Going Grr ...

I have gone an extra mile to keep away from people who lose their temper easily. I really hate witnessing someone's temper firsthand, and more importantly, being the cause for the outburst. Wherever you go, you are bound to come across people who really lose their cool and ultimately turn out to be an embarrassment to those around him and to himself. I am sure later, while thinking about his reaction, he might feel really silly and might give anything to turn time back. I mean, how angry and irritated can a person really get? Right?
At home, most of us are mild mannered creatures. Cut to workplace. Many evolve into screaming, swearing monsters. What makes them see red while at their workplace?
Curiosity piqued, I asked a lot of my friends about this interesting topic. And this is what they had to say …
1) “Your first day at work. You turn on your computer and check whether you can chat via gmail. You can't because it has been disabled. You accept that. You move on. Days later, you catch the guy sitting right next to you chatting on gmail. You ask how did he manage to enable the service. He replies, “Aren't you supposed to be working?”'
2) “Is someone crying? What is that horrible noise? Oh no! It is something worse! 'That horrible noise' is coming from this guy, who sits right opposite you, humming a song in a voice that can only be described as like the noise that a cat makes when skinned alive - something that does not even sound remotely human. For all that torture, stuffing that paperweight down his throat seem to be polite enough to say “Stop it!”'
3) “It's lunch time. Ah, peace. Not for long. The men come trooping in with huge lunch boxes. Amongst snickers and laughs, the men start chomping on their food. The noise made by their chewing is enough to bring the roof down. The noise starts echoing in your ears and distress signals are sent to your brain. What you won't give to be able to ask the men, “Sir, have you bought stones for lunch?”'
4) “You have an important client to talk to pronto. You are sharing your office phone with a person who seems to have the phone receiver surgically attached to her ear. You calm yourself thinking your colleague might be making an important call. Instead, you hear snippets of their conversation … “So, what is for lunch?”, “Can I borrow your read skirt for the party today?”, “I saw this movie recently …”, “Can you book tickets for my trip to India in the year 2010?”… Aaagghhh …”
5) “You are concentrating hard while working. But obviously, the occupants of the adjacent cubicle are out to 'par-tay'. They holler, laugh AND have their mobile phone's ringtone set to the maximum volume.”
6) “You always find your stationary missing from your desk. You go hunting for it and find it on the desk of colleagues with sheepish grins. Forcefully smiling, you are aghast at seeing your pens, pencils, erasers … or rather, whatever is left of them. Few hours later, you borrow a pen from the same person and before you use it, you hear a sweet voice say, “Oh. Hey! Return the stapler once your done, please. Just reminding!”