"PC Load Letter"? What the fuck does that mean?

I recently went back to work full time.  After 7 months away from the joys of sitting in a cubicle surrounded by people who don't always have a clue, it's taking me a while to get used to the little annoyances I've been missing.

So, here are a few rules I'd like to propose.  Nothing earth-shattering, just stuff that would make me a lot happier.  I don't do this shit to you so please don't do it to me (sorta like the golden rule if it had been written by Jim Caviezel [link shamelessly stolen from Dave, we still need those WW Jim Caviezel Do? t-shirts] ).

1. If you want to use your speakerphone, close your office door.  Only the truly privileged have offices around here so make use of your fourth wall.



2. If you absolutely cannot put your cellphone on vibrate (which I'd argue about but I've given up on this one), make sure you take the damn thing with you when you leave your desk. None of us wants to hear your obnoxious ringtone every 3 minutes because your wife, husband, kid, mother, or dog's cousin's chiropodist has some emergency question about the color of your new drapes.



3. Turn down your system sounds or turn off everything but system errors and new mail alerts. I don't need to be able to tell you got a new AIM message from 40 feet away.



4. If I have my headphones on in my cube, treat it as you would if I had an office and the door were closed. I don't understand why this one is hard.



5. If you need stress relief get a hand exerciser, don't punish your keyboard. You answering your email should not sound like the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan.