She sounds alike…
Hmmm… Our new librarian in training started today. I have a minor problem already, this new librarain sounds VERY simmilar to one of our student workers. So much so that I currently can’t ID her coming throgh the door.
HUH? You may ask. Let me `splain… No that would take to long, let me sum up… Between the door and my desk there is a section of cubicle wall. (The wall is there by my choice, I hate it when people walk in the room only to have the 1st person they see be me. I’m not a secretary, and they know that but they used to immediatly graviate to me. “oooh look someone I can talk to ad nauseum about my bladder problems…”) Over the years since I put the wall in place, I have developed the ability to identify my co-workers from their distinct sounds. Things like their voice, the weight and frequency of footfalls, the sound of their breathing, even the relative height of the sounds give mea clue who it is. This affords me the early warning to prepaire for stupidity in certain cases, and lets me know who’s around without actually having to make eye contact. This new person’s voice, and so far certain nervous manerisims in that voice, are almost identical to those of our student worker. The new person is even roughly the same height and build. This is very annoying to me… I think I’m going to have to request that one of them be made to wear a cowbell so I can tell them appart.
I know, I know… Neurotic much?
