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> Maybe every morning they take the first 30 minutes of their day to tell you about what movie they watched last night? E-v-e-r-y-d-a-y.

Funnily enough I always think these are some of the best 30 minutes of my day. Certainly beats having to talk about your favorite design pattern first thing in the morning.

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Yes, unless you're someone who wants to do something at that point in time.

I have a co-worker who gets fidgety for beers every Thursday around 15:00. He starts walking around, loudly talking with anyone and telling stories. That's super-annoying for me because 14:00-17:00 is the time I'm most productive.

Woes of an open office ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Same here. I used to get in at 6. 6-7 was the most productive hour of the day because general staff got in at 7. But my co-worker always wanted to talk right when we got in.

Woes of the open office

My only gripe with this is that I like to get in early in the mornings to get work done before everyone else comes in and the distractions start. There is one other person that comes in as early as I do, and he will occasionally come over and start a conversation and just won't stop. It doesn't matter if I'm wearing headphones or anything. He's a nice guy and I will sometimes go along with it, but other mornings when I have a lot to do it drives me crazy.

You owe it to them, and yourself, to just tell them that you're really busy right now and that you'll love to chat... later.

"So it says here in your performance review that your peers have consistently rated you as 'not being a team player'... what do you think we can do to improve upon this in the next evaluation period?"

We actually have an informal meeting in the mornings here. Nobody is required to attend or pay attention, and we generally talk about things in our lives like TV/games/etc or what we did over the weekend, and then move into what we're working on.

Management occasionally suggests that maybe the meetings are a bit too long, but I think everyone is generally okay with saying they need the meeting to end because they want/need to work on something.

I'm now wondering if I need to make it a little more clear that that's a thing they can say without it causing an issue.

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