I'm outing myself as a cubicle worker (I have a window seat, but still, a cubicle ). Anyway, my co-worker who sits in the neighbouring one has been driving me crazy for months now (ever since she moved there) because SHE TYPES TOO LOUD ...pounds the shit out of the keyboard.

I figured out what it is: She types with one finger, the middle right one, and she types surprisingly fast in spite of it. (How she never learned to type properly, I don't know).

We're pretty friendly any other time, but when she starts typing, I turn into Beverly Sutphin man! I started bringing my ipod to work because of this, but I don't like listening to music when I work.

I want to tactfully tell her that it's disturbing, but she's this hyper-sensitive mess, and if I do, the friendship is over. I could always ask to move, but why should I give up my real estate?

God I'm so petty, but pls HELP/HALP with some suggestions.

I have no suggestions except the headphones music thing. There are a couple of super fast/loud typer in my office. Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh. It makes me want to bash my head in. Loud talking doesn't bother me half as much.

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yeah, I don't understand the hard typing. The words are not going to get on the screen any faster. I'm surprised her keyboard hasn't died.

Loud talking doesn't bother me either. It used to, but I've somehow managed to live with it, and sometimes even work better with it. This typing thing is just not going to grow on me though. Headphones it is.

I don`t get that either...loud typing is annoying

We have a lot of gossipy ladies that have been there way too long!

Back in the glorious 1980s there was a toy called TypeRight which was meant to teach people how to type, it had a handbook and everything.
If it still existed, I would find one, ship it to you, and you could anonymously put it on her desk...
I feel your pain. I used to have a co-worker like this, aiiigggggghhhh

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I am going to search EVERYWHERE for it!

damn, she must be hitting each key really hard! i wear my ipod at work to drown out the talkers....we have far too many of them.

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I'd check Ebay. It think it was red with a grey keyboard.

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the other thing I always hear is other people`s phones

I used to type way too loud. I'm calming down a little as the years go on.

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i hate people who have fake or ridiculously long fingernails and its all clacky when they type. and they think that's a good thing.

lol prude is your cubicle nicely decorated?

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My co worker opposite is a complete headcase who is incapable of pretty muchh all of her duties as a secretary. To the point where she cannot use her tape player for audio typing because 'the pedals confuse me'...so now I have the dictaphone ranting on for hours while she painstaking slams the keys into the keyboard and muttering all the time.

She was sick in her mug one time and left it on her desk ready for tea time...:x

She is also oblivious to her flies bulding open...to the point where the MD actually had to tell her. So she stoof in the middle of the office and explained that they had broken in the changing room when she forced them over her ass.

I hate open plan...

don't even start me on phones. we have a big problem with cell phones here. they drive me crazy.

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i'm a loud typer. i'm not even sure why because i generally use a laptop. i'm very aware i have a problem and get embarrased at uni in the computer labs and stuff. cant fucking fix it!

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Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling.

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Maybe you should suggest to your boss that he by her one of those rubber keyboards. We had them in my uni library. They are terrible to type on, but atleast they are nice and quiet.

My boss slurps her soup. I think she thinks it's cute. She's doing it right now. It makes me want to swallow staples to get away.

That rubber keyboard sounds like a good idea. I'm now a little self-conscious about how loudly I type. I don't think it's too loud...

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You must live on land and I must live at sea.

Sorry, I didn't mean to make any other loud typers feel self-conscious.

She's just in a different class of loud (with the use of the one finger and all). Regular loud is ok.

I'm too embarassed to tell anyone irl about my annoyance as I'm afraid they'll write me off as a loon.

and vulgaris, my cubicle is decorated only with a calendar and various tax law notes (i'm a boring accountant).