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My company has an open office plan and I feel like the area directly behind my chair was designated as the company's unofficial meeting space, but no one ever told me.

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Oh man. About 10 feet behind my chair is where another department likes to have their meetings. And for whatever reason, they also like to stand there and swap gossip about all the employees.

I mean seriously. I DO NOT need to know any of those things. Especially while I am trying to work. Please go away. Of course they talk really loudly too.

In one job, the group mine sat next to all had phone headsets but they liked to join conference calls by one of them putting it on speakerphone and the rest of them shouting at it, some from 20-30ft away.

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