I am so fed up with her! First off, she never shuts up and reads us out loud practically every dept. email we get even though we are all perfectly capable of reading it ourselves. It especially bothers me when we get one while she's at lunch and then she comes back an hour later and exclaims that we got this email and reads it to us. Yes we know we got it an hour ago! She Googles anything we may have a question on, like a certain restaurant we went to but can't remember the name and she will try and find it and then read us out loud it's address, what they serve, etc. Yesterday while the two others who sit by me were at a meeting she went on and on about everything the entire hour they were gone. Somehow she got on a kick about the Jetsons and looked it up and read me all of the characters names, their ages, their occupations, who voiced them, then she read me some of her Facebook posts. Finally she went back to work but then she talks out loud while she's working. She is working on some Italian stuff and she'd read certain things like churches out loud and say it with an Italian accent. OH MY GOD! And that was just an hour out of my day yesterday!

What really really annoys the crap out of me is that when we sit in little learning sessions and someone else who is knowledgeable is trying to teach us how to do something and she will not shut up! The person will tell us one thing and before they can get the entire sentence out she will go "Oh and then we do such and such right? That's what I thought." I remember when I first started here and we sat in a group learning how to do stuff and it was only for about 30 minutes but I just about slapped her! She went on the entire time!

Then yesterday 3 of us were learning how to use the "scan to email" function on our new printer. She was of course right up front next to the person showing us and she parroted everything this other person said or else would try to figure out what the other person was going to say before she said it. For example when the other person said "You go to this green bar and punch in the person's name" and then Chatty Cathy would immediately say "Do you see that? You have to go to the green bar and punch in the person's name". Then the person would say "And then you hit send and the paper gets put through the scanner and you should have an email" and Chatty would go "See that, how the paper is going through and scanning? You should have an email".

There was an accident last night in front of work where a pedestrian was killed and wouldn't you know she was just leaving work at that time. She has told every single person who has come in today if they heard about the accident and how she was here but didn't see a whole lot. It is driving me insane. I know she enjoys the fact that she was on scene when it happened and can tell EVERYONE about it. I'm sure she feels pretty important.

Nobody here ever says anything about her and maybe they all like the fact that she's so talkative. I've only been here 10 months and am not about to complain about her to someone because everyone is pretty close here and she has been here 17 years. I have to find a way to deal with her, like headphones but we have to collaborate so much that wearing those isn't worth it.