New guy on the team tells us he has a problem. I respond and he literally cuts me off mid sentence while I am explaining to him.

New Guy: I need access to this group so I can perform this action.

Me: I spoke with Bob yesterday after you left…

New Guy: Yeah but I need access to delete in this group.

Me: After you left, I spoke with Bob who gave approval to delete this entire group. So access to this group is moot.

New Guy: Oh.

Had you waited less than 10 seconds for me to finish my sentence, you would have allowed me to explain why you don’t need permissions. And you cut me off to say exactly what you already said. You didn’t cut me off to give me new information that was not already mentioned previously. I can somewhat understand if this was to give me new information, but no, you cut me off to repeat yourself after I gave you time to speak.

And he did it again shortly thereafter with another topic.

New Guy: They said they had issues on these servers where it wasn’t licensed.

Me: If you get the names of the users, you can check the logs and it will tell you which servers they were logged into and…

New Guy: They didn’t provide a list of users who logged in.

Me: That doesn’t matter because I was going to also say that you can run a script on all the servers and that will license any that aren’t currently licensed.

New Guy: Oh.

Like why? Why do people do this? Can you let someone finish their sentence before you blurt out whatever is on your mind? Have you no ability to hold onto a thought and bring it up when the moment presents itself for you to begin speaking? I may say something that answers the question you have. But you’ll never hear if you keep talking. You actually drag it out longer than it needs to be.

And it makes no sense considering we’re veterans and you’re asking us a question. You’re new here. You’re asking us for help.

I got to where I am today and I gained the knowledge I have because I let other people speak to tell me about what they know. And I even keep my mouth shut if it seems like I already know something, because you can learn new tips and tricks that may help you better understand the concept. And sometimes you may find that you were misunderstanding something. Or at the very least, you may find that someone else is doing something in the wrong or a convoluted way and that gives you the opportunity to be a teacher. And if it’s all information you already know, then fine. You wasted a minute of your life hearing something you already knew the answer to. Big deal.

I loathe teaching this guy new things and showing him new things because he does this all the time.

One of my other coworkers (who was visibly getting frustrated at watching me and himself getting interrupted) and I have talked about how this guy does this when we try to train him on a new concept. While explaining how to do something, he doesn’t wait until a moment presents itself for him to speak. He will just blurt out “I saw someone on Reddit do it this way.” And it’s so dumb because more than half the time, that explanation was flat out wrong, he misunderstood what was being done, or we do things differently for one reason or another. But you can’t just wait a few minutes for me to finish? You can’t just let someone else speak, especially when they’re showing you something that will help you in your overall career?! Maybe rando off Reddit was right, maybe they were wrong, or maybe we’re going to teach you a better way, one that has been improved upon since that comment was written…