Annoying coworkers. I'm working with Family Guy's "Myles Chatterbox".

[CanuckAmok]

This guy will NOT SHUT UP.


Ever.

I have to put up with him three times a day, once for each break, when my office becomes the site break room.

He's not a bad guy, but he fills any space he's in with his inane chatterings:

"It's getting cold. I think I'm going to put on another sweater. I wear layers, which is a good way to keep warm or cool down, but it means I have to carry lots of clothes with me. Okay here's a good one. Oh, look at that! Wow, $5000 seems a bit high for a 1992 Civic. I paid about $3000 for mine and that was a few years ago. But you know what's expensive? Parts for those things. Mostly I do my own work on my car...."

He's just like that Family Guy character who discovered Quohog: "I mean, I know he's an Indian, but what kind of a name is Sqanto? I mean why not Leslie or something like that? Did you know some beaches have black sand?"

And this doofus insisted in jumping in with me when I drove up-site on an errand, spulled an entire French vanilla cappucino all over the interior of my Jeep, and now it smells like a whorehouse. Then he fell out of the thing while trying to make a graceful exit, and did a face-plant right into the muck.

What kind of construction worker dringcs a French vanilla capp, anyway?!

[Dave Sund]

1. Well...

He will die from a combination of tuberculosis and a tomahawk to the head.

[flamingyouth]

2. I think I work with his sister

She talks constantly about nothing too. She follows me around, continuing to mutter incessantly. She actually will keep talking to me as I'm getting ready to go into the washroom and keeps talking even as I shut the door.

On top of that annoying characteristic, she's also completely paranoid. She's obsessed with the idea that rats could somehow get into the store because the restaurant next door leaves their dumpster lid open sometimes. Giant rats usually come up in conversation about two or three times a week, often as I'm getting ready to eat my lunch. She also talks about how easy it would be for a bunch of people to come in the store and rob and kill us. Yes, she's a regular ray of sunshine.

On the upside, she's highly detail oriented, so since she handles our database and accounts payable/receivable, that's a good thing. I need to start wearing headphones to work... :banghead:

[yvr girl]

3. I guess it's too late to pretend you don't speak English

Too bad.

Hi stranger.

[CanuckAmok]

4. que?

[yvr girl]

5. I am NOT a chatterbox

You don't need to pretend with me.

[miss_kitty]

6. worse is the POS chatterbox I used to work with

Shirley and her nearly verbatim reports on the last fucking Dr Laura show. Her colonic polyps. All the black friends she had. All the 'oriental' friends she had. All the Hispanic friends she had. How her hubby who was Honduran was so white-looking, she didn't have to feel she was in a mixed marriage, how unnoticing she was of peoples' ethnicity-day in day out. On day she got so pissed at me, she said she wanted me dead and wanted to smash my head on the floor. Hey-I just said she was delusional about her personal philosophy-I had NO IDEA she was married to it.

And I also forgot-I wore a WALKMAN (at the boss's suggestion) to drown her out after several tiffs, and she took offense at that and would try to talk loudly enough for me to hear. :eyes:

I feel your pain though, man.

[flamingyouth]

7. Someone should really compile all these stories in a book

:D

[miss_kitty]

8. She went turbo ballistic when I told her Asian people might find the word

'oriental' offensive.

[Jade Fox]

9. I have a new co-worker who talks to herself all day long....

Would that I only had to be around her three times a day!

Those of us in the cubicles around her are on the verge of homicide.

[Mutley]

10. i used to work with a girl

who would talk and talk and talk about the most irrelevant things that I can't even remember one thing to give you guys as an example. She would be talking to me, I would turn around and walk away, and I could still hear her talking. Then I would go by her ten or fifteen minutes later and she'd still be talking about the same thing as if I'd never left! I was so glad when she quit.

[DS1]

11. I got a bigger laugh out of your sig line

:D

[KG]

12. i work in a 'bull pen' type arrange ment with 4 young women

who won't. ever. shut. up.

they gab all day about the most mindless stuff, coz none of em got the sense god gave a billy goat. i dont care they get no real work done, not my problem, but tired of have to crank up tunes and put on headphones to drown out the chatter.