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I agree with you, but I don't think our bosses would though.
They're the ones doing all the yapping ...
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Originally Posted by Alley01
we are talking about those crazies that have to waste 30 minutes of valuable time with talking about things unrelated to work or prying into our lives because they are so nosy.
There are people like that? Really? In 35+ years of working, I've never met anyone like you're describing. Maybe because I've always worked in deadline-oriented (newspapers, fundraising) environments?
Having worked in Chicago and many other cities, I can say for certain, that this problem has nothing to do with geography. It's really a company culture, and by extension, a generational culture. There are chatty people in every city.
My solution is simply not to respond. I just smile and stay silent. Chatty people need someone to respond to them, and any kind of response will do. So if you don't respond, they'll stop.
I get paid to do whatever I feel like. I could be out golfing, which I have done... As long as the working coming out of my machines is good Donno how the rest of the crowd deals with these sweatshop environments everyone describes...
I get paid to do whatever I feel like. I could be out golfing, which I have done... As long as the working coming out of my machines is good Donno how the rest of the crowd deals with these sweatshop environments everyone describes...
I am a very busy person and unless you have work related matters to discuss, please wait until I am on a break to speak with me.
Don't forget to also put masking tape on the floor around your cube to simulate where your office walls would be, if you had an office, and require people to say "knock knock" when they want to enter.
When I was working, there were two women who were particularly chatty. They were both long-time employees in supervisory positions. When I was new, I frequently had questions, but when the office door was closed, knocking was a no-no. After a length of time, the door would open and one of them would cross the hall to her own office. Five minutes later, both their phone lines would light up, and they were so dumb they didn't know how obvious that was.
In any event, I had to postpone my questions until these two were all talked out, so that delayed my work getting done. They both eventually left the company and I was promoted into one of their positions. My boss was in awe that I could manage to get so much accomplished, as the other two were always behind.
My policy has always been - I have a lot to get done today and if I stop now I'll lose my momentum. I'll see you in the lunch room/break room/smoke porch.
Just be forthright.
Yesterday I got fed up with an older salesman who always comes in to retell the same stupid stories about customers he called on 40 years ago, so I picked up a 3' piece of aluminum casting sprue that happened to be sitting in my office for some reason and started hitting him with it. He finally crawled out the door and I haven't seen him since, so apparently he got the point. He needs to get back in here and clean his blood up out of the carpet before the stain sets, though, and he left a smelly old man shoe behind.
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