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I have had this happen before in other jobs.
There is one person in my service that tries to engage me in chit-chat at inappropriate times. I otherwise like this person and do not want to alienate them. Thank god I have yet to be on a job with them.
It started during the orientation and training. We would chat during downtimes, fine, but then while the training officer was talking, this person would wisper questions to me, instead of asking the trainer directly.
I try to just ignore them, act as if I didnt hear, then they paw at me, I contain myself from grabbing their wrist and snapping it to make them stop. I ended up just being sure not sit next to them.
When we ride in the rig, twice it happened, once a senior member was backing the rig in a tight spot. Someone was outside. I was stuck with chatty-person. The way I am, especially as a noobie, is just to sit quiet unless I am asked to help. This person kept wanting to talk "whats going on, should we get out an help, do you think they will make it....?????"
I got out of it by pretending not to hear over the rumble of the engine. Then the person had the gall not to take the effing hint and ask me if I have hearing trouble.
Another time I was getting trained to back the ambulance in a tight bay. The training person was outside directing me via radio. The chatty person in the back giving their input.....why cant the shut the eff up ?
I cant find the way to speak to them about it, they might complain to others....and if no one knows about it I am the bad person.....
THIS HAPPENED ALL THE TIME DURING PUBLIC SAFETY TYPE TESTS:
Once at a test, they had answer sheets, some went horizonatal, some vertical, so this nosy person sees me going one way and them the other, ad thinks I am making a mistake, they want to correct me, first they wisper, I ingnore, then they paw me, then they start talking in this add/asperger/anxoius voice telling me I am "doing it wrong" spittle flying everywhere. The proctor comes over, knows I was silent, asks the person what the problem is, looks at my paper, looks at theirs, tells them to mind their own buisness, wispers me to me, "dont worry, knothing is wrong", then the rest of the time splotchy spittle face is glaring at me the whole time and gives me a dirty look on the way out.
Then there are the people that dont pay attention to who ever is running the show, and taps on their neighbors shoulder with retarded questions, or comments,
I even had people like that I ahd to work with. In the middle of jobs, making issues of things that we should have just ignored. Mindless chatter, trying to engage me in some conversation that is not appropriate it.
Or the people that tell ridiculous war stories that in now way happened or are true.
Or they tell you things that scream: TMI
One person i even worked with a bunch of times, woudl them say, "Oh, I know you hate me...." (I would ignore) Do get them to sto talking on a double tour, I said, lets have a quiet competition, whoever talks first has to buy lunch....it got the point they would ramble, and then stop themseves and say, oh yes, quiet time......
This was a job when things would rarely happen and when it did I would try to get them to leave and just deal myslef........
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE?????
The only way I can think to solve it is to grab them by the neck, cut off the air supply, and hit their heads against a solid object until they become unrepsonsive. However, that solution is both illegal and a social faux paus, so barring that what have you done or would you do when stuck with a chatty person ??????
There is one person in my service that tries to engage me in chit-chat at inappropriate times. I otherwise like this person and do not want to alienate them. Thank god I have yet to be on a job with them.
It started during the orientation and training. We would chat during downtimes, fine, but then while the training officer was talking, this person would wisper questions to me, instead of asking the trainer directly.
I try to just ignore them, act as if I didnt hear, then they paw at me, I contain myself from grabbing their wrist and snapping it to make them stop. I ended up just being sure not sit next to them.
When we ride in the rig, twice it happened, once a senior member was backing the rig in a tight spot. Someone was outside. I was stuck with chatty-person. The way I am, especially as a noobie, is just to sit quiet unless I am asked to help. This person kept wanting to talk "whats going on, should we get out an help, do you think they will make it....?????"
I got out of it by pretending not to hear over the rumble of the engine. Then the person had the gall not to take the effing hint and ask me if I have hearing trouble.
Another time I was getting trained to back the ambulance in a tight bay. The training person was outside directing me via radio. The chatty person in the back giving their input.....why cant the shut the eff up ?
I cant find the way to speak to them about it, they might complain to others....and if no one knows about it I am the bad person.....
THIS HAPPENED ALL THE TIME DURING PUBLIC SAFETY TYPE TESTS:
Once at a test, they had answer sheets, some went horizonatal, some vertical, so this nosy person sees me going one way and them the other, ad thinks I am making a mistake, they want to correct me, first they wisper, I ingnore, then they paw me, then they start talking in this add/asperger/anxoius voice telling me I am "doing it wrong" spittle flying everywhere. The proctor comes over, knows I was silent, asks the person what the problem is, looks at my paper, looks at theirs, tells them to mind their own buisness, wispers me to me, "dont worry, knothing is wrong", then the rest of the time splotchy spittle face is glaring at me the whole time and gives me a dirty look on the way out.
Then there are the people that dont pay attention to who ever is running the show, and taps on their neighbors shoulder with retarded questions, or comments,
I even had people like that I ahd to work with. In the middle of jobs, making issues of things that we should have just ignored. Mindless chatter, trying to engage me in some conversation that is not appropriate it.
Or the people that tell ridiculous war stories that in now way happened or are true.
Or they tell you things that scream: TMI
One person i even worked with a bunch of times, woudl them say, "Oh, I know you hate me...." (I would ignore) Do get them to sto talking on a double tour, I said, lets have a quiet competition, whoever talks first has to buy lunch....it got the point they would ramble, and then stop themseves and say, oh yes, quiet time......
This was a job when things would rarely happen and when it did I would try to get them to leave and just deal myslef........
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THESE PEOPLE?????
The only way I can think to solve it is to grab them by the neck, cut off the air supply, and hit their heads against a solid object until they become unrepsonsive. However, that solution is both illegal and a social faux paus, so barring that what have you done or would you do when stuck with a chatty person ??????
