Nonstop talker employee turns coworker’s workdays into daily struggle with endless interruptions, repetitive questions: ‘They just stand up and stare at me until I take my headphones off to hear them’

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  • "Non stop talker."

    "I have a hard time working when I'm being interrupted constantly"
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  • My coworker isn't a bad person, mean or cruel. They are just unbelievably annoying and making my job h I most days. They started at the company two
  • years ago and I've determined the ultimate issue is they are a talker. The first issue was training. I'm not their manager to be clear but I've spent countless hours
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  • training only for them to come back and ask the same questions over and over again. 60 percent are questions that they could find out themselves the other 40 are
  • something I've went over multiple times. I've tried creating documents for reference, telling them to take notes, and finally going to my manager which has
  • helped a little. They've limited their questions but now feel the need to update me on tasks that I just don't need to know about as it doesn't effect anything I do. I've asked them to start sharing these
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  • during the meetings that this type of info is designed to be shared but now they just tell me and then spend 90% of the meeting talking about the same topic. This
  • - to printf (value of number : %f\n"; number), (value of height : %d\n", height); 14. printf("value of letter: %c\n", letter), 12 printf("value of letter-sequence 13 prinkle of backslash-char lett
  • doesn't even cover the personal topics they go on and on about. I've resorted to using headphones but have found they will just stand up and stare at me until I
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  • take them off to hear their question. I've tried directly telling them that I have a hard time multitasking and focusing on my work when I'm being interrupted
  • constantly and then I scheduled a weekly 1:1 to cover any questions. It worked for about a month and then they just started saying they
  • didn't have any topics to cover but would still ask questions after the meeting, throughout the day. Has anyone experienced anything similar?
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  • Tinkerpro When they interrupt you with a question, or need help you simply reply: I am in the middle of something right now, send me a email and I'll respond when I can.
  • Take all your instructions, save them as individual PDFs and then forward instructions or whatever in response to their question.
  • I have a coworker like this. She will send an email and then show up at my desk 2 minutes later to ask if I have seen her email. Last time she did this I was in the middle of a huge project. She stood
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  • at my desk so I stopped what I was doing and said hey, what's up, Did you see my email? — The one you sent 2 minutes ago?
  • Yes. Is it an emergency? No, when can you take care of it?
  • I turned to face her completely and said: I am in the middle of something right now, When I have time I will read your email and respond. It may not be until
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  • tomorrow. Non-emergency items do not take priority. She doesn't do this to me any longer.
  • Wakemeup3000 Stop answering questions and refer them to the training book. You don't have to be mean just direct about it. 'How do I do ZZZ?' 'We covered that in training. Check the training book.'
  • Can you ask they put all their questions in email? Then respond at the end of the day and cc the boss in on them. Nothing gets someone to work independently as knowing the boss is aware of their stupid questions.
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  • BackDoorDirt Start being mean when they ask the same question, reply with something like: "haven't you asked this before?" Make them think twice before opening their mouth
  • SemperSimple sweet jesus. I would ignore this person so hard lol I did but she started calling and facing her friends and now talks on the phone all day since I'm not a talker it's the boss's daughter

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