Do you work with someone who won't shut up?

[Leafar the Lost]

I want to start a thread about people you work with who will...not...be...quiet...ever. I am writing about one coworker I know, who I shall give the fake name of Sarah. When I say she won't stop talking throughout her work day, I mean that literally. I could write paragraphs about it, but let me give just one example.

Recently, I asked for a day off; my request consisted of one sentence, and it was emailed. Sarah also asked for a day off, but she had to ask the manager in person, and the requests was probabaly at least a page of text. You see, she had to tell the manager why she needed the day off (due to some doctor visit for her adult daughter) and also tell the back story about her daughter's medical history and all the troubles she has had getting doctor's visits, and it had to be a particular day, and that was all before the actual request.

I really could go on, but let me stop and hear some comments first...

 

[KevanG]

I work with lots of them but then again I work in a call center. It's the job.

 

[Dave McFly]

I work with this one guy that not only does not shut up he tends to think he is still talking to you when you walk away and it looks as if he is talking to an imaginary friend creeps me out.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

There's this guy at my job who follows you and hovers. He's a nice guy but it's annoying.

 

[Teelie]

Not currently but in the past I have worked with some people who I honestly am not sure how they could talk so much and never get a sore throat from it.

 

[Leafar the Lost]

Not currently but in the past I have worked with some people who I honestly am not sure how they could talk so much and never get a sore throat from it.

I agree. I have a neighbor who sits outside of her apartment all day talking to people very loudly. I mean this literally. When I leave for work she is there and when I return she is there. Its very strange.

 

[kane9321]

Omg yes....she just wont shut the **** up

 

[PyroChamber]

Pretty much a majority of the people I work with, I'm literally the only quiet one.

 

[MadVillainy]

My boss.

He's a family friend and it's usually just me and him in the office. Sometimes his wife and kids are there

He's very whiny and his jokes are terrible. If you don't give at least a polite laugh he goes on and on how you're "too serious" and then he thinks you can't take a joke or don't know humor. Most of the time I do give a polite life or smile, but after long hours I just don't have the energy sometimes.

And he's pretty anti semetic. Not slurs, but still. It got to the point where I had to say something

Very ego centric and cocky especially for someone who is/has been a self professed nerd/geek for all his life.
He makes it like he's a great graphic designer but really he's nothing special. I mean he's better than me, but I didn't study graphic design. His skills are basically limited to doing stuff that look like they belong on Club flyers.
He also thinks every girl wants to hook up with him or was flirting with him.
And he's a perfectionist to the point where it hurts business



TL;DR: My boss.

 

[Leafar the Lost]

My boss.

He's a family friend and it's usually just me and him in the office. Sometimes his wife and kids are there

He's very whiny and his jokes are terrible. If you don't give at least a polite laugh he goes on and on how you're "too serious" and then he thinks you can't take a joke or don't know humor. Most of the time I do give a polite life or smile, but after long hours I just don't have the energy sometimes.

And he's pretty anti semetic. Not slurs, but still. It got to the point where I had to say something

Very ego centric and cocky especially for someone who is/has been a self professed nerd/geek for all his life.
He makes it like he's a great graphic designer but really he's nothing special. I mean he's better than me, but I didn't study graphic design. His skills are basically limited to doing stuff that look like they belong on Club flyers.
He also thinks every girl wants to hook up with him or was flirting with him.
And he's a perfectionist to the point where it hurts business



TL;DR: My boss.

He sounds like a racist jerk. Is it possible for you to quit your job?

 

[Blind_Lawyer]

I think I am that co-worker

 

[regwec]

Does anyone else have to work with someone who has a personal anecdote, which is almost certainly spurious, to relate to absolutely every occurrence?

 

[Leafar the Lost]

I think I am that co-worker

If so, then why can't you be quiet? It is annoying.

 

[Leafar the Lost]

Does anyone else have to work with someone who has a personal anecdote, which is almost certainly spurious, to relate to absolutely every occurrence?

My coworker "Sarah" will enter any conversation that occurs near her with some anecdote/story about her life.

