Dealing with "one-uppers"

[catnapper]

Thing is, its not chit-chat. We're being told info by the trainer (last week) or manager (this week) and she's constantly interrupting and taking things on long tangents. The rest of us are not learning anything because she's spreading her "knowledge". That test I got 100% on? She got less than 75%. She doesn't know anything, which is fine if she wants to learn - we don't all start out knowing everything - but most of us manage to keep quiet and actually learn instead of interrupting and interjecting our own opinion on everything!

The next two weeks are intense weeks of learning the entire product line, its specifications, and anything else I can't think of at the moment. We're not going to learn as much as we could with her stealing the show every ten minutes. I swear she's the female version of Cliff from Cheers!

Once again, I truly hope its just nerves and insecurity. Perhaps she knows she doesn't know anything and she's trying to "hide" that by sounding like she does know something. But in the end, its making her ignorance all the more apparent.

[borzoimom]

Thing is, its not chit-chat. We're being told info by the trainer (last week) or manager (this week) and she's constantly interrupting and taking things on long tangents. The rest of us are not learning anything because she's spreading her "knowledge". That test I got 100% on? She got less than 75%. She doesn't know anything, which is fine if she wants to learn - we don't all start out knowing everything - but most of us manage to keep quiet and actually learn instead of interrupting and interjecting our own opinion on everything!

The next two weeks are intense weeks of learning the entire product line, its specifications, and anything else I can't think of at the moment. We're not going to learn as much as we could with her stealing the show every ten minutes. I swear she's the female version of Cliff from Cheers!

Once again, I truly hope its just nerves and insecurity. Perhaps she knows she doesn't know anything and she's trying to "hide" that by sounding like she does know something. But in the end, its making her ignorance all the more apparent.

Hmm- its worse than I thought. .. Maybe the manager can nip these conversations 'in the bud' with like a " well that will be a subject later" or " shall we continue.."..
At least you are doing well- if you were struggling, I would suggest talking to one of the manager/instructors in private- However- since she isnt- well she maybe setting herself up for uh failure.. If the 'rants" have nothing to do with the subject- then the manager/instructor needs to correct it in whatever way. Sometimes- a silence filled room- with people looking at each other tells the others " opps I lost the group"... LOL.. I DONT KNOW.. lol. But I am trying to help.... idk..Maybe she just feels inadequate- and trying to point out other qualities she has.. idk- but it should not take over the "course of action"..

[Craftlady]

Management needs to address this issue ASAP if anyone is going to get trained. I'd start complaining to someone.

[Laura's Babies]

I hate those kind of people and usually avoid them. Where I use to work, we use to have manager meetings where people would constantly interrupt and make the meetings drag into one long ordeal where if they would shut up we could get out of there real quick. I get very annoyed with people who do that and soon, I am so annoyed that I would find those meetings just a waste of my time. Send me a memo!

In a class where you are suppose to be learning, I think I would have a hard time bitting my tongue and would end up saying something.