As of late I have a coworker who talks a lot is not only interrupting mine and others work, but it's starting to lead to some anger amongst my coworkers.
I'm not talking about striking up a conversation during breaks or when someone's trying to do work. She specifically does it when we're in a group setting like a meeting.
She talks a lot asks a lot of questions that most of the time are unnecessary or has a long winded way of asking or answering questions.
It reminds me of the person who you say goodbye to on the phone and they say goodbye too but still keep talking.
At first it wasn't really noticeable because we had like 1 or 2 meetings a month but we've been working on a big project so we have 1 or 2 per week now, and it's becoming apparent.
The incident that made me write this is before the meeting started-it was her turn to run the meeting as we were discussing her portion-and she wanted to ask people how they were doing and do like a powwow, one of our coworkers just straight up said "No, can we just start the meeting?"
She kept pressing even asking about things like "How are things at home? How are your kids?"
And she might not have known that he was a pretty private guy and he visibly went from annoyed to angry.
We managed to finally get The meeting started late minding, and then it ran longer than it was supposed to because she kept talking. At one point one of coworker just said "oh for f***k's sake", I'm not sure if she just didn't hear it or ignored it because she didn't react to it.
Now though I've heard some coworkers talking that they're going to go to our supervisor about her.
Overall I don't want her to get in trouble. Aside that she's a good worker and her work is good.
I'm wondering if I can talk to her to point out the over talking so she can reel it back and not be reported?
How would I go about that?