Asking a question: a controdiction?

[Beth Agnew]

Of course, any "Do Not Disturb" message is irrelevant if the people you 
are working with choose not to obey it. While working to a particularly 
nasty deadline, I was head-down 100% concentrating on the writing and 
people kept interrupting me no matter how many ways I tried to express 
that I didn't want to be bothered. The kicker was when one fellow walked 
over the traffic cones, ducked under the bright red barrier tape, 
ignored that I had noise-canceling headphones on, and tapped me on the 
shoulder to ask if I had gotten his e-mail. I dare not repeat my 
response to him, but let's just say my years as a sailor gave me a broad 
choice of words.

I finally had to resort to working the midnight shift until that 
deadline, because that left me the only person in the building.
--Beth

Janice Gelb wrote:

>Raj Machhan wrote:
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>> Or else you can have
>>a paper pinned to the more noticeable side of your cubicle that puts across
>>the Do Not Disturb message politely or better still with humour. Maybe
>>Techwirlers can suggest some humorous messages.
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>Here you go, already made up:
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