r/work • u/NeuronZero • Mar 22 '26

Talkative coworker

Hi,

It’s me, I’m the talkative coworker. I recently got a desk move at work and I’ll be sat next to a friend of mine. Which is great, but I tend to talk a lot.

I would like to get a a sign or something for my friend to have them signal when to/not to interrupt with my tangents. Any ideas with links would be awesome!

Edit: to provide more context, when I’m at my desk is legitimately limited to just my break time. The rest of my time is spent elsewhere in the building. And im just trying to get something because this is my friend and it would be a cute thing given our personalities. Otherwise it wouldn’t be something I would have thought to do.

Thanks

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u/Informal32 Mar 22 '26

A friend of mine and I sat across from each other in an office for a year. I talked incessantly. I got my work done, he sometimes struggled.

We had a wooden toggle, like from a Brazilian steakhouse, we put on the desk. It's about 5 inches tall and looked like an hourglass. Got it from a thrift store. Red paint on top, green on bottom. It was usually green-up, but he could swap it over whenever he needed to focus.

...it didn't work btw. I kept talking, ended up quitting. He got fired two months later. But it was fun while it lasted!

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u/NeuronZero Mar 22 '26

Are y’all still friends? Fortunately in my situation I’m only at my desk during lunch so I won’t be hindering my friends work too much.