To dislike a work colleague because.....

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She types like shes playing a piano! Its so irritating but I dont know why. Its the most random way of typing Ive ever seen.

Is she late fifties to sixties? That's how we were taught to type at school on old manual typewriters. You had to really hit the keys and hold your hands up as if playing piano. Hard to unlearn if that's how she was trained.

@mrshoho I only type. I don't use my phone for things. I have whatsapp downloaded to the laptop and literally only respond from it or even check into MN on it. I could not use the phone to send messages as I would be there all day. I type really fast thankfully!

Yes! We had to use a ruler and pencil to find the centre of the page. Tippex for mistakes. Changing ribbons was a fiddle. Carbon paper to duplicate. It seemed quite high tech at the time though! I think I was about 70wpm a long time ago!

I've reluctantly succumbed to thumb typing on WhatsApp and MN. Hence lots of mistakes!

‘Work colleague’ is a tautology. By definition, someone you work with is a colleague.

Just saying.

Gotta have your potato. You're safe as long as you have your —ing potato.

I can understand that, my old Granny used to say
"You never know when you might need a potato".
And she lived to be almost 100. So there must be some truth in it.

I’d like to suggest you are talking utter parsnips.

One of my colleagues types as if he is attacking his keyboard. Is that also somehow only a problem for me because of some personal drama I’m apparently experiencing?

Fruit yes but a potato...wtaf!! What a wierdo
I'd of had to ask her what she planned to do with potato!

"I did suggest this but apparently there was nowhere else for her to sit!"

No, you misunderstood. I meant that YOU should move. 🙄

😂

I was quietly impressed when my son ignored the no phones at the dinner table rule one time and was texting away on his phone held under the table.

I’ve got some emergency porridge in my cupboard at work. But I do eat it as I seem to have a lot of hunger related emergencies at work 🙄

There are so many ways of playing a piano that your post tells me nothing. Does she have a jazz touch or a classical touch? Does she play legato or staccato? Is it the sound or the sight you object to? If it is the sight, why are you watching her? If it is the sound, it could be that you are too strung-up and need to take more breaks from sitting at your desk and more physical exercise generally. My hearing gets very sensitive when I am mentally tired or overstimulated.

I was at my desk for 8 years and I certainly started to decay

A girl on our office floor was forced by HR to use a silent glass keyboard because she hammered so hard on the standard ones. Could be heard from any place in that room.

She was completely oblivious .

Sad thing is that I bet from what the OP describes that part of the week could be spent wfh and so not having to put up with this annoyance as much.

Definitely.

what the?! why?? Did you ever ask her?

Maybe it's the one thing that alleviates the boredom?

Oh! I type like this! I sometimes imagine I’m doing a piano show.

I had a manager once who used to touch type while talking to you. It was really impressive and the rest of us had talked about it behind her back because we were in such awe (I was about 26 at the time).

One of the times that she'd summoned me into her office for something or other and she was simultaneously typing away while taking to me, someone knocked on her door as a client had fallen down some stairs and she was suddenly called away.

As I sat there, I was suddenly compelled to get up go around her desk and look at her screen to see what she was typing. It looked like this; lhhdsl;flfndhfdvcsfxlsu;d/;jn cmd/ipkb asns;aD vkn'j'phjvnlfebih'wd eqkslslx xlxsx'
lines and lines of this stuff. I couldn't resist calling some of my co-workers in to have a look at her screen. It had all been an act! 😂

Yep, that's how we learnt in the old days when typewriters were typewriters. Never had any RSI or backache either. Bet she's quick though, I managed 55 words a minute under exam conditions typing like that. Gosh those were the days, tippex and carbon copies..... thank God for word processors and computers. 😆

Now that is bizarre. Were you ever tempted to take it and cook it yourself! Somehow it reminds me of the goon show, with the typing adding to the craziness. If you think about that maybe you wont be so irritated by her typing!

What?? Did you ever find out why??? Surely someone had the balls to ask!! I need to know why ffs!!! Ahahah

You mean she is actually touch-typing properly? Using all her fingers & thumbs? Not prodding at the keyboard with two fingers? Yes, you are being unreasonable.