My boss threatened to install a camera in our work area because two idiots couldn't get along at shift exchange (6 minutes). One of the idiots called the union, but my boss already had his ducks in line with HR & nothing could be done about it. Things cooled down & now the budget is shot. I would have gladly accepted the camera if it got rid of at least one of the idiots, they have torpedoed our work group & now our positions are in jeopardy.

Hate it...Especially if something isn't going as planned...I don't like people watching me improvise.. Its not good for them or me:D

And football, or any other sport where people actually make noise?

my answer matches Moses'..

reading over my shoulder..i become a complete ass. even to my poor wife. i just lose control of my cool. weird.

oh..stand too close to me while i am doing my business at the grocery store cashier station?? oh, brace yourself for a sentence jumping out of my mouth in green font. one time this anxious old lady got up in my business while i was typing out my PIN# and swiping my Safeway card into the machine..i said too much. i got the ugliest stink eye from her. and we laughed!!

I work very well through distractions, like noise, inerruptions, etc. But someone standing there and watching me work actually pisses me off. It's not that I mind if they watch me, the problem is that I'm usually up to my neck in problems to solve and THIS person has absolutely nothing to do but WATCH me? GAHHHH!!!!!

angela

I work with someone always looking over "our " shoulders and recording voice and video of my work...goes with the job

I work on a trading desk so I'm usually involved in several different situations at the same time with all kinds of noise around me. But someone standing over me watching is a different animal. I usually turn around and ask them to help knowing that is the last thing they want to do.

People some times say to me, "I hope you don't mind it I watch."

To which I reply, "I would if I didn't know what I was doing. But since you don't know what I'm doing, go ahead."