Obsessive typist...part 3
Obsessive typist...part 3
(OP)
Well I got a temporary reprieve, she worked from home for 4 months. But now she's back, with same pattern as last 25 years: type/pound non-stop crazily at high speed for about half an hour, print, walk to printer, walk back with printout, type crazily another half hour or so, walk to recycle bin to throw away previous printout, walk back...repeat repeat repeat for 8 hours...been doing this for 25 years every day, no exaggeration. She types more in 5 minutes than any of us does all day. Or all week. No one knows what it could be. If you extrapolate this back 25 years..the amount is, well i don't know, staggering is not a big enough word. I don't think there is a word. What is the current size of the visible universe?
RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
thread655-1685220: Crazy keyboard pounder
thread655-1739245: Crazy keyboard pounder in next cubicle, part 2
Not to mention...
thread655-1604936: Knuckle cracking..flipflops..etc...
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So is this KB pounder number 2 now causing grief? Did #2 step up the pace to fill the void left by KB pounder #1?
Could their boss possibly be rating their performance on how many words they pumped out? Reminds me, once we had a call center that the reps were rated on how many calls they took. It was found that a couple people were hanging up on people mid call if it looked like it was going to take a while to solve their problem. Just remember, you get what you measure.
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Have fun.
---- Andy
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
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RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
1. Talk to typist and ask for a change
2. Talk to typist's boss and ask for a change
3. Ask to be moved away from the person
4. Start looking for a new job
5. Seek therapy to be able to cope
"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares."
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Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
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Have fun.
---- Andy
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
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It is - for the company to do on a company owned computer. Not for the OP that is analyzing the crazy typist.
Reminds me of when I got video of my work area when someone was stacking parts on my desk. It was a prank. But I got him via webcam hidden in a post-it note box. I started the recording every time I left my desk and I nailed him. Put the parts back on his desk early one morning. No more pranks. Probably could have gotten in trouble for recording an employee but it was better than talking to HR (like a whiner).
"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares."
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Have you tried asking other people around her what she's doing? If it truly is a disruptive amount of noise, others must be noticing it too. Most people like to talk about their jobs, especially if they have a crazy coworker. I find coworkers to be a good source of information about things like this.
Have you tried asking your boss? Just mention that she seems to be pounding out work at a furious pace and you were wondering what she was doing? Most bosses are pretty well in touch with the organization and the work it needs to perform. I find bosses usually like employees to want to know more about the organization and work that's being done.
The thing I don't understand is how you can work in the same office with someone for over 20 years, in close enough proximity to hear them pounding on a keyboard, and not know what they do for the company. I've worked at my place of employ for 24+ years and I know pretty much what every single person on this floor does. I have friends in other groups, so I know what people in other departments do. In the work that I do, I work with dozens, if not hundreds of people in departments across the company nationwide, and I know what they do. If someone really is flailing away at a keyboard like you describe, I guarantee you that you aren't the only one curious, and the odds are pretty good that someone else knows what's going on.
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"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares."
RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
They had a guy in the office who would use a CAD station to open a customer's file and send it to a plotter, then carry the plot into the next room and laboriously digitize the drawing into a different CAD system, using a magnifier to center a puck's crosshairs over line ends and intersections and cardinal points of curves.
That was his job, and he took it very seriously.
Maybe he knew he could be replaced by a cable and a little software.
;--
Maybe the keyboard pounders are copying lengthy legal documents from one server to another across an airgap.
... or just testing keyboards or cables or connectors.
I can't explain the printout.
... Or, maybe I can. Back in my programming days, I would print out an entire project's code on the backside of greenbar, bind it, review it, mark it up, and then revise the code and start over. I used a big box of fanfold pretty much every week, and shredded most of it. It wasn't spaghetti code, but the linkages were distant enough that it was not possible to see its interactions on a 80x24 terminal. I'd have killed for the multi- windowed graphical environments we take for granted today.
I was so hard on printers that I got samples of proposed new ones to try out for use in our products (which printed a page of results, mixed graphics and text, three times a minute 24/7 in a hospital lab). That was long before inkjets or lasers arrived. Three mixed pages a minute is asking a lot of an impact printer.
Maybe they're testing printers.
Right about now, I'd be rooting around in the recycle bin, just out of morbid curiosity.
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I asked about it already. Twice.
Have fun.
---- Andy
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.
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... for 25 years!!!!! I'm not sure what is more fascinating, the crazy keyboard pounder or the OP's complete lack of investigative skills!
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"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares."
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RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9A61L18_Kk
Just my 2ó
"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."
--Greg
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The camera was hidden in a post-it note box and it was connected via USB to a laptop. When I was going to leave my cubicle for more than 10 minutes, I would press the record button, CTRL ALT DEL and lock the workstation, then come back and check for any action. Nobody suspected anything because I was the computer guy and there were lots of computers on my desk at all times. I found out who it was. Still have the video on a backup DVD from that job.
BTW - I'm personally starting to believe that you are messing with us regarding this crazy typist.
"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares."
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RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
Does she have a boss? Does the boss know what she does?
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
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1) I thought she quit? "Apparently there is a god...the crazy kb pounder quit. Life is much more peaceful here now"
2) What kind of work does this person do? After 25 years, you don't know? Or is it a different person?
I'm really thinking that this may be a perception problem... or a great social experiment to see how we'd respond. Unless she has a mechanical keyboard, a pair of ear buds and some music would drown out most keyboards today (membrane style)
Maybe it's not the typist... perhaps you should really talk to a doctor about it... a serotonin or dopamine reuptake inhibitor may be in your future... no shame in that... it takes the edge off.
Just my $.02
"What the captain doesn't realize is that we've secretly replaced his Dilithium Crystals with new Folger's Crystals."
--Greg
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Or hang over her shoulder for a minute before greeting her and spy on her.
We need answers.
"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares."
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Have fun.
---- Andy
There is a great need for a sarcasm font.
RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares."
RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.
RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
"Living tomorrow is everyone's sorrow.
Modern man's daydreams have turned into nightmares."
RE: Obsessive typist...part 3
RE: Obsessive typist...part 3