It's work

posted July 20th, 2017 at 8:31 PM

I go to work for predominantly the paycheque. The people are really lacking. I look for some nugget of goodness and I found it in one of my immediate team. The rest are all completely introverted and best suited to work from home and not in the office with other humans. Then you have the colleagues that have a conversational range of 2 notes: vacation and the next stat holiday. Vacating their life is the most joyous thing to them. I miss my colleagues of years past, where I would wander into the coffee room, and these guys were laughing hysterically. They could talk about anything and we'd end up cracking up and felt like we didn't want to leave the coffee room. Didn't want the lunch time to end. Fast forward to now, and if I'm in the same room with these people, who literally make zero eye contact and want to be invisible, every second is too long being near them. I tried with these people: asking about their kids, asking how was their weekend, how are they feeling since they were sick, giving them genuine compliments… but they are conversational black holes. I totally miss the hilarious random shit that I used to talk about with the old crew. I realize now how much those guys shared: their thoughts, their reactions, their perceptions. My current colleagues are the emotional equivalent of a clenched sphincter. So… biweekly direct deposit it is.

5 Comments

hmm

Jul 21, 2017 at 12:51pm

i go to work to make money. period. i have my own friends, don't need to find them at my place of employment, especially of the opposite sex. that would be sexual harassment now

Can we Trade?

Jul 21, 2017 at 2:49pm

Your colleagues sound like my kind of people. I don't know where you work, but I think I would fit right in. I keep to myself, do my job, and go home. Like @hmm, I go to work to make money, that's it. In fact, I kind of hate it when I see people standing around socializing at work. We are paid to get stuff done, not stand around and shoot the shit. Do that stuff at a bar after work!

tired of people maligning introverts

Jul 21, 2017 at 2:59pm

And the reason for more people being anti-social is due to the internet and everybody living their lives on it.

hmm

Jul 21, 2017 at 4:18pm

such a strange and varied world... I find it's people like you who are insufferable. Always seeking attention, which is just a symptom of low self esteem. Never knowing when to mind there own business, always needing to talk and joke and socialize.

Some folks are just quieter, they prefer keeping to themselves. And i'd rather be around these types over those like you, any day of the working week.