MidwestStudent wrote: This is a hard one for sure.  I've in the past spent a little too much time talking to co-workers, which is of course unproductive.  So I was thinking of telling them that, and that I have since then recognized that it's negative on both my co-worker and I's productivity, so I try to confine chit-chatting as much as politely possible to personal time. Is that a good one or is it too damning?

Just to be on the safe side, it is probably better to use something more innocent than this