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My 50th class reunion is this summer. We had a fairly large class of around 600 and get a good turnout every 5 years for our class reunions. It seems like my popularity has increased with the females over that time. Probably because they married older guys who have died, became obese, or are using a walker.
My 50th class reunion is this summer. We had a fairly large class of around 600 and get a good turnout every 5 years for our class reunions. It seems like my popularity has increased with the females over that time. Probably because they married older guys who have died, became obese, or are using a walker.
Not at all. I was never even part of a group of friends (ever even now as an adult). I hung out w/ a couple of gals in HS, that's about it. There was a day occasionally when both of the people I hung out w/ were absent. I think I hung out w/ another girl I knew & her group that day. I knew vaarious people from my classses, but they had threir own grp of friends.
If there was a tier list of popularity.
A-tier is most popular.
B tier is fairly popular.
C tier means you're not popular, but not unpopular/disliked either.
D-F tier were the kids that were outcasts, few talked to, and in some schools they're bullied, though thankfully kids in my HS were relatively decent.
I was definitely in the C tier. C tier means that popular kids are acquaintances with you but not full-on friends. They admire aspects about you and will talk with you. They'd like to work with you in class projects and such. But they don't invite you out to parties and events either.
LOL - probably a D - although I still have a few friends from high school to this day.
But popularity - forget it. I marched to the beat of my own drum then, and still do.
There are only so many beautiful and special people to go around, who rule the roost from their top tier cliques. The rest of us were just serfs for the most part.
The only thing surprising is that "high school never ends". You think work is going to be different, but it is still cliques, popularity contests, the special people get special treatment, and the boss has favorites.
There are only so many beautiful and special people to go around, who rule the roost from their top tier cliques. The rest of us were just serfs for the most part.
The only thing surprising is that "high school never ends". You think work is going to be different, but it is still cliques, popularity contests, the special people get special treatment, and the boss has favorites.
High school never ends.
I don't think it ever ends for women. From school to the workplace, it's like no one can exist without establishing pecking orders. This is based on having 2 daughters, a wife, a class reunion that I put together every 5 years, and just general observations from workplace/personal relationships.
As a businessman for over 40 years one thing has always held true. My favorite customers were women, and my LEAST favorite customers were-----women. They're either wonderful and easy to deal with or mean, wicked and backbiting as all hell to deal with. Men just fall in the middle.
I haven't even clicked SUBMIT yet and I can feel the heat from what I just said.
HS was a place I had to go but not a place that I wanted to be. Certainly from a popularity standpoint I would put myself as a solid C maybe B-. I had crushes on guys that didn't know I existed and I had guys crushing on me that I wasn't interested in. I was definitely not in the crowd of the popular girls and was never invited to their sleep overs or fun parties. Yet, I had my own little crowd that I did things with - hanging out at the mall, going to movies, getting pizza, going bike riding, attending football games, going to sock hops and that sort of thing. I think I was familiar and known but not popular and well known if that makes sense. A bit shy and introverted actually.
I have never been a Queen Bee type although I'm fine with them. It is a lot of work to be a Queen Bee.
D-F I finally called it off at the end of my senior year when I did not have enough credits to graduate. I did however, go to a community college, talk to the admissions counselor there, explain the situation, was admitted and did then excel grade wise and eventually socially in college. One of my professors once told me "Well, some people are just not a good fit for high school"
Eventually graduated, went back, graduated again, and again.....grad school even.
I blame a lot of my high school problems on bad parenting, an educational system that allowed students like myself to fall through the cracks, so to speak... but when I broke away and did my own thing in college and life, I did quite well. Compared to where I am now vs where I was then, I think that I have done quite well.
OH and I never got that high school diploma, but never needed one.
There are only so many beautiful and special people to go around, who rule the roost from their top tier cliques. The rest of us were just serfs for the most part.
The only thing surprising is that "high school never ends". You think work is going to be different, but it is still cliques, popularity contests, the special people get special treatment, and the boss has favorites.
High school never ends.
I could not disagree more. There's no popularity contest. I work at a small 8 person family owned firm in a male dominated industry though so that may be the reason. The corporate environment may be more high school ish but I've never had to deal with it.
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