yesterday afternoon, my boss called us all into a quick meeting. apparently, the marketing ppl that sit one aisle over filed a complaint against us to HR!!! they complained that we were too loud and they couldn't do their work with all our noise. wtf?! my manager was pissed that they went straight to HR instead of confronting her or our director. what is this, 3rd grade? we were all stunned. i mean, we are pretty loud at times, but would it have been so hard to just come over and ask us to keep it down? we're not children, we're adults thank you! their main complaint was some conference call they were on where they couldn't hear what the other person was saying. hello, you sit in a cubicle, there's a lot of noise around you! that's why we have small conference rooms with phones in them!! and then i guess they heard us laughing when we were in our "meeting" and complained to HR (again) that we weren't taking this seriously. first of all, how do they know what we were laughing about, and second, what the hell is their problem? so i guess they had a meeting with HR this afternoon, and our HR rep is supposed to get back with my boss to tell her what happened. and this morning my boss overheard them mocking us when me and J were complimenting K on her outfit. this is all just so ridiculous. so now everytime we see those losers we all just glare and give them the evil stink eye. :P i have never experienced this level of immaturity in a professional work environment. i think they're just jealous that we all get along so well! ha! and the weird thing is, they're in the marketing department, you'd think they would WANT to communicate with ppl!!! so now we're all practically whispering to each other when we talk. so f---ing ridiculous...