Umm what? It's the first time that specific quote was used in this thread. The other "Office Space" quote:
Here's a simple solution - every time you hear her chewing gum, go ask her for a piece. By every time, I mean every time during a single day, every workday of the week. You don't even have to chew it at the office (I know you wouldn't want to tarnish your professional respect) - just take it and observe what brand of gum she chooses. One of the following scenarios will happen: 1) She will start running out of gum while at work because you have taken it all. Seeing this, she will stop bringing gum to work. 2) She will lie and tell you she's out of gum. Then you say "Okay, but I better not hear you chewing or else I coming back and asking again." I guarantee she will try to chew more quietly. 3) She will tell you to bring your own gum. To this you answer "I did" and pull out a pack of a different gum brand. Then say "But yours sounded so much tastier than mine." This will weird her out so much that she'll never be able to chew gum in your presence again.
Slowly walk up behind her, blind fold her, throw her in the back of your SUV, and relocate her to another office building.
Yes third time to reference the movie, but only the second time for that quote and it was only the first time it was posted in it's proper format (thanks RM95).
I think she is bored and doing it just to annoy *you* for pleasure. You don't seem like the kind to make friends with secretary's who are "dead weight." You screwed up, man. She is forever going to annoy you in simple ways, because you will forever be simple to annoy.
There are much better solutions to this problem. You need a win-win situation. Why don't you try giving her a quieter gum. Or maybe something else that will occupy her mouth (do not insert joke here). Then she doesn't know the difference and you get what you want. If you ask her politely to stop she loses and you win. That's not what you want. Think outside the box and you'll find yourself a better solution.
Interesting suggestion. Maybe you should buy her a jar of some type of hard candy. Then maybe she will eat that instead of chewing gum. Then when you see the jar getting empty, replenish it with a different type of candy. It could be a small price to pay for you keeping your sanity. CK Or you could just do like I did and buy the nasty flavored Harry Potter jelly beans and give her those.
As long as it's not breath mints. Those things create quite the ruckus in the pants of an annoying co-worker while (s)he walks around the office. It could annoy the boss.
Ok, I GOT IT !!! Simply start cutting loud farts right next to her cubicle, if she says something, just say, what fart? Or you could just politely ask her like I told ya. DD
Give her some of those huge jawbreakers....or better yet...fireball jawbreakers. Then, you can listen to her moan about how hot she is. A good jawbreaker will keep her occupado the whole day.
Are you at work, I thought you were such a productive ditto head, how are you going to criticize her when you waste your company's resources on a Rockets fan website. You started two threads this week.
