White noise for #2?

I found these comments on this hilarious site:

I love when people around me (we don’t have cubicles either) listen to their conference calls on speakerphone because they would rather ruin my afternoon than hold the phone to their ear…

Count your blessings– we don’t even have cubicles. There is no conversation that goes un-heard, bodily functions are shared, and office slacking requires some very high-tech and creative solutions.

How about some kind of background noise in the bathroom as well. Is anyone else just a little bit uncomfortable when you’re enjoying a morning dump, someone else doing the same, and it is completely silent?

Awesome article. My employer has one of these white noise systems – I have one of the bee-hive looking things that broadcast over my cube. It’s barely noticeable, and you still hear conversations and stuff, but then one day it went out – holy crap does it make a difference! When it went out it was like that scene from Bruce Almighty where he starts hearing all the prayers in his head (anyone?)…White noise saves my sanity…

Cubicles are an invention of the devil. They should be soundproofed. I bet it would even be cost-effective: consider cost of sound=proofing vs. cost of lost productivity. No, I don’t want to hear the guy over there’s phone conversation, and I don’t want random coworkers to be able to hear me when I give a credit card number out on the phone when doing a business purchase. Or for that matter, when I’m talking to clients.

Okay, lazy conference calls and taking a dump made my eyes water.  If I weren’t already convinced of white noise and sound masking systems, I would be now.