What are the most common complaints people have about cubicle-mates?
The most common complaints about the people that work around them in the office, cubicle-mates I call them, is if they use speaker phones instead of using headsets. That's a big complaint. And then if a cubicle mate in the office has music on while they are on hold – that's really annoying. People clipping their nails in the office cubicle, or having deep coughs in the office cubicle instead of going in the washroom, or people having fights with their spouses on the phone are also big annoyances. Or people calling creditors and trying to pay their bills on the phone, or people that eat in their cubicle and it draws bugs, are big complaints. Or another common complaint in the office is when somebody that's popular and people come by to visit that person end up staying for longer than three minutes instead of taking it down the hall. People slurping coffee, people making extraneous noises that aren't necessary, including listening to headline news or something on their radio or computer instead of wearing a headset. Headsets are very important in office cubicles. Also, people having dead plants and indeed there are so many things that people do, such as having too many stuffed animals, or whatever the corporate culture allows can be annoying for people that are trying to be professional. Being interrupted would be my number one pick of annoyances with cubicle mates because you are vulnerable to foot traffic that walks by your crew, and people trying to get eye-contact with you, which is very distracting if you're on deadline and you're trying to have some privacy.
