An exercise in Classical Conditioning

I am very blessed to have my own office at work. However, it does not come without a few complaints...

1. I am one of only two people not to have a window. Reason: I was the second to last person hired. The person hired after me is the only other person not to have a window, and she got stuck right next door to the bathroom. However, I have learned that not having a window can be a blessing in disguise, as everyone who does have a window has no control over the temperature of their offices. All I have to do is adjust how open my door is to control the temp of my office, and usually, I don't even have to go that far.

2. I am directly across the hall from one of the managers in the office. He is in his mid forties, but I am pretty sure that his hearing is going! The sound on his computer is SO high as is the ringer on his phone. We have multi-line phones in every office. Therefore, whenever someone else's phone rings, the little red light on my phone illuminates. Combine that with the volume of the afore mentioned manager's phone and sometimes I mistake his ring for my own line ringing.

I can't fix issue number 1, but I am slowly fixing issue number 2. Once a week, when the manager is out of his office, and his phone rings, I quickly run across the hall and turn it down a notch. I have been keeping track of the volume. It started on a "9" and I got it down to a "6" without him noticing. Then we lost power in the building which somehow reset the ringers on all the phones - to LOUD. He did notice that the phone was entirely too loud and turned it down to about an "8." Now I am just waiting for him to be out of his office over the holidays so I can begin my Pavlovian experiment once more... bwahahahaha! My goal is to get it down to a "5" (for reference, mine is on a "3" and I even turn that down when I'm not listening to the radio).