I have a "series" on my private Facebook page I call "Overheard at Work". It's mostly about this girl who is 26 but acts like a 16-year-old from Legally Blonde. An example of something that prompted an entry was a 45-minute-long story about her mother shopping for furniture which featured such thrilling highlights…

Not to mention, the way in which they describe it here is just about the WORST way to approach HR. If I walked into my HR office and said "two other employees and I think so-and-so isn't pulling their weight", it doesn't matter how eloquently I put it: The first thing that they will think of is "wait, how do you know…

I've had that work too. Unfortunately, people are not always that reasonable. I've knocked on our neighbors door and they just rolled their eyes at me and turned the music up even louder.

Exactly. We tried the "human way" right away. That's just common sense. I wasn't feeling well and was trying to sleep, it was 9pm, their bass was shaking our whole apartment, making me feel even more nauseous. I threw on my bathrobe and asked her to turn the bass down (not the music, just the bass). She just…

I wish it did all the time.