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I've had situations where I've had to work with someone and we just were straight up not compatible human beings. Everything about her would get on my nerves and everything about me would make her uncomfortable. But still we smiled and did stupid office small talk and functioned like civilized human beings because you can't just "be honest" and go up to your coworker and explain how the looks on her face, tone of her voice, clothes she wears, her fake tan and even the wretched quality of her silly back tattoo offends your sensibilities.
You smile. And you say hi. How are you? It's Friday. Got any plans for the weekend? Not really.
Because that's how it works in cubicle hell. It's just how it works.
I've had situations where I've had to work with someone and we just were straight up not compatible human beings. Everything about her would get on my nerves and everything about me would make her uncomfortable. But still we smiled and did stupid office small talk and functioned like civilized human beings because you can't just "be honest" and go up to your coworker and explain how the looks on her face, tone of her voice, clothes she wears, her fake tan and even the wretched quality of her silly back tattoo offends your sensibilities.
You smile. And you say hi. How are you? It's Friday. Got any plans for the weekend? Not really.
Because that's how it works in cubicle hell. It's just how it works.
This is why I hope to NEVER return back to cubicle hell. But it looks like I just may be.
I don't know, but being civil and polite is one thing. Then there's just fake. Like my in-laws If I truly dislike someone, there's no situation where I am going to actively seek out for their company, and that's even to make small talk. I'm not going be inviting you out to lunch or going out with you for after work drinks. I worked with 2 of these types of 2 faces at my first job out of college. They would actively seek out everyone in the office to go out with them, chat it up all day, go out for lunches, then when the door was shut and the person wasn't there, they would spend an hour literally destroying the person behind their back. From the type of clothes they wore, how the person ate Just 2 straight up jealous witches. Both are still working at the company, in the same positions and the "worst" one out of the 2 is STILL single and living alone, but now living her life as "Best aunt in the world" on FB. Can you imagine no man would want this jem?
This is why I hope to NEVER return back to cubicle hell. But it looks like I just may be.
I don't know, but being civil and polite is one thing. Then there's just fake. Like my in-laws If I truly dislike someone, there's no situation where I am going to actively seek out for their company, and that's even to make small talk. I'm not going be inviting you out to lunch or going out with you for after work drinks. I worked with 2 of these types of 2 faces at my first job out of college. They would actively seek out everyone in the office to go out with them, chat it up all day, go out for lunches, then when the door was shut and the person wasn't there, they would spend an hour literally destroying the person behind their back. From the type of clothes they wore, how the person ate Just 2 straight up jealous witches. Both are still working at the company, in the same positions and the "worst" one out of the 2 is STILL single and living alone, but now living her life as "Best aunt in the world" on FB. Can you imagine no man would want this jem?
Of course I tend to say that the most sane place lies in the middle. And having lived all over the US, I've observed that people are more elaborately "fake" on the west coast, and more brutally "honest" on the east coast (sometimes even at the cost of casual politeness.) It is perhaps an over-generalization. I'm just saying that I experienced more of one end of that spectrum than the other, in my time spent on either side of the country.
I can get along with pretty much anyone. There are just the rare people out there that rub me the wrong way for no good reason at all. And much as I might dislike them, and kvetch about it to my husband, I would never speak ill of them to anyone that might interact with them in any way. If I talk about someone behind their back, it will be to someone who they've got almost no chance of ever even meeting in person. It's basically anonymous fussing, if I really need to vent, and is more about me than that other person. I fully recognize when my grievances are petty and ridiculous, on the (again--rare) occasion that it occurs.
So I won't walk up to them and "say to their face" that I simply can't stand them...but I also won't play games that will cause them harm or create drama or friction in the workplace. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Freinemies also happens a lot when you are young and run with a clique. A bunch of you hang out a lot but 2 of you don't like each other that much, but you are both there because of other people you are close too in the crew. So, perhaps y'all are civil when the crew is together but snap at each other sometimes, or talk crap when the other is not there. Common scenario.
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If I truly dislike someone, there's no situation where I am going to actively seek out for their company, and that's even to make small talk. I'm not going be inviting you out to lunch or going out with you for after work drinks. I worked with 2 of these types of 2 faces at my first job out of college. They would actively seek out everyone in the office to go out with them, chat it up all day, go out for lunches, then when the door was shut and the person wasn't there, they would spend an hour literally destroying the person behind their back. From the type of clothes they wore, how the person ate
Just 2 straight up jealous witches. Both are still working at the company, in the same positions and the "worst" one out of the 2 is STILL single and living alone, but now living her life as "Best aunt in the world" on FB. Can you imagine no man would want this jem
