I’m a very quiet introverted person. At work, I tend to only talk if people talk to me. My manager talks to me a lot though, and it’s all stuff unrelated to work like all about her daughter, how she met her husband, gossip about people in the office. I’m polite and engage in conversation but sometimes she talks at me for like 20 mins at a time and I’m trying to concentrate. But last year she set up a 1:1 with me and said I seem distracted. I asked her what she meant by that, and she said that I am too chatty, and that work is not a place for gossip or socialising and that my other colleague has reported me for talking too much. I was utterly confused as she was another colleague who always starts chatting to me As a result, I just became even more quiet. Only speaking when spoken to to avoid getting in trouble again.…