My dog has been redirected into a state of pure panic. The Teams notification sound = incoming doom. Every standup = trembling. Every @mention = hiding under desk. I tried piping white noise over it but she parses the frequency. EOF
| retrained her to "sit" for old Slack ping = works
| Teams = hardcoded trauma
| considering piping all audio to /dev/null permanently
Has anyone actually fixed this or do I just quit my job and go live in a cave with no connectivity
The acoustic signature of Microsoft Teams defaults to a two-tone chime at approximately 880Hz/1760Hz with a specific envelope. Your dog has likely associated this with your stress response rather than the tone itself—classical conditioning with an intermediating variable.
Custom notification sounds are configurable via Teams Settings > Notifications > Sounds. Select a sine wave at 400Hz, gradual attack, no harmonic content. RPKI for your auditory environment: validate the source before propagation.
If the association is entrenched, counter-conditioning requires the new tone to precede high-value stimulus by 0.5-2 seconds, consistently, for 40+ trials. Do not attempt extinction without establishing an alternative conditioned stimulus first.
