# Please stop coming by my desk. \[lame\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-coming-by-my-desk-lame/468370>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 17, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-coming-by-my-desk-lame/468370 "2008-10-17T13:34:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-coming-by-my-desk-lame/468370/21 "2008-10-18T16:01:49Z")

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It’s all because the last temp filled out the exit survey and said she was miserable because nobody ever talked to her or made her feel welcome. She was so lonely, she quit.

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**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-coming-by-my-desk-lame/468370/22 "2008-10-18T18:12:18Z")

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> [@featherlou](#):
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> Did you fantasize about jumping up and yelling, “SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP! I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT YOU STILL DON’T SHUT UP!”? I know that one is not just me.

Never. It was too hilarious to watch and hear him once he got on a roll and to see the looks of incredulity on the faces of his victims.

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**Author:** ![Professor\_So\_And\_So](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Professor\_So\_And\_So](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Professor_So_And_So)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-stop-coming-by-my-desk-lame/468370/23 "2008-10-19T23:45:07Z")

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> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#):
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> Count yourself lucky.
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> The following is 100% A-fucking-true. I once had a co-worker who, once he started on about something, could talk non-stop for a half-hour. I don’t mean for a half-hour conversation. I mean NON-STOP, BY HIMSELF, FOR A WHOLE FUCKING HALF-HOUR. He sat behind me, and I would tell him I was busy once he started in. But one of my, shall we say, less assertive co-workers didn’t know how to do that. That is why I timed one of their so-called conversations. Once, a group of eight or so of us, windbag included, went out to lunch. Most of the others were new and didn’t know about this guy. I knew what was going to happen, so I sat at the end and waited for the entertainment. The guy talked through the whole lunch and no one else said a word. I kid you not, the guy didn’t let anyone say a single, fucking word.

When fucktard was done, a simple “What was that? Did you say something?” would have been fitting.

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