Sighing LOUDLY every 2-3 mins

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I work in an open plan office. It’s relatively quiet.

What can I do to a loud arse who SIGHS LOUDLY every 2 mins. Like a loud from the belly whispery/quivery sigh...he sits about half way down the office from me so not a neighbour. I’d like to shove a cheesy sock ball down his gob next time he does it.

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No one cares :(... or you’re all enjoying lazy summer mornings with your brats 😆

I'd have to casually ask him if everything was ok because he keeps sighing and see if he got the message.

. or you’re all enjoying lazy summer mornings with your brats

that me made me laugh

I would have to ask him what was wrong.

Yep, I am in bed watching Frasier. My brats are down stairs playing video games.

I'd be very tempted to emit a high pitched 'bing' after each sigh.

I sigh s lot when I’m stressed. It’s unconscious. I would genuinely ask him if he’s ok.

Loud recurrent sighing is a sign of depression

Yup - what Diditalash said.

Say “oh dear, is everything ok?” And when he is bewildered, you can tell him that he is sighing constantly. Should put him off a bit hopefully.

Having a good sigh is great though - I am a big fan. Still, there’s nothing like a repeated noise to make people want to gun you down!!

I like the bing idea.

I’d shout down to him

“JOHN WHATS WRONG?!? ARE YOU OK? WHY DO YOU KEEP MAKING THAT NOISE?!”

Any chance he doesn't realise he's doing it? I had a job once that required some focused attention to prep work first thing in the morning, so all was pretty quiet. I got told I always huffed when I did it and I honestly had no idea! I was deep in concentration (and being in a bad mood because it was early ). I felt a bit mortified when I was told, but it sorted it out!

I don’t even know him...he’s from a different department and I have no dealings with him. I can only hear him every few mins and the repetitiveness of it is making me cringe.

I’ve started putting earphones in, but then I have to be tapped on the shoulder if one of my team want to talk, and I don’t like being touched.

I’ll just have to push through it :/

Omg, I just sighed as I put the phone down. It must be contagious like yawning 🤣😂

OH does this, drives me mad!

Once you've noticed something, you pick up on it all the time, it must be so frustrating. As you don't really know him I wouldn't really approach him, unfortunately I think earphones are the way to go.

I was once on a shared office with a sniffer & bought him some tissues in the end! Stopped for a few days then carried on, if people don't realise they're doing it, it's hard to stop!

Ugh he sounds insufferable. Ask him if he’s okay and tell him you’re asking because he sighs constantly and you assumed he was unhappy.

I used to sit next to a habitual sigher. She had absolutely no idea she was doing it, and once someone said something she made an effort to stop herself and everything was fine.

Have you tried saying something?

Create an anonymous email account and inform him the martyr sighing has to stop. ✋🚫

He’s complaining about something now, a job he used to do properly and whoever has taken over isn’t doing it as well as him, so “he won’t get involved anymore”.ugh.

Wish I could bring him some tissues...to stuff his face with 😐

I’ve also only been here a month. I think it’s too soon to start telling people to stop sighing and what not. But I can dream about strangulation and suffocation can’t I? 😏

Can you fart every time he sighs? If he complains say that you are only expelling air, same as him, but this is your preferred method.

I am an insufferable deep sigher, and now a snorer!! But only since becoming pregnant perhaps ask him if he's sighing for two?

Hope your bosses dont catch you on here, when you suppose to be working.

Yes tell him to stop bloody sighing.

I had a colleague like this. She was at the desk next to me too In her case, she sighed (more like huffed, actually) to get attention if she was feeling stressed (which was all the time). She'd huff long enough each time for someone to say, "Is everything OK?" And then she'd explain in the lengthiest way possible what was currently stressful about her work. And then refuse any help with it Most people stopped asking after a time; it would usually be a new person who'd stop what they were doing in order to counsel her.

Problem was, I was RIGHT next to her so I had to make a choice, daily - would I go through the charade of pretending to care what photocopier problem she'd run into that day (and lose 30 minutes of my own time), or would I endure the huffing in my right ear every few minutes until I left for the evening?

Finally, I left. She left a month later

Not being funny, if he's not aware or doing it on purpose homeopathic remedy ignatia may help.
If he is aware, doing it on purpose and has been told, his boss should talk to him about distracting other workers
You can dream whatever you like