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How do you deal with cackling hens in the office space?

90% of the time it does. It especially does if you consider people as disposable. The focus should be on being an annoyance, not on intimidation. Intimidation puts people in fight mode. LEGALLY being an ongoing annoyance is how to get what you want in exchange for going away. Look at how well it works for bill collectors. Learn to wear people down.

weaver2 said:
Oh yeah, being adversarial always works well.
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SDET said:
90% of the time it does. It especially does if you consider people as disposable. The focus should be on being an annoyance, not on intimidation. Intimidation puts people in fight mode. LEGALLY being an ongoing annoyance is how to get what you want in exchange for going away. Look at how well it works for bill collectors. Learn to wear people down.
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I don't suppose you've ever considered that the women's annoying cackling is getting them something they want, maybe getting whining old misogynists fired?
 
SDET said:
I have an answer in mind, but I want to see other's answers first before I chime in.

Scenario: Imagine retracing your steps through 15,000 lines of code as a final verification to make sure you haven't missed handling any application state. There's not only all those lines of code, but all the entity relationships.

Half way through these hens start cackling things like "My husband had better have done the dishes when I get home or someone is sleeping on the couch." That's just an example, but it can be any mindless non-work-related conversation.

What would you do to remedy such a scenario?
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Get a wolf as a pet.
 
I suspect that some do that kind of trolling. I remember one woman that made it a point of walking around loudly proclaiming "I broke the glass ceiling", rubbing in the noses of non-managerial programmers. I'm guessing she made team lead or something. She was obviously trying to fan resentment. I would hope that such "whining old misogynists" would have sense enough to play their hands right and let formal complaints and lawsuits do their talking for them.

It was almost like she was saying to some of the younger men "Nyah nyah nyah, you are stuck and I'm not."

weaver2 said:
I don't suppose you've ever considered that the women's annoying cackling is getting them something they want, maybe getting whining old misogynists fired?
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SDET said:
I suspect that some do that kind of trolling. I remember one woman that made it a point of walking around loudly proclaiming "I broke the glass ceiling", rubbing in the noses of non-managerial programmers. I'm guessing she made team lead or something. She was obviously trying to fan resentment. I would hope that such "whining old misogynists" would have sense enough to play their hands right and let formal complaints and lawsuits do their talking for them.

It was almost like she was saying to some of the younger men "Nyah nyah nyah, you are stuck and I'm not."
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And what is it your actions are saying? I don't suppose you think your attitude is as annoying as the cackling hens.
 
SDET said:
I have an answer in mind, but I want to see other's answers first before I chime in.

Scenario: Imagine retracing your steps through 15,000 lines of code as a final verification to make sure you haven't missed handling any application state. There's not only all those lines of code, but all the entity relationships.

Half way through these hens start cackling things like "My husband had better have done the dishes when I get home or someone is sleeping on the couch." That's just an example, but it can be any mindless non-work-related conversation.

What would you do to remedy such a scenario?
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What do you do?

Slap them with a sexual harassment complaint... sleeping on the couch implies sexually depriving the man.

See if you can get them fired... that is what you do.
 
OrphanSlug said:
Learn how to focus on what you are doing, and quit allowing yourself to come up with the umpteenth reason to dislike women.
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Dude, they are chattering like hens... that is not professional and something must be done about it.
 
weaver2 said:
Find a job with all male employees: coal mining, ditch digging, septic tank pumping, conservative Christian preaching
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There are jobs that are all male?
 
SDET said:
I have an answer in mind, but I want to see other's answers first before I chime in.

Scenario: Imagine retracing your steps through 15,000 lines of code as a final verification to make sure you haven't missed handling any application state. There's not only all those lines of code, but all the entity relationships.

Half way through these hens start cackling things like "My husband had better have done the dishes when I get home or someone is sleeping on the couch." That's just an example, but it can be any mindless non-work-related conversation.

What would you do to remedy such a scenario?
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I wear headphones.

One person in our office has an oversized ego and loud annoying voice. Did I say he must actually get paid to talk becasue he never shuts up. I am amazed how loud I must set the volume on my computer to drown him out.
 
SDET said:
I have an answer in mind, but I want to see other's answers first before I chime in.

Scenario: Imagine retracing your steps through 15,000 lines of code as a final verification to make sure you haven't missed handling any application state. There's not only all those lines of code, but all the entity relationships.

Half way through these hens start cackling things like "My husband had better have done the dishes when I get home or someone is sleeping on the couch." That's just an example, but it can be any mindless non-work-related conversation.

What would you do to remedy such a scenario?
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How do women deal with angry misogynists who are terrified of women? More creepy threads from you....
 
Wouldn't a cash settlement be more beneficial? I would rather have money in my pocket.

Bodhisattva said:
What do you do?

Slap them with a sexual harassment complaint... sleeping on the couch implies sexually depriving the man.

See if you can get them fired... that is what you do.
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beefheart said:
How do women deal with angry misogynists who are terrified of women? More creepy threads from you....
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Best to get yourself an uneducated foreigner with little to no English and low self-esteem. She won't even know what misogynist means.. .
 
SDET said:
That's useful up to perhaps two hours per day. Ears need to get air. You could get open headphones, but everyone else around you hears what you're listening to. Open headphones would be an interesting passive-aggressive solution.
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Well then, stick an ice pick in each ear - you won't be distracted by "cackling", your ears will still get air, and you won't have to annoy others like you claim they are annoying you. Problem solved. :mrgreen:
 
If the headphones do not work, another thing I do is perform a breathing exercise. I breath in deep and I let the air exit my mouth with a very SSSSSSHHHHHHH sound to it. after about the third or fourth time, it is usually enough to interrupt the chatter and they look at me like I have interrupted them. At that point, I politely say "I am sorry, did I interrupt your work" They usually realize that it was they who were interrupting the area and stop or move to a more appropriate cackling area.
 
Bodhisattva said:
Best to get yourself an uneducated foreigner with little to no English and low self-esteem. She won't even know what misogynist means.. .
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Because a self loathing wimp who is terrified of women is such a prize.
 
beefheart said:
Because a self loathing wimp who is terrified of women is such a prize.
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Uneducated, low self-esteem, no English skills and desperate. That is the woman that you want.That is why you get her from an impoverished 3rd World Country... she thinks she is being saved but you have not intention of making her anything other than a servant.
 
charliebrown said:
If the headphones do not work, another thing I do is perform a breathing exercise. I breath in deep and I let the air exit my mouth with a very SSSSSSHHHHHHH sound to it. after about the third or fourth time, it is usually enough to interrupt the chatter and they look at me like I have interrupted them. At that point, I politely say "I am sorry, did I interrupt your work" They usually realize that it was they who were interrupting the area and stop or move to a more appropriate cackling area.
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and the SSSSSSHHHHHHH is also a great command to give to the cackling hens...
 
Bodhisattva said:
Uneducated, low self-esteem, no English skills and desperate. That is the woman that you want.That is why you get her from an impoverished 3rd World Country... she thinks she is being saved but you have not intention of making her anything other than a servant.
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That is truly pathetic.
 
If the business is not zoned for agricultural use, the hens should be removed.
 
So tell me, are there lots of vacas in vacaville ?

RobertU said:
If the business is not zoned for agricultural use, the hens should be removed.
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Bodhisattva said:
Uneducated, low self-esteem, no English skills and desperate. That is the woman that you want.That is why you get her from an impoverished 3rd World Country... she thinks she is being saved but you have not intention of making her anything other than a servant.
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Yep, the OP really suffers from the biggest inferiority complex I've ever seen. What a sad and loveless life.
 
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