Dealing With Noisy Co-Workers
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Here are three fab things about the modern workplace:


1.    Your BFF sits at a desk 10 feet away.


2.    You can yell across the office to ask your supervisor a question anytime you want.


3.    It’s easy to stay up to speed on gossip and pop culture (or important project updates), because more or less everyone is sitting there working together.


And then there are three things that are bad about the modern workplace:


1.    See above. 

The people you work with are great, but they’re so noisy and intrusive that you can’t get anything done! Each time you sit down to work on something, you’re barraged by inconvenient obtrusions. Here’s how to stop the noise.


Written by: Anne Zimmerman
Anne Zimmerman received her MA in Woman's Studies from San Diego State University. She works for a small, family run winery in McMinnville, Oregon and is writing a book about the food writer M.F.K. Fisher.