This is bothering me: my office neighbor. I'm an HR specialist, and I used to have my own office where I worked alone. Then I was away for two years, and during that time they renovated: an accountant was placed in the HR office. Due to circumstances I returned to my previous job, and now a different accountant is in charge. I'm not a confrontational person; she's basically okay. We stay neutral — we're not friends, but we talk. Still, every single day she watches who comes and goes and where people are sent; she tells me everything and runs around with the attendance sheet reporting colleagues who go out to smoke. We all see it, and she tries to record it as an absence from the workplace. I've told her a million times that it doesn't bother me as long as everyone does their work, but she doesn't listen: who walks past the office — why does she need to know? — and she keeps saying the word “attendance sheet,” as if we're going to punish people, even though we don't make those decisions. It's getting under my skin. Colleagues look at our office like it's a place where everyone behaves like idiots. I don't want to argue with her, but I can't keep putting up with this. She doesn't respond to polite words: it's not her business or her responsibility — she sits, calculates payroll, and files reports.