Plays Well With Others

You talkin’ to me?

Has this ever happened to you? You are going ’bout your business when someone you don’t know says ‘hi’ to you and you don’t answer because you’re like, this person can’t be talking to me. Ugh, that was my morning.

See, where I work, I can go an entire day without having anyone chat with me. I’m not talking about working in complete silence, because besides my radio, I’ve got my supervisor coming over every ten minutes explaining yet another job to me. I’m talking about office chat. Someone coming over and actually asking about your weekend, or wanting to know a little more about you as a person. Since I’ve worked here no one’s asked me a damn thing. They don’t even know I’m getting married in a month.


Anyhow, at my last job, people would come over on a daily basis and sit in my guest chair and just chat about how things are going, what their weekend plans are, and other general office banter. It was nice. It broke up the day a bit, and gave me the sense that if people are coming over to chat with me they must like me a little. Not here. No one talks to anyone. Well, hardly anyone. Maybe it’s just my group. I hear other groups chatting and planning things, but mine doesnt do anything together. Oh, strike that. If someone has a birthday, they put a greeting card in a manila envelope and pass it around for us to sign. Then we check our name off the list once we’ve signed it and pass it to the next person. This way we dont have to actually leave our desks to wish the person a happy birthday, or even stop working, we just sign the card and pass it on. It shows we care. NOT.

At the last job there were parties thrown. Everyone would get up from their desk and we’d bring a cake over and have a celebration. It’s different here. And so when someone says hi, it catches me off guard.

I was standing at the copier making, well, copies and this girl comes in and says “hi, how are you?”. It took me a few seconds to respond, because my first thought was, “she isnt talking to me, I dont know her, but there’s no one else in here, so I better say hi back”. I eventually did. Just startled the hell out of me. Hardly anyone talks around here and for a perfect stranger to greet me, ack. It didnt lead to any kind of conversation or anything, just a hi and a hi back.

I miss my old job …

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