to fuck off. She gets louder towards the end of each call, ending it with a loud CHEERS. The handset is then slammed down.

Repeat this forty times a day. Fridays are always loud and hyper.

IABU to tell her to tone it the fuck down?

That’s really unprofessional, I’d talk to your manager tbh to have a proper chat with her

Grating voice?

Is she a Dalek?

This is where we've got to, people have to be told not to shout in the office. They must know. Its just defying the rest of us to put up with it or start a shouty war.

I used to work with a woman whose loud voice sounded posher than the Queen. It had the same effect on me as nails dragged down a blackboard. It was stressful and difficult to zone out. You have my sympathy.

Tell her that someone on the other end of your phone was complaining about hearing a staff member, her, being very rude about clients. Do it in a concerned manner, because you hope you’ve managed to talk them out of making an official complaint. 😉 Then every time she starts, pick up the phone and signal that you’re on it, so shush.

I totally get where you are coming from. What do other colleagues think? Whilst not advocating a witch hunt or bullying it would perhaps be more helpful for you if others were of the same opinion as you, so you couldn't be accused of singling her out.

These are the same kind of people who come onto threads about earplugs in the office and say 'it's so unfriendly! I like to have a bit of a chat, breaks up the day'.

My colleague sits right next to me and he grunts around every 15 minutes, its really unpleasant and I feel myself tense up up whenever he does it.

My colleague sits right next to me and he grunts around every 15 minutes, its really unpleasant and I feel myself tense up up whenever he does it.

Is it some sort of tick? My oldest has a cough that is exacerbated when he’s stressed. He has ADD/Aspergers.

If only Doctroo, as I could just unplug her. Sadly this one is really, truly like something that would shred your eardrums. I have a foul mouth but even I'd be pushed to match the invective that she spews on a daily basis.

Say something then. Either to her or someone higher up.