My co-worker sits in her cubicle on the phone crying at least once a week.?

thinking about this is making me emotional.......and i dont know if i want to answer this question........its so hard around the holidays kate the great, go give her a hug

Dear Mose's best friend:

Such behavior is unacceptable in the workplace and in this case the ends justify the means, so don't hesitate to resort to questionable measures. Try hacking into the main phone system and sabotage the phones. That way she can't argue over the phone and you'll get to go home early as an added bonus. You can't work without a phone right?! You can also try throwing things over the cubicle wall as a way to communicate your frustrations. Start with your lunch (maybe some hot tomato soup would do the trick) and if that doesn't work, resort to heavier objects like staplers.

Next time she starts crying, run into her cubicle and start kicking her till she stops. If there is a metal pipe available, use that instead.

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You can talk to her about it and see if she can mebbe use a cell phone in the break room whenever she is gonna get all mushy mushy.

EDIT- What a wonderful bunch of human beings!

"Report her to the boss!"

"Send her to human service!"

"Get her fired!"

Way to reach out and touch the inner child people! Man, no wonder our society is messed up, you step out of line and everybody wants you head on the chopping block. Try to be nice to her.

If that doesn't work, punch her in the FACE!!

Take her aside, and have a one on one honest conversation with her. Be nice and understanding towards her....she is emotional and sensitive...but let her know that your work is getting affected, and that both she and you don't want the boss to know about this and for others to find out and report else there will be problems. Make her feel that u r on her side, but u r afraid that tis might be affecting both her and ur job security and her professional image. Hopefully, after this, she will tone it down.

It sounds like she has some issues that she should not be bringing to work. I don't think you are a horrible person to be annoyed by it because it would probably annoy me too having to hear her cry, then afterwards calling her friends to vent. I would tell your boss to resolve the issue because its not professional to bring your outside problems into work.

Report this to your or her boss. You are not supposed to make long personal calls at the office. I can understand talking about it to another person for a few minutes, but crying?? She needs to make her personal calls on her breaks, not when she is working.

Nope I'd feel the same way. If what she's doing really starts to annoy you - make a anonymous complaint or something of that nature (perhaps that'll teach her to be more professional at work!) Anyways that's all I got...***and remember your definitely not a horrible person for feeling this way, it's normal***

That's is annoying, check your company policy and see what it has to say about making personal calls on company time. And if you find something you could just leave a note ( on her desk when she's gone ) that says read this urgent message. and then state the policy and the consequences of breaking that rule.

I'd be annoyed too.. she should be keeping her personal life, out of the office. Perhaps her supervisor, needs to talk to her about limiting or ceasing any personal calls during working hours.

Not at all. Work is not the place for making private calls. Sounds like they interfere in her work. I'd tell your supervisor about it. If you make it sound more that you think she's not working than her being annoying, they will take it more seriously.

Wow. Start tossing antacids one at a time over the wall at him. I had a guy at an old job who would put headphones on and then proceed to sing. Terribly.