Dear fellow co-worker,
I am growing very tired due to your incessant chatter. I’m trying to learn how to do my job effectively and despite the boring nature of our lengthy presentations and meetings, I do not appreciate your non-stop blither about who you happen to be humping this week. You complain about your hangovers and whine about how daddy was late paying your rent this month. You bray and squawk about recent travels taken and yet can’t be bothered to contribute to carpool money. In fact, sometimes you don’t even ask for a lift! Instead, you wait by the door and follow the rest of us into the vehicle (and meanwhile you titter, chatter and cluck).
We’ve tried turning up the volume of the radio and your voice only gets louder. We’ve tried being curt and short with you when expected to listen along to your reflections on your latest ‘draamaaaaaa’. We’ve tried to laugh off your insensitive commentary about the people around us. Monday is a new day, co-worker, and if you can’t take a hint and appreciate the golden glow of silence, I’m this close to telling you to stfu…
That’s about the worst I’m willing to do. But you best be damn sure I will not be nice in tone. —My Ears! They Bleed!
This article appears in Jun 7-13, 2012.
I know people are going to tell you to suck it up and just tell them to stfu, but I know how freaking hard it is to strike that balance in the work place.
I work with someone who’s a pain in the butt and as assertive as I am, I can’t bring myself to tell them to stfu.
Try ignoring them. And if that doesn’t work, simple “uh huh” “oh yeah” “mmmhmm”s tend to get them to shut up pretty quickly.
My sympathies.
Also: next time they follow you out to the car simply say “sorry, we’re picking someone else up, so no room for you” and toss ’em a bus ticket.
Fuck that – tell the rich little twat that NO ONE cares about her self-driven fucking drama. Or a simple: ‘Can’t you shut the fuck up?’ Worked for me on a few occasions.
As captain of this vessel….
http://up-ship.com/blog/wp-content/uploads…
and that’s an ORDER
Or, if that doesn’t work:
http://astrozombie.org/pics/view.php?p=307
GAWD I hate loudmouths.
This is for you PK ;):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd5dYQHoZS0
“If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s some chowderhead who doesn’t know how to keep his his big trap shut.”
Tommy, what’s that blog with the guy who just writes about how much he hates his shit co-worker?
kinda sounds strange here, but if you are working, why are you taking notes. trying to learn sounds like you don’t know your job already. if that is the case, then you should not be there in the first place.
not sure but I still read this one from time to time… his antics aer hilarious and I saw his book down in the coles in the mall.
I forget which bitcher originally posted it so I apologize for being unable to give credit for the initial discovery.
http://www.27bslash6.com/f26a.html
Sounds like a whiny cow I used to work with who was almost 30 and still living at home, mommy and daddy bought and paid for everything.
She was always talking about what she was going to have her daddy buy her for her birthday, Christmas etc. and would call home at break to put in her supper request it made me want to vomit.
I was thinking about posting it anyways, but here it is, per Mel’s request:
http://crashingthru.blogspot.ca/
That one is hilarious too, Z. I think it may have been Ivan to post it, at least the first time I saw it. Comical.
Can’t claim credit for an other person’s stroke of genius. I forget who originally posted that; I remember trawling back through 9 months of bitches to re-post the link. Still sofa king funny.
I tried to do that too, Ivan. Glad you went n dug it up.
I posted that forever ago but I stole it from a friend 🙂
Try “sshhhhhh”! Each time they start to talk after the initial “shh” interrupt them with another short “shh”! They might get the hint. No guarantees though.