Whistling at work

[BerylStreep]

I am being driven to distraction by a work colleague continually whistling as he walks up and down the corridor in work. It's bloody incessant and tuneless, and it feels like an audio form of manspreading.

WIBU to bludgeon him with a stapler next time?

Speaking as someone with a workman in, who's been whistling the same one bar of a song since 8am... YANBU.

I fucking hate whistlers. I'd like to stab them in the tongue with a fork.

Full permission from me to stapler him to death. Why are some people so bloody noisy? Looking at you DP......

Whistling should be illegal.

Why not just say “hey Bob, your whistling is driving me mad can you stop?”

Better than coin pocket jinglers.
Better than whistlehumming through closed teeth.

But Snow White recommends it?!

It doesn’t bother me but I work in a call centre so it’s noisy anyway.

DancingLedge he's a pocket jingler too. Quite how he has the time to roam the corridors whistling is another matter. He does it en route to chat up a recently divorced colleague for hours each day.

sets my teeth on edge at any time or anywhere! Once shortened a trip with a friend of a friend as a day in he had't stopped whistling in the car (Road trip). Drove me bananas.

'He does it en route to chat up a recently divorced colleague for hours each day. '

Noisy buggers are noisy buggers I find. Whistlers tend to be coin rattlers and plate scrapers and tea slurpers and all sorts of other horrors as well.

Oh god this might be long.

The man who sits next to me constantly whistles along to the radio. If he's not whistling he's singing. If he's not whistling or singing then he's putting on a stupid voice or trying to talk in an accent. He's rubbish at accents.

Very occasionally I'll start to quietly hum or sing - he takes over at the top of his voice after a bar or two. If I say anything about what I did last night or am going to do over the weekend etc he'll ask stupid questions or make annoying comments.

I actually told him a few weeks ago that I was going to kill me and I'd be acquitted when I told the jury what he's like!

I'm in my 40s and he's about 15 years older. The only thing that keeps me going is knowing I only have about 10 years till he retires...

I can't bear whistling, it actually sets off a panic response in my body.

I have misophonia so I might be less tolerant than your average person but my god, I could kill people who whistle.

Dear lord Groovy, he sound totally unbearable. What a plum. We used to have someone in our office who would sing along with the radio, even if she didn't know the words, or the tune! I asked her one day if she was auditioning for X Factor or what. She didn't get it. At all.

Give me strength.

It is a Terrible thing to hear someone whistling. Should be banned.

Uurgh!Beryl that poor woman!
Not long since the trauma of divorce, quietly working away, when ,daily, she hears... the approach of the whistling coin pocket jingler.

I guess he's trying for jaunty...

How do you resist the impulse to accidently on purpose stretch out your foot as he reaches your desk ? Sisterhood and all that

DancingLedge I did muscle in on his chatting up last week

I wouldn't normally do anything like that, and I'm normally up to my eyes anyway, but I couldn't stand it any longer, so went into her office, asked if her office was the new break room, then sat down and out chatted her up! (I'm straight, she knows that. I think she was )

BerylStreep

Based on movies I've seen I have a theory that whistling is a sure sign of a serial killer, so best to bludgeon him with a stapler before he bludgeons you.