"TMI" people

[Dick Whitman]

Not looking for advice as much as I am looking for some company in my misery.

My shop hired a younger woman a few weeks ago. She's nice enough. Smart. Competent, so far as I can tell (different department).

The problem? She's constantly talking about her personal life. Not just hers, but her friends'. People I've never met, never will meet. And I know everything about their failing marriages, their swinger proclivities, their ... desires to experiment. It's just a nonstop stream of clubbing stories, in-law stories (remarkably, she's married), and just about any other story you can conjure.

I think she's 25 or 26, so maybe it's just a maturity thing. Or maybe it's just a personality type.

Anyway, curious about whether others have experienced the "TMI" ("too much information") monster at work, or socially, and whether it drives everyone crazy or if I'm just being crotchety.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

One of the other message boards that I check out has a thread with thousands of posts that is just called "TMI" and is filled with people revealing far too much about themselves.

It's ****ing hilarious and I think we need a similar thread here.

 

[JackReacher]

Tons of people like that in my office. I want to strangle them all.

 

[dooley_womack1]

I'd welcome it as manna from heaven, to break up the monotony and to have great joke material later.

 

[Ace]

So what kind of experimenting? Does it involve bunsen burners?

 

[Small Town Guy]

I know the daily bowel habits of the three children of one of my co-workers. I know them because she discusses it for about 45 minutes a day with another co-worker.

I've heard a woman tell her husband on the phone he's a "****ing loser who needs to grow up."

Finally I heard another woman tell her husband, who had been living in the Dominican Republic for nine months "working on a book," "Fine. You want a divorce. You got it. You stay down there with that young *****. You're going to realize I was the best thing that ever happened to you. **** you."

When a manager suggested those types of phone calls should be taken on her cell outside the office instead of on a work phone, she said, "Why?"

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I worked with a woman who was trying to adopt a kid from Haiti and it was quite the process. She would tell anyone who got within 100 feet of her every single detail, from how much it was costing to why she couldn't have kids to how worried she was after hearing that a hurricane hit the area. She also would hit up co-workers about six times a year about donating to the orphanage and related causes.

I was hit up for money almost every time I was in the office, which wasn't often.

This was also the same person who complained to management when a co-worker sent out a staff email saying "if anyone wants girl scout cookies, my daughter is selling them." that was about handled ten thousand times better than she did walking around with a jar of money for donations.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

Tons of people like that in my office. I want to strangle them all.

Sonner is Mr. Bookman.

I remember when the librarian was a much older woman: Kindly,
discreet, unattractive. We didn't know anything about her private life.
We didn't want to know anything about her private life. She didn't have
a private life.

 

[mustangj17]

One of my interns told me she weighed 164 pounds yesterday. She also chats to everyone about her mom's gambling problems. Her mom works here too. Yay!

 

[Dick Whitman]

My TMI person also announces what I'm doing as loudly as possible.

"Hot Pockets for dinner again!!!??? GEEZ!!!"

"Reading a LeBron story on the Internet!!!??? When the heck is he going to make a decision!!!??? Maybe you can get back to work when he does, huh!?" (cackles)

 

[User 1019]

HejiraHenry and I sat in the office once and listened to the obit lady tell her ex-husband, "I'm glad you've got cancer, you sonofabitch. You'll be dead in six months anyway."

 

[Ace]

My TMI person also announces what I'm doing as loudly as possible.

"Hot Pockets for dinner again!!!??? GEEZ!!!"

"Reading a LeBron story on the Internet!!!??? When the heck is he going to make a decision!!!??? Maybe you can get back to work when he does, huh!?" (cackles)

Yeah. I don't mind people who share their dirt nearly as much as someone always commenting on what other people are doing. Have a relative like that.

 

[93Devil]

One of the other message boards that I check out has a thread with thousands of posts that is just called "TMI" and is filled with people revealing far too much about themselves.

It's ****ing hilarious and I think we need a similar thread here.

Link?

 

[CA_journo]

Not so much in the office, but I've had a family member twice post a Facebook status about her period and a friend who posted that he was going in for STD testing. Couldn't click "Hide" fast enough.

 

[wicked]

I have a co-worker who insists on me telling her every intricacy of my private life. When I held back from her that I was dating someone else in the office (namely because she has a big mouth), she said she was "disappointed." She also talks about her sex life, even blogs about it -- a blog that everyone in the office reads.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Not looking for advice as much as I am looking for some company in my misery.

My shop hired a younger woman a few weeks ago. She's nice enough. Smart. Competent, so far as I can tell (different department).

The problem? She's constantly talking about her personal life. Not just hers, but her friends'. People I've never met, never will meet. And I know everything about their failing marriages, their swinger proclivities, their ... desires to experiment. It's just a nonstop stream of clubbing stories, in-law stories (remarkably, she's married), and just about any other story you can conjure.

I think she's 25 or 26, so maybe it's just a maturity thing. Or maybe it's just a personality type.

Anyway, curious about whether others have experienced the "TMI" ("too much information") monster at work, or socially, and whether it drives everyone crazy or if I'm just being crotchety.

You're just jealous ...

 

[dooley_womack1]

I have a co-worker who insists on me telling her every intricacy of my private life. When I held back from her that I was dating someone else in the office (namely because she has a big mouth), she said she was "disappointed." She also talks about her sex life, even blogs about it -- a blog that everyone in the office reads.

Link?

 

[joe_schmoe]

We thankfully don't have the tmi people. worst we had was one guy (no longer with us) who was a loud talker and would take personal calls at his desk. Fortunately, his life sucked so much worse than mine, the most we ever learned about him is how much his landlord sucked and where he was meeting his loser girlfriend for dinner.

I'm hate when people give you TMI. Now excuse me, I have diarrhea.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

It's the Facebook mentality.

 

[imjustagirl]

I AM the TMI person!