I often wonder why people scratch their noses or heads. Itchiness is a primary factor for boogers to be picked and gray hairs to be pulled. Social gestures to show bad odor and uncertainty are other reasons for scratching noses or heads, respectively.
Scratching is a normal bodily function. Talking is a normal social skill. But when certain co-workers start talking too much about personal data or too frequently to waste company time, I assume they are too comfortable at work and forget they are in public.
No life is meant to be spent alone in a cubicle. And that is where people who love being in the limelight come into play. And they share themselves like an open book to the public and without any hesitation of fear or embarrassment.
Stories are meant to be told and some co-workers share their personal lives with others as families would do at home. Some stories are quite funny and sometimes events are remembered as painful.
This shows that everyone has a story that is personal no matter how uninviting. There are certain persons who would start the story and then find ways to extract a bit of information from their audience in similar situations.
One temporary worker, for example, always interrupts someone else’s conversation that happens to be within her earshot and without fail. Then she would ask all these questions and start telling her stories that could last up to ten minutes.
That is where I draw the line because it is too easy to participate and disclose data that would not and should not matter in the end. There is nothing to hide from honest people but when work needs to be done talking should stop too.
I find chatting online with co-workers convenient. Chatting allows us to communicate faster and without the use of the phones, which I never use no matter how urgent the issue. This is because my plan is not to work with this company any longer, by the way.
Chatting online is also rather imposing because this allows users to verify information for later archiving and retrieval. Another temporary worker, for example, wanted me to verify the spelling of the last name to the sister of one of his closest friend, who was my deceased cousin.
If they were close friends, he should not have forgotten in the first place or have messaged me either. I do not know this character even though he claims to be related to me in some way. My company does have a way of providing nosy temporary workers.
As a matter of fact, ‘’Fancy Soul’ is very fidgety with his arm flaying in the air and acts too confident to know better. His eyes are also red and if blood shot sometimes. He also does get the sniffles as if he had been crying and rubs his nose afterwards.
When people start to rub someone up the wrong way, they are not at fault sometimes. Some simply keep talking about non related work activities without realizing that they are annoying. These people waste no time speaking their minds without intending to do any harm whatsoever.
And that is not fair for the receiving end, especially another co-worker, who has to deal with the cross training of these temporary workers. There seems to be no end to ‘Feign Hurt’s’ nit picking questions about every detail to do her work, which is slow going.
If there could be justice served, this company could do us a favor and stop these annoying people from using up the time of us senior members and find those that won’t scare the normal ones away from ever coming back to work.
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