My last job had no shortage of neurotic and conniving wack jobs. Frankly, I think I'm a pretty tolerant guy, but engaging in office politics and manipulation of others is something I have no time for at all. The workplace had a lot of good sides but the problems that resulted from people trying to manipulate each other for stupid, selfish aims was poisonous.
Currently, I figure my coworkers think I'm kind of a weirdo because on the first day of working together at lunch I just told them I had no patience for socializing in the office and had no intention of joining them as I see lunch rooms and cafeterias as hives of gossip. I'm otherwise friendly, but I just view my job as a place to work now and not a place to invest myself in personally.
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"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
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