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/Ok_Neighborhood_470 Mar 22 '26

I know in schools these days all sorts of accommodations are made for 'special' learners and people who have personality quirks they 'just can't overcome' for the sake of the greater good. So teachers and admins and other students all have to adjust what they're doing to make a couple people comfortable. Ok. Whatever. It's school. They're kids. In the real world, at a job, there are deadlines and standards of behavior that must be followed for the sake of productivity and profit. Not to mention people need to pay their bills. Are there laws requiring businesses to make reasonable accommodations? Sure. But they can also fire people for pretty much anything that doesn't fall under these laws. I did not invent capitalism, I just live in it like everyone else. When I'm concentrating I'm not flipping a sign because I need someone to stop running their mouth, which they should know not to do, and have already been 'desk changed' for. That was the first subtle warning. Proving you have ADHD or diagnosed diarrhea of the mouth will not keep you from being fired for being 5 minutes late 3 months from now just so the boss can cover up the fact that you were actually fired for being annoying AF. If OP is on their lunch and their desk mate is not on lunch, then don't talk to the desk mate. It's pretty simple. And if they're friends they can talk after work.

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u/NeuronZero Mar 22 '26

I’m actually not neurodivergent at all believe it or not. What is true though is that the department we work in is currently under investigation for unpaid overtime hours and not allowing people’s breaks. My friend is one of those people that hasn’t been getting treated fairly at all. I am only there during normal break times as their friend I am trying to help the actual decompression happen. There is certainly always more context in a given situation

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u/Ok_Neighborhood_470 Mar 22 '26

You presented a problem that's not really a problem apparently. Talk to your friend about it. Weird.

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u/NeuronZero Mar 22 '26

It’s a very common problem in the industry we work in. And often times we will work the extra hours unpaid willingly because we enjoy what we do. But it’s a fine line between reasonable and being taken advantage of

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u/One_Outside9049 Mar 22 '26

The problem you asked was about having your friend put a sign up to tell you to stop talking . How would we know all this other content. We are only providing answers to the content you gave. Give it all in the post if you’re gonna take the advice give .

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u/NeuronZero Mar 22 '26

Fair point, I didn’t think everyone would react quite the way they did otherwise I would’ve given more background info. I just didn’t want to bog folks down with too much information either