Clean the shit out of your ears!

[DrFaroohk]

This is another thing that's really annoying me. I said, THIS IS ANOTHER THING THAT'S REALLY ANNOYING ME.

Yeah, it's the fact that people seem to never be able to decipher what I'm saying. I said, it's the fact that people seem to never be able to decipher what I'm saying.

I speak in a loud enough voice and I speak clearly. I speak in a loud enough voice and I speak clearly. And yet everything I say is met with "What? Huh?" And yet everything I say is met with "What? Huh?"


(I'm not kidding, talking to some people is like this for me)

One big culprit is Little Jeffrey. He's 7 and he's just always so wound up in what he's doing he doesn't pay attention.

Mrs. Faroohk does it too because she calls me from work, wants to talk, but also is...ya know, WORKING. So everything I say back to her is registered through a field of distraction and I get to repeat everything I say.

Then it becomes my fault because OBVIOUSLY I don't speak up loud enough. However, upon increasing the volume of my voice, my bad attitude is pointed out. By the same person who just told me to speak up. Fuckers.

[AdminAssistant]

I have a hard time understanding what people are saying. It's not volume so much as it's enunciation and clarification.

[Andara Bledin]

Yeah, it's the fact that people seem to never be able to decipher what I'm saying.

If nobody can eve figure out what you're trying to say, you should really take a good long look at the common denominator in that equation.

^-.-^

[LexiaFira]

it also means that sometimes you have to go the extra effort of making sure the person you are talking to is paying attention to begin with OR
before evening beginning any convo start with saying i need your FULL attention

even with kids.
A suggestion that has worked for me
HEY! or kids name in a loud tone that gets attention but does not sound angry. HEY child name, I need you to pay attention this is important. or this means a big deal.


and i say this because I don't speak up enough because I figure if i can hear me why can the other person not hear me? but I also live in a house with people losing said hearing or have ear problems as is. and i often don't enunciate when excited or in a hurry.
i just learned last week why my half of my inlaws are deaf or have a history of it. (ear problems growing up part genetic part health issues)
but I've been dealing with having to repeat, or be told speak up or slow down and speak up ALL MY LIFE.
yes its frustrating beyond belief

[KellyHabersham]

I can relate to this somewhat - when I worked in the church office, there were a few people whom I hated to have to call because for whatever reason, they had a really hard time understanding me over the phone. (their end of the conversation would consist of things like "Who IS this?", "You're calling from WHAT church again?", or "Speak up, I can't hear/understand you!")

[Sleepwalker]

My boss won't speak up or enunciate and she gets pissed at me for telling her I didn't understand. You CAN repeat yourself, I CAN'T magically figure out instructions I didn't actually hear.

[BlaqueKatt]

and people wonder why I wear hearing protection at concerts(go ahead and make fun of me, I can still hear people in a normal speaking voice 20 feet or more away ) and at work and keep my mp3 player at a reasonable volume(defined as if I can't hear a normal speaking voice over it, it's too loud-normally at around 6-8 out of 25). I have wonderful hearing

[Lachrymose]

go ahead and make fun of me

Just kidding

[bara]

I make my neices and nephews look at me when I talk to them. Ive learned if they arent looking at me, they arent listening. Hearing maybe, but not listening to comprehend.

Also make my one niece take the damn mp3 player out of her ear, not turn it down, take it out. Its taking time, but Uncle Bara will teach those kids some manners.

[Sleepwalker]

and people wonder why I wear hearing protection at concerts(go ahead and make fun of me, I can still hear people in a normal speaking voice 20 feet or more away ) and at work and keep my mp3 player at a reasonable volume(defined as if I can't hear a normal speaking voice over it, it's too loud-normally at around 6-8 out of 25). I have wonderful hearing

I have excellent hearing as well. It does not help when a person's 'normal' speaking voice is barely above a whisper and they won't enunciate.

[AdminAssistant]

I don't have problems hearing people, generally. I have a hard time understanding what they're saying, especially if they're mumbling. Or, if you're Fiance, try to have a conversation while I'm washing dishes, by the washing machine/dryer when it's running, in another room, or brushing my teeth. Sorry, can't hear you over what I'm doing, you're going to have to wait.

[DrFaroohk]

I don't have problems hearing people, generally. I have a hard time understanding what they're saying, especially if they're mumbling. Or, if you're Fiance, try to have a conversation while I'm washing dishes, by the washing machine/dryer when it's running, in another room, or brushing my teeth. Sorry, can't hear you over what I'm doing, you're going to have to wait.

Lol I HATE THAT...especially when it should be obvious I won't be able to hear you. Don't even bother!

I always blamed it on my lack of charisma. I believe people subconsciously tune me out just...because. I have an annoying voice maybe, my tone, whatever, and even tho there's no reason they can't hear me and I speak very clearly, somehow my words fall on deaf ears.

[blas87]

You'd love working with Brown Noser.

You can have your head inside a machine and be tearing something apart and he'll still be yacking at you from another nearby machine, and get all impatient that you can't hear him rambling on about something stupid (usually how great he is). Even better when the machine is running really loudly and he's trying to ramble and you're paying more attention to your work. It's a sure fire way to get him pissed and see papers flying around and him stomping.

I love when that happens.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I often have to repeat myself to customers at work, not cuz I'm not speaking loudly/clearly, but cuz some people just don't bloody listen. Honestly, there's nothing more irritating than having to sort out a pump mixup after the event, just cuz some idiot was too busy contemplating their own navel rather than paying attention to me when I repeat back the pump number and price.

One woman even paid five times the amount she was supposed to, and when she came back said, "Why did you let me pay all that money?"

I replied, "I repeated it back to you twice."

Her reply? "Oh, I wasn't listening." -.-

Then, guess what, it's not my fault you paid for the wrong pump, moron!