 

[Blind_Lawyer]

If so, then why can't you be quiet? It is annoying.

I've always had this thing about annoying people. It's fun.

 

[O_B_Juan]

I work with a lady who talks all day and when she runs out of subject matter, she reads us the news and weather and every other dumb story off the internet verbatim. The high school sports scores are especially annoying.

 

[Silvermoth]

I work with a girl who gets high on caffeine and then returns to her desk buzzing with energy. My job is data entry so she gets bored and makes a nuisance of herself a bit because she is so high on sugar and has to sit still for long periods of time.

She's been doing this job long enough now to know not to have so much sugar she can't sit still or stop gabbling. She's alright usually but when she gets that hyped up its super annoying

 

[jonathancrane]

Myself. I'm kind of like Richie Tozier from IT...beep, beep.

 

[zeroapoc]

I talk to people all day long as part of my job. So someone not shutting up is largely irrelevant to me.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

No, but if I did, I would stab my ears.

 

[James]

Good thread!

There's a couple of guys at the place I work, but one guy has a particularly annoying habit of chatting to people when they can't leave. He'll stand in a doorway or chat to people who are working a production line so they can't move away. I drive a forklift, so his trick was to hold the side of the vehicle so it was unsafe to drive away.

Fortunately, unlike most people, I gave him a good dose of stand-offish type attitude for a while and now he won't say more than "Good morning, how's it going?" to me. Everyone else is still doomed though.

Does anyone else have to work with someone who has a personal anecdote, which is almost certainly spurious, to relate to absolutely every occurrence?

There's one, definitely, but he's a really nice guy. It does seem strange that no matter what the topic is, he has someway to relate to it from his life. Some people think he tells lies, but I just get the impression he's lead a more interesting life than most.

 

[Immortalfire]

Morg.

 

[Morg]

Morg.

Since when my waving hands consider talking?

 

[ThePhantasm]

I want to start a thread about people you work with who will...not...be...quiet...ever. I am writing about one coworker I know, who I shall give the fake name of Sarah. When I say she won't stop talking throughout her work day, I mean that literally. I could write paragraphs about it, but let me give just one example.

Recently, I asked for a day off; my request consisted of one sentence, and it was emailed. Sarah also asked for a day off, but she had to ask the manager in person, and the requests was probabaly at least a page of text. You see, she had to tell the manager why she needed the day off (due to some doctor visit for her adult daughter) and also tell the back story about her daughter's medical history and all the troubles she has had getting doctor's visits, and it had to be a particular day, and that was all before the actual request.

I really could go on, but let me stop and hear some comments first...

Once I was trapped in my cubicle by what I call "hard talkers." There was no way to escape easily as this large person was blocking the exit. After hearing a lengthy story about their latest kidney stone (and the removal process in graphic detail) I realized I only had one way to survive.

I was trapped. I had to gnaw my arm off to escape.

Once I realized the desperateness of my situation, I set about my task with determination. I began gnawing voraciously, slobbering and growling as I did so to "hype myself up" for the more painful parts to come. My coworker for the first time in 90 minutes stopped the story and said something like "are you okay." By the time I had begun to bleed, he was backing away screaming and flailing his arms. ("That's another story for his repertoire", I thought with a grim sense of humor, congratulating myself on my ability to recall vocabulary words like "repertoire" while chewing through my own skin)

With the coworker out of the doorway, I knew I had a limited amount of time to escape that small cavern that was my cubicle before the "flood" of people washed in to see what all the fuss was about. Detaching myself from my arm, I lunged after my coworker, still snarling and ripping my shirt a bit as if I were a zombie. Unable to run away fast enough, he fell on the floor and began crawling across the carpet. It was quite a funny sight, as he himself admitted (though not until years later and after considerable counseling)

Having escaped with my life, I then returned home to change my identity and look for a new job, preferably one without any "hard talkers." My arm has suffered enough.

 

[Immortalfire]

Since when my waving hands consider talking?

Shaddup!