RE: Cubicle Noise Canceling (WAS: A PDA in every pocket?)

["Claire Conant" <Claire -dot- Conant -at- Digeo -dot- com>]

I use headphones to mask bothersome conversations and suppress my
occasional urges to jump up on my desk and tell them all to be quiet
(put nicely)! But sometimes I just had to get up and walk away from the
desk when even headphones wouldn't drown out the loud slurping of the
cubi-neighbor's tea drinking every morning at 11:30 - just like
clockwork. (I no longer have that neighbor.)

My last company the problem was unattended ringing cell phones. But then
it was a wireless phone company. Still, it made for distraction when
needing to focus. 

Now, I'm fortunate. I have a window with a view (of a parking lot and
trees, but still a view) and a TV on my desk. So I'm not complaining
very loudly at all anymore. 

<Kenneth -dot- Nuckols -at- mybrighthouse -dot- com> wrote:

> What do most writers who have to compete with
> "animated" phone
> conversations in the work environment do to compete
> with the noise? Are
> headphones now generally considered "acceptable"
> accoutrements for the
> writer in a cubicle environment? 



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