Open plan office annoyance

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Published on 2010-06-09T09:35:25Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 9:42 UTC
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Not a technical question, but related to IT. At the moment I work in the open plan office and the guy next to me is talking to himself while programming. It annoys my collegue and me so much that we are putting the earphones on with music volume set to max.

Does anyone know good and polite solution to shut him up?

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