Gosh, reading this made me thankful for where I work!! If people around me are annoying, I just close my office door and chat on BetterMost!! But hardly anyone is ever annoying, because we have way too much work to do.
I'm sure I annoy people a lot more than they annoy me. The funny thing is, all the offices on either side of me are empty because I make so much noise at work that people move their offices as far away from me as they can! A bunch of mining engineers visit me during the day and we are always yakking it up and laughing at risque jokes.