New Job Nightmare: The Guy Who Won't Stop Talking About His Cat

So I started my new job at this tech company about two weeks ago. It’s one of those open-concept spaces with all these communal tables, and everyone’s so into their startup culture that it feels like walking into a hipster coffee shop with no caffeine available. Now, there's this guy who sits near me, let's call him Jack, and he won't stop talking about his cat. I mean, literally every chance he gets, it’s “Did you know cats can actually predict earthquakes? Did you catch the episode of my favorite TV show that had a cat in it?” It’s like he lives on some kind of bizarre, pet-themed parallel universe where everything relates back to his feline companion. I tried at first. I nodded along politely and even asked him about one of those