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I work with this one elderly coworker who is literally a chatterbox.
He loves talking regardless who it is - clients, coworkers, random telemarketing guys, recruiters, you name it, he doesn't need a reason to start blabbing. He tells them all his life story. Even the recruiter calling for an ex-employee reference gets to listen to what he did over the weekend.
He just walks into my cube every time he is bored and starts some random conversation out of the blue regardless I am busy or not. Today he did the same while I was working on something really important for the client. I told him I am busy and will continue the topic at a later time. He will leave and in 10 minutes he is back with a different story. I repeated the same, he was back in another 15 minutes and started blabbing again. Finally, I told him that I am really busy, I need to focus, so quit interrupting me and he just stormed out.
How do you deal with this kind of people at workplace?
I work for a small business company with only 6 employees, so it's hard to avoid these type of personalities nor argue with them. But unless you are straight out on their face this guy won't gets it. If I give him indirect clue that he's being annoying, he immediately asks - What does that suppose to mean? I deal with this on a daily basis.
We don't have HR and the boss lives out of state. So anything goes in the office and he's senior employee here though most of the time he doesn't have a clue what's going on with any work related issues.
colleagues behavior unprofessional
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I work with this one elderly coworker who is literally a chatterbox.
He loves talking regardless who it is - clients, coworkers, random telemarketing guys, recruiters, you name it, he doesn't need a reason to start blabbing. He tells them all his life story. Even the recruiter calling for an ex-employee reference gets to listen to what he did over the weekend.
He just walks into my cube every time he is bored and starts some random conversation out of the blue regardless I am busy or not. Today he did the same while I was working on something really important for the client. I told him I am busy and will continue the topic at a later time. He will leave and in 10 minutes he is back with a different story. I repeated the same, he was back in another 15 minutes and started blabbing again. Finally, I told him that I am really busy, I need to focus, so quit interrupting me and he just stormed out.
How do you deal with this kind of people at workplace?
I work for a small business company with only 6 employees, so it's hard to avoid these type of personalities nor argue with them. But unless you are straight out on their face this guy won't gets it. If I give him indirect clue that he's being annoying, he immediately asks - What does that suppose to mean? I deal with this on a daily basis.
We don't have HR and the boss lives out of state. So anything goes in the office and he's senior employee here though most of the time he doesn't have a clue what's going on with any work related issues.
colleagues behavior unprofessional
edited 10 mins ago
DarkCygnus
39.7k1887169
asked 1 hour ago
yonikawayonikawa
1147
2
Do you want an answer or is this just a rant?
– thursdaysgeek
1 hour ago
1
@thursdaysgeek - I want to know if I addressed the situation correctly by telling him not to interrupt me up straight. I know it will happen again and was wondering if there is a better way to handle it next time.
– yonikawa
1 hour ago
1
Someone once wrote: "No one is born as a genius.You learn from experience and mistakes and you move on.Unless your maturity level makes you consider yourself the ideal person in the world who don't make mistakes, doesn't need anyone else's help(which obviously reflects from your statement), you don't have to put your foot down or talk down on a coworker who needs help and unfortunately thinks you are the person to ask for." I can't remember who that was...
– Joe Strazzere
51 mins ago
2
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the extreme lack of respect and basic human decency.
– bruglesco
40 mins ago
2
I did some edits to the post, to remove the not-so-nice words and phrases, so readers can focus on answering the question/helping instead.
– DarkCygnus
9 mins ago
|
show 2 more comments
I work with this one elderly coworker who is literally a chatterbox.
He loves talking regardless who it is - clients, coworkers, random telemarketing guys, recruiters, you name it, he doesn't need a reason to start blabbing. He tells them all his life story. Even the recruiter calling for an ex-employee reference gets to listen to what he did over the weekend.
He just walks into my cube every time he is bored and starts some random conversation out of the blue regardless I am busy or not. Today he did the same while I was working on something really important for the client. I told him I am busy and will continue the topic at a later time. He will leave and in 10 minutes he is back with a different story. I repeated the same, he was back in another 15 minutes and started blabbing again. Finally, I told him that I am really busy, I need to focus, so quit interrupting me and he just stormed out.
How do you deal with this kind of people at workplace?
I work for a small business company with only 6 employees, so it's hard to avoid these type of personalities nor argue with them. But unless you are straight out on their face this guy won't gets it. If I give him indirect clue that he's being annoying, he immediately asks - What does that suppose to mean? I deal with this on a daily basis.
We don't have HR and the boss lives out of state. So anything goes in the office and he's senior employee here though most of the time he doesn't have a clue what's going on with any work related issues.
colleagues behavior unprofessional
edited 10 mins ago
DarkCygnus
39.7k1887169
asked 1 hour ago
yonikawayonikawa
1147
I work with this one elderly coworker who is literally a chatterbox.
He loves talking regardless who it is - clients, coworkers, random telemarketing guys, recruiters, you name it, he doesn't need a reason to start blabbing. He tells them all his life story. Even the recruiter calling for an ex-employee reference gets to listen to what he did over the weekend.
He just walks into my cube every time he is bored and starts some random conversation out of the blue regardless I am busy or not. Today he did the same while I was working on something really important for the client. I told him I am busy and will continue the topic at a later time. He will leave and in 10 minutes he is back with a different story. I repeated the same, he was back in another 15 minutes and started blabbing again. Finally, I told him that I am really busy, I need to focus, so quit interrupting me and he just stormed out.
How do you deal with this kind of people at workplace?
I work for a small business company with only 6 employees, so it's hard to avoid these type of personalities nor argue with them. But unless you are straight out on their face this guy won't gets it. If I give him indirect clue that he's being annoying, he immediately asks - What does that suppose to mean? I deal with this on a daily basis.
