Will all of you please just STOP talking! You are driving me insane! —Gal who works in an office with 10 VERY CHATTY MEN!!
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2010.
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They’re horny….that’s why they’re chatty. You know how to solve that problem.
i hear ya. i got the same problem in the library
I’d take 10 chatty men over 1 chatty woman anytime.
Oh the horror- people chatting in the office! Stop whining and put your headphones on; if they can talk you should be able to listen to your ipod!
I’d rather work any day in a casual office where people are allowed to chat as they work- as opposed to those tense, silent offices where people are afraid to even go for a pee break! Before I took my mat leave, I worked in a relaxed atmosphere and it was so enjoyable; even when the work itself got boring, I had nice, friendly collegues that made the time go by alot faster (it wasn’t gossip-I agree with TTFN- there was only 1 other female on my floor).
In my opinion, when people are trusted to do their work without being treated like a bunch of 5th graders in a library, they’re happier and so more productive.
At least they are communicating with each other. Silent offices can be extremely boring.
It’s a call centre FFS. What do you expect.
Yay for social office environments!
There will always be the lame keeners who say “but you’re there to work, not to chat, blah blah blah look at me I’m so good,” but I believe a happy employee who likes their job is a productive, more durable employee. More progressive companies such as Google have already figured this out, but there are still some micro-managing bosses who prefer the old style of management where you’re just expected to work work work, with only work-related talk and work-related emails and work-related this and that, who get after you for coming in a few minutes late, etc., then wonder why they have such a hard time attracting and retaining good employees.
Work is for working, not for socializing. Just do your work and shut up, if I want to socialize I will go to a party.
yeah, tell them to get to fucking work, or you will rat on them. that should make you so popular there.
Chatting is preferable to what the spaz I sit across from does. He actually arrives EARLY (unpaid) because he wastes so much time with all his moaning/commentary all day long. It is like every thought he has must be vocalized, from telling himself (and everyone else) what task he is going to do next, to dictating aloud every word of the emails he composes. It’s not fabulous.
I am horny, but not that chatty 😉
we have just one who drones on and on about nothing…starting at 8am onward. He doesn’t even need anyone to be listening but unfortunately there are polite people that sit next to him and listen. Or he moves to the other side of the office and talks to someone else. All the while these people are supposed to doing their work – him included! And his supervisor never says a word.
Thankfully he’s out part of the do there is a rest. And then 2pm come and he’s baack! kill me, kill me now.
I hate the chatters. I go to work to ummm…work. Nothing wrong with a little small talk. But the blah blah blah just drives me up the fucking wall.
OP you must work where I do.
Well I go to work because, like 95% of people, I have to in order to make money, and I chitchat and surf the net here and there to make the day go by better. I focus more and work longer when I have to and still get my shit done, oftentimes more efficiently than the busy-bodies who are “just there to work.” They may be good at LOOKING busy, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re more productive.
Anyway, if you’re stuck there for 7 to 8 hours a day, five days a week, you might as well try to make the most of it.