INCESSANT CHATTER AT WORKPLACE | ADHD Information

It's tough when you are in a workplace where you don't feel comfortable with communication either upstream or downstream of your position.  Been there done that.

Before doing anything beyond what you've already done I'd try to have a closed door (probably when everyone else is gone to avoid being targeted) one-on-one with your supervisor.  Always it's best to try and focus on respecting the authority of your supervisor before going anywhere else.  Maybe you have little or no trust with your supervisor and if that's so maybe take it to the next level.

Although it's usually the last thing anyone wants to do - perhaps going above the head of your immediate supervisor might be in order.  If you cannot feel that your feelings are addressed it's important.  It's your right as well since it's in your companies written policy.  That gives you some power.

And speaking of "Who could ask for anything more?", how lucky am I for getting all of you to respond to my challenge at work?  Am in a grateful place, in the first place...

The earplugs?  Well, we are encouraged to listen to headphones because we mainly scan documents and do repetive data entry in our department.  It actually states that in the rules. And I have taken this up with the Gen. Office Mgr. and she finds fault with the Supervisor that works above me.  So I suppose I must do it again today.  Because the problems has not been addressed but for my flurry in leaving the workplace on Friday.  Like I had said, she knew the reason why because of what I had remarked.

At any time though, I had not expressed my ADHD and I plan not to because it is in the rules that you are not to chatter throughout the whole shift.  Besides that, I do not ever blame or use ADHD as something that deters.  I refuse to.  If I am having a challenge concerning it, I see that as just that, a challenge because then it means that the positive attributes of my ADHD are not being utilized.  And this is what the disruptive chatter does, threatens that.

We had just changed seating arrangements two weeks ago and I was as happy as a clam because I was put in a different room than the chatterboxes.  I wonder if it's an ADHD thing or a stim. med thing, but when I go to work, I enjoy doing so for the whole eight hours.  I love getting work done and having "high numbers".  I don't like to slack and I really do not mind if others do, I just do not want to be distracted by them. 

The recent changes at work have to be taken in stride because it is actually in the policies that we are not to "whine".  So I am trying to make it work.  But it is ridiculous when I am in a state and need to go home early. 

I plan to have a talk with the Supervisor today and I'll let you guys know what is going on.

 

Thank you!

 

 

 

Hey Everybody!

So here it goes...I work at a computer software company where we work in a casual office setting I am a male in his thirties.  I work with all women.  This really is not so much the issue as is the constant talking throughout the shift. Now I am as friendly as the next person and I do chat but I am very mindful of the fact that I am there to work.  Besides that, I suppose I have the particular ADHD symptom where I struggle to filter-out the peripheral sounds. 

There are other people at my work that take issue with this as well so over a month ago, I took this up with the Gen. Mgr of this office and rules were written down and everyone had to sign it.  One of the rules stated was the chatter during work hours.  This was addressed at a work meeting that was headed by my immediate supervisor but under the watch of the GM that I had initially brought this issue up with.

Things seemed to be okay for about two days and then it is back to the way it was.  In the work hours, as the chatter was again getting disruptive, I gave the supervisor a note reminding her and she gave me an uncomfortable smile and then lied to my co-workers stating that she had just recieved an email saying that our dept. was being too loud.  For the next ten minutes, my co-workers analyzed out loud how the superiours from the office upstairs could have known about the chatter.  It was then that I had decided that my immediate supervisor has the leadership stylings of Mickey Mouse, as she did nothing to stop the aforementioned anaytical discussion from taking place.

Last Friday I kept my mouth shut the whole day and did not even look at her because when I had, she would either duck her head down or avoid me, obvious to me, that she lacks the skill to quiet down the women.  I feel as though she is scared that she will not be liked as she is fairly new at her position.  By the end of the day, after hearing the talk the whole day, I just could not bear to finish the day, although there was only twenty or so minutes left.  I pulled her to the side and asked  her if I can leave as I cannot take the noise any longer.  She told me that I could with sort of a puzzled look on her face.

Now, friends, what should I do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GBFE2ommas39764.365150463I suggest wearing ear plugs.  Really! Not only would an employer look at you differently, but there's the legal aspect of "revealing" ADD/ADHD.  If an employer knows you have ADD, they are legally obligated to make whatever accomodations to help you perform your job.  They may even unknowingly present tasks that you can't perform and that could leave you without a job - something in this day noone can afford.  I have found that I don't need to tell my employer about my ADD.  It's not that debilitating and I've found ways of coping.  And I didn't even talk about the social stigma of having ADD.  Not everyone can deal with it or accept it.  Some people treat us as if we enjoy having this affliction.  Social settings where people know about my ADD could be fatal to my social life.  Fortunately, I have good friends who care and understand and support me.  I've had to be very careful as to who I tell and who I don't.

I know this kinda got off the original topic but we're here to help each other.  I'm finding that ADD people are more sensitive and that's totally a good thing!

Wow good luck.  I just got moved to a department where I am having to do alot of concentration and we have a chatterbox in the area that is hard to ignore.  The woman never shuts up.  Most of the girls know how to tune her out cause they are so use to her.  She is just crazy and loud and funny.  Sometimes it is her best atribute and sometimes it is her worst.  I was moved over there and the management won't do a darn thing about it and I am just hopeing that I will be able to deal with it.  I wanted the job but dreaded going there because of her.  I hope you post a positive solution.  In my experience where I work management is worthless going to when the person does their job and does it well nomatter who she effects in other negative ways.

Pheobe

I apreciate that, Pheobe.  For me, I really don't want to resort to saying that I have a medical condition that prevent me from filtering-out peripheral sounds.  Though it is true, if they would follow direction, heed the warnings from upper management, I can deal with it, you know?

I talk about my son having ADHD at work but I would never admit to being ADD myself because I don't want to be labeled.  I understand your concern.  I feel if I was to walk up to an employer and told him I am ADD, he/she would look at me differently and in an interview situation wouldn't hire me.  GBFE3ommas39764.3659375

Um...Ommas...don't know what to think about your reply to what I wrote in all seriousness.  I was reaching-out.  And I don't know what Supervisor that YOU are speaking of as I do not think that you get one if you are on SSI.  Might you be referring to your Case Worker, perhaps?