We don't have HR and the boss lives out of state. So anything goes in the office and he's senior employee here though most of the time he doesn't have a clue what's going on with any work related issues.
colleagues behavior unprofessional
colleagues behavior unprofessional
edited 10 mins ago
DarkCygnus
39.7k1887169
asked 1 hour ago
yonikawayonikawa
1147
edited 10 mins ago
DarkCygnus
39.7k1887169
asked 1 hour ago
yonikawayonikawa
1147
edited 10 mins ago
DarkCygnus
39.7k1887169
edited 10 mins ago
DarkCygnus
39.7k1887169
edited 10 mins ago
DarkCygnus
39.7k1887169
39.7k1887169
asked 1 hour ago
yonikawayonikawa
1147
asked 1 hour ago
yonikawayonikawa
1147
asked 1 hour ago
yonikawayonikawa
1147
1147
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Do you want an answer or is this just a rant?
– thursdaysgeek
1 hour ago
1
@thursdaysgeek - I want to know if I addressed the situation correctly by telling him not to interrupt me up straight. I know it will happen again and was wondering if there is a better way to handle it next time.
– yonikawa
1 hour ago
1
Someone once wrote: "No one is born as a genius.You learn from experience and mistakes and you move on.Unless your maturity level makes you consider yourself the ideal person in the world who don't make mistakes, doesn't need anyone else's help(which obviously reflects from your statement), you don't have to put your foot down or talk down on a coworker who needs help and unfortunately thinks you are the person to ask for." I can't remember who that was...
– Joe Strazzere
51 mins ago
2
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the extreme lack of respect and basic human decency.
– bruglesco
40 mins ago
2
I did some edits to the post, to remove the not-so-nice words and phrases, so readers can focus on answering the question/helping instead.
– DarkCygnus
9 mins ago
|
show 2 more comments
2
Do you want an answer or is this just a rant?
– thursdaysgeek
1 hour ago
1
@thursdaysgeek - I want to know if I addressed the situation correctly by telling him not to interrupt me up straight. I know it will happen again and was wondering if there is a better way to handle it next time.
– yonikawa
1 hour ago
1
Someone once wrote: "No one is born as a genius.You learn from experience and mistakes and you move on.Unless your maturity level makes you consider yourself the ideal person in the world who don't make mistakes, doesn't need anyone else's help(which obviously reflects from your statement), you don't have to put your foot down or talk down on a coworker who needs help and unfortunately thinks you are the person to ask for." I can't remember who that was...
– Joe Strazzere
51 mins ago
2
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the extreme lack of respect and basic human decency.
– bruglesco
40 mins ago
2
I did some edits to the post, to remove the not-so-nice words and phrases, so readers can focus on answering the question/helping instead.
– DarkCygnus
9 mins ago
2
2
Do you want an answer or is this just a rant?
– thursdaysgeek
1 hour ago
Do you want an answer or is this just a rant?
– thursdaysgeek
1 hour ago
1
1
@thursdaysgeek - I want to know if I addressed the situation correctly by telling him not to interrupt me up straight. I know it will happen again and was wondering if there is a better way to handle it next time.
– yonikawa
1 hour ago
@thursdaysgeek - I want to know if I addressed the situation correctly by telling him not to interrupt me up straight. I know it will happen again and was wondering if there is a better way to handle it next time.
– yonikawa
1 hour ago
1
1
Someone once wrote: "No one is born as a genius.You learn from experience and mistakes and you move on.Unless your maturity level makes you consider yourself the ideal person in the world who don't make mistakes, doesn't need anyone else's help(which obviously reflects from your statement), you don't have to put your foot down or talk down on a coworker who needs help and unfortunately thinks you are the person to ask for." I can't remember who that was...
– Joe Strazzere
51 mins ago
Someone once wrote: "No one is born as a genius.You learn from experience and mistakes and you move on.Unless your maturity level makes you consider yourself the ideal person in the world who don't make mistakes, doesn't need anyone else's help(which obviously reflects from your statement), you don't have to put your foot down or talk down on a coworker who needs help and unfortunately thinks you are the person to ask for." I can't remember who that was...
– Joe Strazzere
51 mins ago
2
2
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the extreme lack of respect and basic human decency.
– bruglesco
40 mins ago
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the extreme lack of respect and basic human decency.
– bruglesco
40 mins ago
2
2
I did some edits to the post, to remove the not-so-nice words and phrases, so readers can focus on answering the question/helping instead.
– DarkCygnus
9 mins ago
I did some edits to the post, to remove the not-so-nice words and phrases, so readers can focus on answering the question/helping instead.
– DarkCygnus
9 mins ago
|
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– thursdaysgeek
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@thursdaysgeek - I want to know if I addressed the situation correctly by telling him not to interrupt me up straight. I know it will happen again and was wondering if there is a better way to handle it next time.
– yonikawa
1 hour ago
1
Someone once wrote: "No one is born as a genius.You learn from experience and mistakes and you move on.Unless your maturity level makes you consider yourself the ideal person in the world who don't make mistakes, doesn't need anyone else's help(which obviously reflects from your statement), you don't have to put your foot down or talk down on a coworker who needs help and unfortunately thinks you are the person to ask for." I can't remember who that was...
– Joe Strazzere
51 mins ago
2
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the extreme lack of respect and basic human decency.
– bruglesco
40 mins ago
2
I did some edits to the post, to remove the not-so-nice words and phrases, so readers can focus on answering the question/helping instead.
– DarkCygnus
9 mins ago