Oversharing colleague

[Sheisannoyingme]

So I need to know if I am just grumpy 😆 and have taken a dislike to this colleague or if others would get annoyed?
I work for a large company with many different teams, it used to be that only my team were in our office space but with some restructuring etc we now share the space with another team. Our work requires alot of attention to detail and concentration and we are very much a 'quiet' office so we can concentrate, obviously there is the odd work/personal chit chat going on for 5 mins or somebody on a teams meeting but generally people are considerate and social chat is mostly at lunchtime/tea break times in the kitchen or communal areas.
One of the ladies now in our office does not stop talking in my opinion, she sits with a colleague from her team and they chat constantly, I can't tune them out so I listen to all their gossip, she had a major falling out with her friends of which I know all the details and she's having an affair with some bloke whose poor wife doesn't know what's going on, she chuckles about that. Then if she isn't chatting with colleague she's on teams meetings to different people telling them all the gossip 😆 I'm just bored of hearing about her life i know so much about it and i dont want too, maybe I'm jealous!
What does mumsnet think??

I think she doesn’t have enough work to do. Any way to fix that?

Well if she’s doing all that gossiping she can’t really be putting in a decent day’s work!

It’s fucking tedious to be subjected to this inane relentless twaddle.

sounds like it isn’t just her

Can you get headphones? Annoying but at least she's not chattering to you!!

I'd ask to move, tell your manager you're finding it hard to work in that environment.

@AbbeyGailsParty unfortunately even though we work for the same company I don't know anything about her workload etc, plus she is in a more senior role to me so I'm not really in a position to tell her to do some more work 😆

This reminds me of a colleague I had and I was so miserable in the end it was awful! We had the same role as a secretary but for different teams so we sat next to each other but our work wasn't connected. My team gave me everything to do and her team had not had a secretary before and hardly gave her anything to do, she was talk and talk and talk - and I'd just get more frustrated because I wanted to be polite but I had so much to do it was very stressful. Eventually I asked the office manager if I could be moved and she was amazing and made out it was for a different reason.

Noise cancelling headphones

she sounds bloody annoying & boring/tedious! You have my sympathy, but that doesn't help!!

you have to choose the option that works for you

Headphones This wouldn't work fir me.

ask her to stop yapping as you can't concentrate.

put up 'quiet workspace posters'

speak to your line manager

speak to her line manager

lose your shit

put your options in order & work on them
until you get it resolved!!

best wishes.

you could always mention asking her AP I he doesn't mind the whole bloidy office knowing. Bonus points if he or his partner work for the company

Don't stick passive aggressive posters up, speak to your manager about the difficulty of working in a noisy environment.

I have this. She screeches all day long. She's announced things about herself in a public office that a close friend would only tell you discreetly. Constant attention seeking.
I combine ear plugs with headphones. I have told them that it's not personal, just that I find open plan difficult.
I asked to move desk four times. However, it took privately telling my line manager the real reason for the request. (We have a totally batshit seat hierarchy which hopefully you do not have). That was finally accommodated and it's a lot better. We also have hybrid working and sometimes I could rearrange my days to not be in at the same time as her, if any of the above could work?

This. In succession or possibly all at once.

id listen