I saw last night that someone responded to my comment, but I was too tired to read it thorouhgly and address it then and left it for today. I see now that that

I saw last night that someone responded to my comment, but I was too tired to read it thorouhgly and address it then and left it for today. I see now that that response is gone. I hope that, "rantiness" aside, I was and would address the topic in a respectful (at least, as regards the conversation here) and productive fashion. I do get... "agitated" about this topic, because for so long I was told that I was the one who needed to adjust and accommodate and "get used to" the status quo (ever noisier shared workspaces). And I tried. And tried. And tried.... It didn't get any easier for me. Even when I would deliberately pick out noisy cafes and try to work there in order to "train" myself. I wasn't asking for the world. Just for a quiet workspace. I didn't mind people interrupting me for a purpose. I just didn't want to spend my days tuning out activity that did not directly involve me. And much of that activity, in my particular environments, was not even work. It's very frustrating to be trying to be trying hard to get something done while your cubemate is engaged in their daily, extensive socializing. Let those who do such rise or fall on their own merits. I'd rather stay out of that. Just don't disrupt my own work, while you're at it. And don't tell me to "get with the program", when I finally point it out.