Anyone else just straight up not like the people you work with?
My managers are fine for the most part.
However the other analysts I work with are pretty fake with kinda lame personalities. Just definitely not people I would ever chill with outside of work. I didn't get to know them too well before covid but the feeling was definitely mutual. They all seem to be a bit more close together (just through observations on group chat) and I feel like an outsider at times. This has only been tolerable since we're remote but not sure it will be when we're back in the office.
Has anyone gone through the same? How did you navigate? Did you end up leaving or just keep your head down and work?
I just wrote that I hated everyone I worked with and deleted it because it's not true. I didn't hate them. That would have been more interesting. There was nothing to hate. I was incapable of feeling any strong emotion towards being so bland and lifeless. I felt like I was dealing with mediocre AI in a video game. I felt like I was in GTA and I would imagine their heads exploding into confetti as they walked by my desk sometimes and I stared at them blankly in my half-lying-down slumped position with my headphones in listening to podcasts. They weren't even real humans to me. I envied that they seemed to not see the problem with the nature of their existence and everything going on around us. I wished I could have just gone through my day like that. But I also pitied them and their pathetic lives. They had risen to their highest form already. Their highest form was in line with basically my rock bottom.
Gymbro was my boy and we still text now and again. I had to have one boy because I like to talk shit on company AIM while I listen to podcasts and read articles pasted to Word in plain text form. But even his mind was so bland. Like his entire life was movies and video games. And he just went to that shitty job so he could go home and spend all his time doing that. Didn't make sense to me how your soul could permit that. I envy it because being a video game recluse sounds like a pretty chill life in this ridiculous society. In Japan, they're not even recluses. These people are like a valid (although mostly infertile) segment of the population with entire city blocks and 8-floor shopping malls dedicated to them. They walk around watching anime on their phones. It's like... wow.
damn I thought I was the only one
I figured that shit out at my first internship bro and never looked back. Have a bunch of work shit open and the bottom half of the screen is Word. Top half I change up every hour or so. With this system and a bookmark backlog of articles, I can stay occupied all day while only having my screen be visibly non-work for seconds at a time. Seconds.
Wanna hear something sad? My wife's first teacher job blocked them from going to any real sites at work. I used to come in hella early anyway to work on my ebay business on the clock, so I'd spend like 30 min clipping page after page of Vice articles into word, PDFing it, and emailing her like 40 pages of full page Vice articles with pictures and shit so she'd have something to do during lunch to distract her from how shitty her days were back then. And then when people started rolling in, I had hundreds of articles and shit I wnsted to read bookmarked always. Still do. And I just run through it slowly. So people would start coming in and I'd switch over to my own articles. lol. Fuck corporate america
Yes. There is this other intern that I do not like at all. Everyone else is chill though, not hardos like expected at first.
What is it about them that bugs you?
Actually made a post about it, "Would you fight a girl" (no I'm not fighting her for real) she's just a fake bitch, blames me and another intern in front of our manager for petty things. She's a 20 year old Karen.
Also for you, it may just be WFH that makes you feel like an outsider and that the others are fake and lame. Once things go back to normal maybe you'll connect a little more with them.
That is very possible. But I did spend a few months with them before covid so I have kind of made up my mind on them. I just can't get over the fake/try hard attitudes some of them have.
Yeah, try hards are never fun to be around. Don't try too hard to fit in, can't force friendships. Over the last few months at my internship, I've just been doing the best possible job I can with the work that's given to me and that has not gone unnoticed by the people who matter. Regardless of what Karen says or does.
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