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A colleague of mine wore noise-cancelling headphones every single day. People joked that she hated us. I assumed she was just focused.View quoted post on X
One afternoon I tapped her shoulder to ask about a spreadsheet. She flinched so hard her coffee went across the desk.
The headphones slid off. No music came out of them.
"Sorry," she whispered, already reaching for tissues. "The office is very loud for me."
Ordinary sounds, she explained: the printer, the phones, someone chewing two desks away. Her head would pound for hours afterwards. For two years she'd said nothing, because she was afraid of being labelled difficult.
"What would help?" I asked.
She thought about it for a long moment, as if no one had ever asked.
"A desk away from the printer. Or somewhere quiet, even for ten minutes."
The next day I asked our manager about the unused supply cupboard on the second floor.
He laughed. "We're running a business, not a spa."
I went back to my desk with my face burning. I told myself I'd tried.
But that evening...
