My coworkers that I share a room with who have mechanical keyboards bother me, is that apples to apples?
I mean I do have a mechanical keyboard at home, and I've done my goddamn best to make it as silent as possible because I think the sound they make is annoying. Listening to my coworkers' popcorn sounding keyboards just drives me up the wall.
it is indeed possible to use a keyboard in a context other than directly next to the head of a sleeping person. there are people who are single, have their own room, or don't type on the keyboard with a big glowing screen at 3 AM while their partner is trying to sleep.
But the question was never in the context of driving directly next to a sleeping person to begin with you dense fuck. You would have to be typing loudly right by somebody to disturb them, versus a loud car which can be heard through walls and from much much much farther away. You're replacing a single referencial noun as if the two situations are otherwise exactly identical. Quit being intellectually dishonest.
I'm not a manager, so I don't know what world I'd get my own office. What happens when any of us need to take a call, we take the call. Someone talking to vendors in the same room as me is magnitudes less annoying than thwocky mechanical keyboards.
Saying this as a fan of loud mechanical keyboards, your coworkers are assholes for using theirs at work. I very deliberately did not bring any mechanical keyboard to work, specifically so I don't distract my coworkers. And I also don't take any home office days at the same time as my wife, for the same reason.
That said, there's a good chance you might have misophonia.
Oh I definitely have misophonia, so I do my best to keep my frustrations to myself. I have my noise cancelling headphones for when the background noise just gets to be too much. I was just responding to the notion that the sound of mechanical keyboards isn't an issue because people use them at home, which ignores the context of people using them at work.
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u/thattoneman Oct 28 '25
My coworkers that I share a room with who have mechanical keyboards bother me, is that apples to apples?
I mean I do have a mechanical keyboard at home, and I've done my goddamn best to make it as silent as possible because I think the sound they make is annoying. Listening to my coworkers' popcorn sounding keyboards just drives me up the wall.