Hi, friends!
Happy Monday, I hope your day is going well. Do you have any over sharers at your work?
I got some chatty coworkers, but wow today this guy I work with rarely went into a tirade about a medical treatment he wants and how the insurance won’t allow it. And then just kept talking…
My wife volunteers for a foster dog organization and to be honest some of her phone calls about medical issues with foster dogs make me leave the room.
It’s important work, but I really don’t need to know about the glands being drained.
My “coworkers” overshare, are verbally & sexually abusive & even force me to see them naked! Alas, the joys of self employment & working for the wife. The guy I do construction projects with on the side is not much better & I have learned way more than I need to know about chicken herpes & how mountain beavers eat their own shit.
We’ve got a consultant who will. Not. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. Every single meeting we have with him in the room automatically adds 15 minutes to the run time. When everyone is working he will just randomly wander around and talk to people. I can’t be an asshole so I just do my best to give off a GO AWAY vibe. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
Start talking to him about cilantro, avocados and hominy.
Yum! Sounds like someone needs to do a FYCE!
You mean scream at him about cilantro, avocados and hominy.
Look at him, racking up billable hours doing absolutely fuck-all.
There’s always one. One time I got trapped between two of my friends wives and found out way more about their personal grooming and other habits than I wanted to know.
One of my friends saw the look on my face after and asked what was wrong. I merely shook my head and walked away.
Oh yikes that’s awkward.
I should add when I lived in Alabama, oversharing was practically an art form.
Like I’d be in line at JoAnn’s Fabrics and the lady behind me was buying yards of fleece and just starts explaining to me about how bless her heart, one of her daughters in law is an alcoholic and sewing crafts are just so good for her emotional state.
some of my co-workers seem to treat work as a therapy session…tho the worst offender is harold…who not only shares everything…but is also loud as fuck….the time he couldnt sit down for ages coz he got operated on his ass for something or another and was trying to drop trou to show off the scar to anyone what gave him half a chance was equal parts funny and wrong tho
sides from that i currently need to remember to not mention anything to do with kids around martha as she has freshly minted grandma fever….i dont consider that oversharing….but i also dont have time to see all the baby pics again…nor do i particularly care what great achievement the baby had today…i assume thats a temporary thing tho
I have someone on my team that is definitely a talker in general, not usually an oversharer, specifically. If you get on the phone with her, it is guaranteed a 30 min phone call, minimum. We are all work from home since 2020, and she was even before that since she moved away from our home office. But she was chatty in the office as well. She’s just like that. Any conversation she can draw out. And now that she is stuck in the house all day (at least she finally has a partner, she lived alone for most of her life which I don’t think she was suited for), it would come out at us. She’s also a Trumper, so every once in a while she’ll say something like “idk why we have to take this DIB (diversity) training, aren’t we all just people??” and I’m thinking “you are exactly why we need the training.”