AIBU to be driven mad by a colleague typing loudly all day?

[MyShyCat]

AIBU to want to scream at my colleague who sits beside me for typing so loudly?

Every keystroke is SMACK SMACK SMACK. It's like she is trying to countersink the keys into the desk.

Zero ability to change her behaviour. Various people have mentioned it but she just giggles and says "oh yeah, my husband says I'm loud too!"

SMACK SMACK WHACK SMACK WHACKETY SMACKETY SMACK WHACK WHACK

Touch type... Now that's a good idea.

Not Smack Type or Whack Type?

I must tell her.

Is "FIX BAYONETS!!!!" considered polite engagement?

Not permitted my office

I’ve worked with people like that, it’s as if
they type by throwing rocks on the keyboard

Maybe discreet earplugs would help.

People have been working in offices without earphones for more than a century.

How silly to say it's now unreasonable.

Oh god I am that person! Luckily when I’m typing I’m at home alone now 🤣

You have to zone out from other noise in an open plan office. And focus on whatever it is you are doing.
She sounds like the sort of person who doesn’t know you can close a door instead of slamming it. They are usually oblivious to the racket they make.

These people drive me mad. I dont mind typing noise but why do some people attack the keyboard? Atghghghghg

You've been talking to my wife again haven't you!!

We had a conversation about this at work once, in an office of several over 50s and a handful of young people. We came to the conclusion that it's us oldies above a certain age (yes, myself included) who tend to whack the keyboard noisily. It's because we learned to type hundreds of years ago on an old fashioned manual typewriter. You had to wallop the keys pretty hard to get anywhere. Anyone who learned on a modern keyboard can type nice and quietly, but we've had to learn new habits. I must confess to rattling away on my keyboard at times, but fortunately nobody else has to listen to me as I don't have to share my office space. It's just as well as I'm probably very annoying.

You've misunderstood quite a lot.

OP didn't say anything about a rubberised brain cell. She joked about her colleague needing to be put in a rubberised cell - I guess like a padded cell in an asylum.

People are so goddamn humourless around here!

You say about your colleage having a rubberised brain cell.

Please point out where OP said that.

@MyShyCat YANBU

I worked next to someone who wore a bracelet that jangled on her desk everytime she moved her mouse or typed. I wanted to kill her everyday!

I've had several amazon keyboards which come with a silicone keyboard cover. I've noticed this dampens the sound considerably.
Also try a rubberised mat underneath the keyboard.. ( not a rubberised brain cell)

Also. earphones.

Does it interrupt your telephone conversations at work? Rather than keyboards, I had a colleague with a big shouty voice that drove me mad ( get some headphones with a mic) and make your company pay for them.

I type a bit like this, luckily am self-employed from home. I learned to type decades ago, on manual typewriters with rusty keys. My DH is always telling me I only need a light touch nowadays, but it's like telling a cricket bowler to just roll the ball towards the stumps. It's too deeply ingrained in me.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I was accused of similar when I first when into the workplace, OP. I'm quieter these days, but I think it was because, back then, I used to play the piano a lot.

She seems to take people's comments as a joke, but you need to speak to her manager. He or she needs to tell her that hitting the keys so hard all day every day is disturbing people and she needs to not hit the keyboard so hard. Also that it's not great treatment of company property. And also the company should buy her one of those quiet keyboards others have mentioned.

My MIL had the same when she stayed with her once and it was so irritating. I asked her if she realised she had it on and she didn't realise it could be turned off which she then did.

YANBU. I learnt to type on a manual typewriter and remember how weird it seemed when i first typed on a keyboard but i soon adjusted.

Probably not but it's what they deserve, the noisy typists and the ones who hold every conversation at a million decibels!

You wouldn't have thought there'd be that many people still in offices who learned on a manual typewriter these days, I'm mid to late 50s and I learned on a computer keyboard as a teenager.

We aren’t allowed headphones in the office ac it bakes you unapproachable and a colleague can’t just ask a question apparently 🤷🏻‍♀️ one of my colleague doesn’t move her mouse she kind of throws it it it gets to me.

I had this with a colleague, no one else typing bothered me but this particular person used to type in what I can only describe as staccato, nothing for ages then suddenly a load of sharp taps like they were playing piano with flourish and pizzazz.

I ride a motorbike so always have rhubarb and custard ear plugs on hand.

Noise cancelling headphones AND ear plugs are still not enough.