I can't stand all the workplace chit chat - Am I a jerk?

[my sign]

The older I get, the less patience I have for chit chat in the workplace.

When I'm at work I like to concentrate on doing a good job. I don't care about my co-worker's lawn or her girlfriend's wedding or the kid's first haircut or the latest recipe for baked beans or the Tupperware party, soccer practice, gymnastics, counter tops, flip flops, fishing poles, wading pools, hand bags...enough with all the mundane suburban minutia already!

I am ready to scream, what is wrong with me?

 

[johnny fettcakes]

you don't belong in a workplace. get a non-square job.

 

[been there done that]

nothing wrong with you. I too am fed up with all the crap chatter. We're not anti-social, we're just tired of mundane overexposure.

 

[rose_32008]

I am the same way.
I don't want to hear about kid-troubles, or husband-troubles, or their lastest tattoo (gross).
I sort of stick to myself at work, and try to avoid getting caught up in those conversations. In fact, I try to keep my personal life as far removed from my work life as possible. The reason is that just as sure as they are all gossiping in the kitchen about so-and-so's new haircut, or her bratty kids, they will be talking about YOU when your back is turned....never fails.
The all need to get to work anyway, and do what the boss is paying them to do.