Co-workers and managers that barge into office

[Anonymous]

Anyone else get annoyed at this? I don’t work at a high-pressure/high-stakes company. I work in a fairly niche, boring, slow-moving industry, mostly working on long, dry, technical documents. Why do co-workers and managers do this?

[Anonymous]

Lock the door. Have a secretary buzz you if someone wants to enter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lock the door. Have a secretary buzz you if someone wants to enter.

LOL. What's a secretary?

[Anonymous]

This would happen to me years ago when I was in office. I would put one of my office chairs slightly in the way so that anyone who barged in would have to slow down and maneuver around it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lock the door. Have a secretary buzz you if someone wants to enter.

Door? Isn’t everyone open office or cubicle these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This would happen to me years ago when I was in office. I would put one of my office chairs slightly in the way so that anyone who barged in would have to slow down and maneuver around it.

I'm going to do this. Love this idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lock the door. Have a secretary buzz you if someone wants to enter.

Door? Isn’t everyone open office or cubicle these days?

OP said barge into office. Wouldn't consider a cubicle or non-enclosed area to be an office by any stretch.

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by barge in?

Imo offices aren't meant to be private. Anyone in the company could walk in of course. Do you expect an invitation?

[Anonymous]

My boss and coworkers don't barge into office. But they constantly send you emails and messages and if you don't respond in like 1 minute, there's another email or message. Geez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My boss and coworkers don't barge into office. But they constantly send you emails and messages and if you don't respond in like 1 minute, there's another email or message. Geez.

Or they ping me on Teams and call 2 second later. Then when I'm away I get messaged on Whatsapp.

[Anonymous]

What are you doing that this bothers you so much.

Guaranteed your coworkers think you look at porn at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else get annoyed at this? I don’t work at a high-pressure/high-stakes company. I work in a fairly niche, boring, slow-moving industry, mostly working on long, dry, technical documents. Why do co-workers and managers do this?

There are two people in my office who do this. They are in their late fifties but otherwise entirely dissimilar. I have a cube that has a peninsula you walk around to get to "my" side where you can see my screen. There's a guest chair on the other side of the peninsula but these two people immediately walk right next to me and start talking. No pause, greeting, or "is this a good time", just all of a sudden they're two feet away talking a mile a minute while I'm still finishing the task I was working on. It's so frustrating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you mean by barge in?

Imo offices aren't meant to be private. Anyone in the company could walk in of course. Do you expect an invitation?

I expect a message asking me if I’m available.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are you doing that this bothers you so much.

Guaranteed your coworkers think you look at porn at work.

Thinking. I don’t look at porn at work or otherwise. But I’m glad coworkers think I’m that interesting.