Does your office have those people who come in and chit chat for no reason? The ones that NEVER leave, even when you have work to do? Even when you have tried to indicate that it is time to move on. They don't get the clue...you say "Well I had best get back to work." they say . We have a solution worked out for that here now (a few of us do anyhow) if one of the two big irritants seems to have waylaid someone, you go back to the cube and ring the phone in the cube that has been infected by the productivity leech. Then you keep the cubicle owner (rescuee) on the phone until the leech leaves. It works pretty well, but of course you must have an ally in the office to rescue you.