I'm such a crusty old man. I'm basically a Vulcan who appreciates the value of silence, and gets irritated when people need to fill the air with pointless verbal discharges

It has been TWO HOURS and my coworker hasn't gone 2 minutes without talking about NOTHING

they just keep pivoting from point to point to point. I'm sorry, point is too generous. They are just narrating everything they thought, felt and did over the last two weeks

With no purpose other than to avoid silence

Also the power would be great for turning on people who are doing something stupid and just tell them not to do it.

I have expressed no interest in what they're saying, and if I don't acknowledge what they've said they lean over and go 'You know what I'm saying?'

I'm sure I've heard 'Ya know what I'm sayin'?' 100 times today

And when they're actually doing work and can't focus on their recounting of their life, they just narrate what is is they're working on.

'Oh huh, so this persons address was changed. And we sent a letter, but it came back as RTS. I wonder why that is? Did they move? I bet they moved. I'm going to resend the letter to the alternate contact. the alternate contact lives at another address. They live at-'

STOP TALKING