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Looking for both a journalistic and perhaps playful term. In a journalistic sense, how would I describe a CEO figure who holds a company meeting and the employees are either annoyed, bored, or rolling their eyes the entire time he talks.
In a playful sense, a similar personality walks into my office, but is the context is such that I can make the comment aloud, such as, "oh god, there goes my chance to get any work done", but in a declarative sense: "here comes the ..."
Bore would fit.
: one that causes boredom: as
a : a tiresome person
b : something that is devoid of interest
You can find in other dictionaries and it is a journalistic term as well.
Whether or no a banker ought to be murdered for being a bore, we all know what we mean when we say that he is a bore.
[The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Vol. 36: The Illustrated London News By G. K. Chesterton (2011)]
Also, there is a slang word that may fit: melter
Someone who continuely annoys or irritates someone through speech (usually), this is "melting" them.
A windbag is a person who talks at length but has little of use to say. (An alternate word would be gasbag.) There are a lot of synonyms for windbag that are available as general reference (here and here, as examples). Windbag is a critical or insulting word.
Prattler might be the most serious synonym that you can use in a journalistic setting. It still is a critical adjective.
Chatterbox might fit in between these two.
If you want to be less unflattering, then talkative and overly talkative might work.
A word often used in this specific instance - to describe such a person from upper management, is Seagull.
It is because they fly in, make a lot of noise, steal your food, cover you in muck and fly out again.
How about "Here comes good old prolixity!"? or 'prolixity incarnate'?
Alright - how about 'Here come the old windbag.'?
I usually refer to such people differently based on their gender... Men who I find myself avoiding are generally the holy rollers or speech spillers. Women who are abraisive or annoying are mostly the princesses or queen babies. I use two words... Single word descriptions are more offensive on average.j
I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking for. annoying, boring and unbelievable are not synonymous. And, up until the very last sentence of your question, it seemed that you could be asking for an adjective.
If an adjective is acceptable to you, consider the ones I mentioned above, and:
causing annoyance or anger
irritate: To cause (someone) to feel impatient or angry; annoy: a loud, bossy voice that irritates listeners.
tending to annoy or cause ill will; overly aggressive: an abrasive personality.
angry and aggressive : feeling or showing readiness to fight
difficult or impossible to believe
irritating or unpleasant to one’s feelings.
annoying or vexatious.
Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) offers cubicle vampire; see also this.
