Question posed to a boy in the next cubicle. I’d never had any interaction with him before. He was rarely in the office at all, because he was a roving network support technician.
“Hi, would you mind using your handset on your conference calls instead of using speakerphone?”
“That’s not an option”.
“But it looks like your hands are free. It doesn’t seem like it would be a big deal and the rest of us wouldn’t have to listen to the calls. They’re pretty long and…”
With a look like he could have killed me, “I REPEAT: It’s not an option.”
And as threw my arms in the air in defeat and walked away, I heard, “Bitch”.
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