How do you deal with the workplace chatterbox?
You know THAT person.
The one who babbles and prattles on and on and on about pointless crap.
Goes off on loooong tangents.
Answers a question with a five minute monologue, when everybody else can answer the same question in 20 seconds.
They rarely ask questions about you and your life. It's always about me, me, me, or irrelevant tripe.
And they soak up your time that you need to get work done.
How do you deal with these supremely annoying people?
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not only babbles on- after she's done with the story, she goes back to "start" and repeats it....
I got lucky - for some reason she stopped speaking to me two years ago. (She's also veeerry sensitive.) Since then, every time I observe her chewing someone's ear off, I remember what a lucky woman I am. 
I have a hard time interrupting people (unless they do it to me once too many times) because I like to let them make their point. But I think in the case of someone like that, I'd interrupt to talk about my life. They usually lose interest fast and find something else to do 
