[mrhappyunhappy]

I worked in a hallway cubicle at a law office for a while. Once a day an attorney would start chatting with another behind my back and would stay there for an hour. I got so annoyed at some point that I stopped working for the entirety of their conversation any time someone started talking. I felt wrong for taking up company time but these people did not respect my space. At some point I also started just turning around and looking at them while they talked. A few got the point and left but others just kept on talking even after making eye contact.

[carlivar]

That seems really passive aggressive. Why not just ask them to have their conversation elsewhere?

[AstralStorm]

That almost never works in software jobs as workplaces are not mobile.

Move a big desktop with hardware? Good luck. Try to access local state from a laptop? Does not work or is inconvenient. Multiply by number of people talking.

Not talking also kills pair programming.

[golergka]

Why would he need to take his workplace anywhere? It's the talking people who need to take their conversation someplace else.

[mrhappyunhappy]

Tried that first of course.